Museum ‘Plane Crazy’ to Auction Mickey Mouse?

The International Museum of Cartoon Art in Boca Raton, Fla., says it is reluctantly auctioning its prize exhibit--purportedly the first drawings of Mickey Mouse--to help pay debts.

The museum will offer the drawings and hundreds of other items for sale to defray nearly $2 million in debt, most owed to a bank that holds the museum’s mortgage.

The storyboard from the 1928 Walt Disney cartoon “Plane Crazy” was the first drawing of Mickey Mouse, according to Mort Walker, the museum’s founder. The storyboard is valued at between $3.2 million and $3.7 million.