Editing Pete (Disney) (section)

==Comics==
In [[Disney comics]], Pete is consistently depicted as a professional criminal, who often teams up with Mickey Mouse enemies [[Sylvester Shyster]], [[Eli Squinch]], or [[the Phantom Blot]].

In a promotional strip for the [[Mickey Mouse (comic strip)|''Mickey Mouse'' comic strip]] in early 1930, he was announced as "Terrible Tom – The Vile Villain", but this name was never used afterwards.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Gottfredson |first1=Floyd |title=Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse |volume=1: Race to Death Valley |date=2011 |publisher=Fantagraphics Books |location=Seattle, Washington |isbn=9781606994412 |page=20}}</ref> In the April 24, 1930 strip, Mickey refers to him as "Pegleg Pete", and the name sticks.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Gottfredson |first1=Floyd |title=Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse |volume=1: Race to Death Valley |date=2011 |publisher=Fantagraphics Books |location=Seattle, Washington |isbn=9781606994412 |page=28}}</ref> Pete first appeared in the [[Disney comics#Comic strips|''Mickey Mouse'' comic strip]] on April 21, 1930, in the story "Mickey Mouse in Death Valley".<ref name=DeathValley>{{cite book |last1=Gottfredson |first1=Floyd |title=[[Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse]] |volume=1: Race to Death Valley |date=2011 |publisher=Fantagraphics Books |location=Seattle, Washington |isbn=9781606994412|pages=19–70}}</ref> This appearance is the first time since the ''Alice Comedies'' that Pete has a [[pegleg]].<ref name=whole-story>{{cite book |last1=Becattini |first1=Alberto |title=Disney Comics: The Whole Story |date=2016 |publisher=Theme Park Press |isbn=978-1683900177 |page=8}}</ref> [[Floyd Gottfredson]] occasionally committed goofs, with the pegleg switching from Pete's right leg to his left one. In the August 26, 1930 strip, Pete's peg swaps from right to left between one panel to the next. Pete's pegleg also appears on the left in the July 11 strip, and for the week of September 3 to 9.<ref name="DeathValley" /> In Gottfredson's story "The Mystery at Hidden River" (1941–42), the pegleg disappeared, with Pete having two normal legs: when Mickey expressed surprise at this, Pete described one of his legs as a new, "streamlined, modern" artificial leg.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Gottfredson |first1=Floyd |title=Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse |volume=6: Lost in Lands of Long Ago |date=2014 |publisher=Fantagraphics Books |location=Seattle, Washington |isbn=978-1606997826 |page=185}}</ref>

In 1944, Walt Disney decided to retire the character from the shorts; comics historian Alberto Becattini writes that this was "partly because he was concerned that it seemed to be a case of mocking the afflicted, partly because the animators could never remember which leg was the wooden one."<ref name=whole-story /> Pete also left the comic strip for a few years; his last appearance was in "The World of Tomorrow", which ran from July to September 1944.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Gottfredson |first1=Floyd |title=Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse |volume=8: The Tomorrow Wars |date=2015 |publisher=Fantagraphics Books |location=Seattle, Washington |isbn=978-1606998687}}</ref>

However, Pete continued to appear in the comic books – in 1945, he was the heavy in the Donald Duck comic "Frozen Gold" (''[[Disney comics#Four Color|Four Color]]'' #62, January 1945)<ref>{{cite web |title=Frozen Gold |url=https://inducks.org/story.php?c=W+OS+++62-02 |website=Inducks |access-date=11 August 2019}}</ref> and in Mickey's "The Riddle of the Red Hat" (''Four Color'' #79, August 1945).<ref>{{cite web |title=The Riddle of the Red Hat |url=https://inducks.org/story.php?c=W+OS+++79-01 |website=Inducks |access-date=11 August 2019}}</ref> He surfaced again in a number of "giveaway" comics in 1946 and 1947 – "Mickey's Christmas Trees" (''Donald and Mickey Merry Christmas'', 1946), "Donald and the Pirates" (Cheerios Premium #W1, 1947), "Mickey Mouse and the Haunted House" (Cheerios Premium #W4, 1947), "Mickey Mouse at the Rodeo" (Cheerios Premium #X4, 1947), "Mickey Mouse's Helicopter" (''Boys and Girls March of Comics Giveaway'' #8, 1947) – and came back to the comic books in "Mickey Mouse and the Submarine Pirates" (''Four Color'' #141, March 1947).

With Pete still appearing in comic books, Gottfredson brought him back to the comic strip in "Pegleg Pete Reforms" (March 1947).<ref>{{cite book |last1=Gottfredson |first1=Floyd |title=Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse |volume=9: Rise of the Rhyming Man |date=2016 |publisher=Fantagraphics Books |location=Seattle, Washington |isbn=978-1606999318}}</ref> His last appearance in the strip was in "The Isle of Moola-La" (April–October 1952).<ref>{{cite book |last1=Gottfredson |first1=Floyd |title=Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse |volume=11: Mickey vs Mickey |date=2017 |publisher=Fantagraphics Books |location=Seattle, Washington |isbn=978-1683960188}}</ref> From then on, he made many more appearances in the comic books.

In ''Mickey Mouse in Death Valley'' and in several subsequent storylines, Pete was portrayed as Sylvester Shyster's henchman. From 1934, he gradually started to work on his own. Sometimes, Pete also teams up with other bad guys in the Disney universe, such as [[Scrooge McDuck]]'s enemies (the [[Beagle Boys]] and [[Magica De Spell]]), [[Mad Madam Mim]], [[Captain Hook (Disney)|Captain Hook]], and the [[Evil Queen (Disney)|Evil Queen]]. In various comics stories, his right-hand man is a skinny, bearded criminal named [[Mickey Mouse universe#Scuttle|Scuttle]]. In Italian comics, his girlfriend [[Mickey Mouse universe#Trudy Van Tubb|Trudy]] (Trudy Van Tubb) is his frequent partner-in-crime. His cousin the "[[mad scientist]]" [[Mickey Mouse universe#Portis|Portis]] is another, less frequent, accomplice.

In the 1943 comic strip story ''Mickey Mouse on a Secret Mission'', he was an agent of [[Nazi Germany]], working as the henchman of [[Gestapo]] spy Von Weasel. In the 1950 comic strip story ''The Moook Treasure'', he is even portrayed as the [[Lavrentiy Beria|Beria]]-like deputy chief of intelligence in a totalitarian state on the other side of the [[Iron Curtain]].<ref>{{cite web|first=Ignacio|last=Fernández |url=https://www.tebeosfera.com/documentos/el_impacto_de_la_revolucion_rusa_en_el_comic_book.html |title=El impacto de la Revolución rusa en el comic book |work=Tebeosfera, tercera época, 5. Asociación Cultural Tebeosfera, Sevilla |date=21 December 2017 |language=es}}</ref>

His name in Italy has remained "Pietro Gambadilegno" ("Pegleg Peter"), or simply "Gambadilegno" ("Pegleg") even though it has been a long time since he was actually depicted with a pegleg in either comics or animated cartoons. In an Italian story by [[Romano Scarpa]], "Topolino e la dimensione Delta" ("Mickey Mouse and the Delta Dimension", first published in 1959), Pete briefly removes his artificial leg, revealing his old foot-high pegleg underneath. Usually, Gambadilegno is depicted as the antagonist of [[Mickey Mouse universe#Chief O'Hara|Chief Seamus O'Hara]] ("commissario Adamo Basettoni") and [[Mickey Mouse universe#Detective Casey|Detective Casey]] ("ispettore Manetta") and is either a rival or a partner-in-crime of the [[Phantom Blot]] ("Macchia Nera").

Pete returned in the 2013 short ''[[Get a Horse!]]'', and was animated as having a peg left leg.