Bobo the Baby Elephant Grows Up

Bobo the Baby Elephant Grows Up 
History 
Bobo was first featured in a self-titled storyline in the Mickey Mouse newspaper comic strip. In the story, Mickey mistakenly purchases Bobo at an auction. Eli Squinch, also making his first appearance in that story, convinces Mickey that he is Bobo's rightful owner. However, Eli actually intends to use Bobo to run his sawmill to save on electricity, using a treadmill which had already killed two horses. Mickey and Horace Horsecollar stall Eli's repossession of Bobo until the baby pachyderm discovers his mother is in a visiting circus. Bobo runs away and is reunited with his mother. 

 Bobo's only animated appearance   was in 1936's Mickey's Elephant.   Here, he is given to Mickey by the   Rajah of Gahboon. Disney had   planned to make Bobo into a   recurring character, but nothing ever   came of the idea. Storyboard   sketches of a planned cartoon   featuring Bobo, titled Spring   Cleaning, were printed in the book   Mickey Mouse: The Floyd   Gottfredson Library - Volume 3:   Showdown at Inferno Gulch.