Sylvester Shyster

Sylvester Shyster is a male anthropomorphic rat.
==Description==
A recurring foe of Mickey Mouse, Sylvester Shyster is a crooked lawyer who started out as a normal enough conman but soon graduated to full-on villainy after Mickey Mouse exposed his intentions of embezzling his client Minnie Mouse's inheritance. Shyster often works with Peg-Leg Pete, in which was he acts as the duo's brain while Pete is the brawn.
==Behind the scenes==
Created for Mickey Mouse in Death Valley, Sylvester Shyster became a recurring antagonist of the early daily Mickey Mouse strips of the 1930's, though he had largely disappeared by the 40's. Early artwork by Win Smith depicted Shyster with a hairless tail like a rat, Sylvester Shyster in "Race to the South Seas" on The Feathery Society though his species would later become somewhat ambiguous. He was redesigned as a bald dognose in The Thunderbolt Machine in 1954, drawn by Tony Strobl, but this redesign didn't stick.
Due to the early Mickey Mouse strips' status as "classics", after a handful of appearances in Italian comics, Shyster was more recently revived starting in the 90's by such writers as David Gerstein.
A lawyer called Sylvester Shyster and somewhat resembling the character's classic design was used by Carl Barks in Race to the South Seas. It is unknown if this is merely a coincidence, or if Barks was purposefully reusing the character.
Interestingly, in the French translation of The Horseradish Story, Chisel McSue was identified as Sylvester Shyster, though that fact is obviously non-canonical.
Win smith sylvester sketch.jpg|Original concept sketch by Win Smith.
===Notes & References===
Category:Lawyers
Category:Villains
Category:Antagonists
Category:Main Characters
Category:American characters
Category:Thieves
Category:Conmen
Category:Rats
Category:Characters
Category:Males
Category:Dogs