Among the earliest talking entries in the Aesop's Fables series, and the first where the Van Beuren studio employs a boy-and-girl mouse team that closely resembles Mickey and Minnie.
Sure but they were actually created before Mickey and Minnie. They just got redesigns a little later on to be more in line with the new designs Mickey was inspiring anyway
Also Disney doesn't fucking own mouse caricatures! There were mouse designs like this before Mickey. Disney really has brainwashed us all into their cult.