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4 unusual facts about Toby Tyler


Alice Estes Davis

Walt hired her as a costume designer for the 1960 Disney feature Toby Tyler.

Toby Tyler

For the musician previously known as 'Toby Tyler', see Marc Bolan.

Toby Tyler; or, Ten Weeks with a Circus

Toby Tyler is a "bad boy" novel, meant to teach a lesson what happens to boys who do bad things; other examples include George W. Peck's Peck's Bad Boy (1883), Thomas Bailey Aldrich's The Story of a Bad Boy (1870), and Mark Twain's Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876).

The original book contains 30 pen and ink drawings by W. A. Rogers (1854-1931).



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Penet remailer

In August 1996, a major British newspaper, The Observer, published an article describing the Penet remailer as a major hub of child pornography, quoting a United States FBI investigator named Toby Tyler as saying that Penet was responsible for between 75% and 90% of the child pornography being distributed on the Internet.