Disney Adventures

Disney Adventures was a monthly digest-sized magazine published by the Walt Disney Company from 1990 to 2007.

Overview[]

Like DuckTales Magazine before it, Disney Adventures was targeted mainly at grade-school kids, but contained items of general interest to fans of Disney productions, as well as fans of various entertainment media, alongside calendars, comics, polling and other features. Although its trial issue (sent to fans who sent in proofs of purchase from Kellog's Corn Flakes cereal) and the first two regular issues billed it as "The Official Magazine of the Disney Afternoon", this changed to "The Magazine for Kids" for subsequent issues, and it tended to be an all-inclusive magazine, often featuring information about films by rival companies, such as DreamWorks and Nickelodeon.

Comics based on Disney cartoons, including DuckTales, were a regular part of the magazine throughout its 17-year run, especially in the 1990s. The comics were originally spread throughout the magazine's pages, but starting in May 1992 (Vol. 2, #7), they were condensed into a single section, dubbed the "Comics Zone" in 1995.

Although DuckTales stopped airing new episodes a couple of months after the magazine debuted, DuckTales comics would end up enjoying the longest run of any of the Disney Television Animation adaptions to appear in the magazine. The last regular DuckTales story to appear in Disney Adventures was in November 1994 (Vol. 5, #1 – the 50th issue of the magazine, not counting the trial issue). A previously unpublished story later appeared in the February 1996 (Vol. 6, #4), and one last story appeared in the magazine's final issue in 2007 (Vol. 17, #10).

List of stories[]

32 DuckTales stories (one of which wasn't produced as such) were published in Disney Adventures during its 17 years run.

Many of the earliest stories were reprinted in the digest series Disney's Colossal Comics Collection, which ran for ten issues from September 1991 to May 1993, and three stories were reprinted in the "Cartoon Tales" series of trade paperback.

In 2010, Boom! Studios reprinted two Disney Adventures stories in Uncle Scrooge. Like with several stories reprinted by Boom!, the dialogue was inexplicably rewritten.

Title	Pages	Writer	Artist	Issue	Reprint(s)	Note(s)
The Chaos Coin Catastrophe	24		Giuseppe Dalla Santa	Number 0	DCCC #1
The Relic Racket	10	Bob Foster, Marv Wolfman	Giuseppe Dalla Santa	Number 0	DCCC #2
The Dream Scheme	8	Bob Langhans	Maurizio Amendola	Vol 1, #1	DCCC #1
Criminal Convention	24	Bobbi J.G. Weiss	Giuseppe Dalla Santa	Vol 1, #2	DCCC #2
The Littlest Gizmoduck	8	Chris Weber, Karen Willson	Roberto Santillo	Vol 1, #2	"Cartoon Tales: Dime After Dime"; Uncle Scrooge #393
The Family's Shrewd	8	Chris Weber, Karen Willson	Paolo Mottura	Vol 1, #3	DCCC #1
Lucky to Be Smart	16	Craig Miller	Maurizio Amendola	Vol 1, #5	"Cartoon Tales: Dime After Dime"
Dime After Dime	24	Michael T. Gilbert	Jaime Diaz Studio	Vol 1, #6	"Cartoon Tales: Dime After Dime"
Deep Sea Sewage	8	David Schwartz	Paolo Mottura	Vol 1, #7	DCCC #3
Mini Magica	8	Bob Langhans	Andrea Freccero	Vol 1, #7	DCCC #3
Grief at the Reef	16	Bob Langhans	Giuseppe Dalla Santa	Vol 1, #8	DCCC #1
Honey, I Shrunk the Ducks	16	Bobbi J.G. Weiss	Giorgio Cavazzano	Vol 1, #9	DCCC #3
Slugga Bubba	8	Len Levitt	Valerio Held	Vol 1, #11	DCCC #7
The Jubilee Coup	4	Jack Sutter	Antoni Gil-Bao	Vol 1, #12	DCCC #7	"false" DuckTales story starring the Beagle Boys, produced in Denmark in the late 1970s.
Dr. Duck and Scrooge McHyde	8	Buzz Dixon	Paolo Mottura	Vol 1, #12	DCCC #8
Webby's Diary: My Biggest Vacation	8	Janet Gilbert	Giuseppe Dalla Santa	Vol 2, #1
Big Top Big Shot	8	Janet Gilbert	Jaime Diaz Studio	Vol 2, #2
Beagleology 101	8	Janet Gilbert	Jaime Diaz Studio	Vol 2, #3
Dime Crime	7	Bob Langhans	Roberto Santillo	Vol 2, #4	DCCC #10
Return to the Moon	16	John Blair Moore	Jaime Diaz Studio	Vol 2, #5
Mrs. Beakley's Secret Love	16	Janet Gilbert	Giorgio Cavazzano, Sandro Zemolin	Vol 2, #6
The Dough That Devoured Duckburg	8	Janet Gilbert	Roberto Santillo	Vol 2, #7
The Two Musketeers	23	Janet Gilbert	Giuseppe Dalla Santa	Vol 2, #8
A Switch in Time	11	Doug Murray	Jaime Diaz Studio	Vol 3, #1	Uncle Scrooge #393
For the Love of Pete	25	Janet Gilbert	Giuseppe Dalla Santa	Vol 3, #2
Webby's Field Trip	8	Janet Gilbert	Giuseppe Dalla Santa	Vol 3, #4
The Power of the Pyramids	8	Cherie Wilkerson	Alberto Lavoradori	Vol 3, #11
The Disappearin' Bullion Blues	8	Cherie Wilkerson	Alberto Lavoradori	Vol 3, #12
A Beagle Badtime Story	2	Janet Gilbert	Jaime Diaz Studio	Vol 4, #6
The Legend of the Chaos God, Part 4: Tow for Broke	13	Bobbi J.G. Weiss, David Cody Weiss	Jaime Diaz Studio	Vol 5, #1
Uncensored Scrooge	16	Doug Gray	Jaime Diaz Studio	Vol 6, #4		Originally intended for Vol 3, #8.
The Dream Scheme, Part 2	3	Landry Q. Walker	Eric Jones	Vol 17, #10

Cover galleries[]

Magazine covers[]

During it's first year, four issues of the magazine, including the trial issue, featured DuckTales covers. Occasional later covers also featured DuckTales characters.

Reprint covers[]

In addition to the Cartoon Tales TPB, the covers of the first four issues of Disney's Colossal Comics Collection also featured the DuckTales ducks.

External links[]

Disney Adventures at the INDUCKS

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