Disney Christmas Story

Disney Christmas Story was an annual newspaper comic strip created by Frank Reilly and distributed by King Features Syndicate, that ran every holiday season from 1960 to 1987, always ending on Christmas Eve. As the title suggests, each story was a Christmas story starring characters from Disney animated films, often multiple films, usually with the characters having to save Christmas when one of the villains (or some of the villains teaming up) attempts to ruin it. Although there was very little continuity between storylines, several characters appeared in multiple storylines, such as the Seven Dwarfs being regular helpers to Santa Claus. The strip did not feature any appearances by Mickey Mouse and/or Donald Duck, though Ludwig Von Drake guest-starred in the 1962 story arc, and the Beagle Boys were the featured villains in the 1971 arc.
Frank Reilly wrote every story in the strip for its first fifteen years, with his last storyline, "Santa and the Pirates", coming after his retirement in 1975. Carl Fallberg, who also wrote for Disney's Treasury of Classic Tales comic strip, took over the strip from that point onward and wrote every story from 1976 to 1984, as well as the last installment of the series in 1987. For 1985 and 1986's stories, Floyd Norman handled the writing duties.
After the strip's initial run ended in 1987, it was revived as Disney Holiday Story, which ran each holiday season from 1992 to 1997. Unlike its predecessor, the Disney Holiday Story strips typically starred the characters from the latest Disney animated film at the time of publication (with the exception of its final storyline, which instead served as a tie-in with the theatrical re-release of The Little Mermaid) and did not do any crossovers between films.
In 2017, IDW Publishing published a hardback book titled Disney's Christmas Classics, which collected almost all of the storylines from both iterations of the strip's run, with the exception of the 1986 storyline, "A Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah Christmas", which featured characters from Song of the South (even though Br'er Bear had also appeared prominently in the 1980 storyline, "Santa's Magical Christmas Helpers", which is reprinted in the book).
==Stories==
===Disney Christmas Story===
Title 	Writer 	Artist(s) 	Original run 	Featuring characters from
"Peter Pan's Christmas Story" 	Frank Reilly 	Manuel Gonzales 	November 28 - December 24, 1960	Peter Pan and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
"Pinocchio's Christmas Story" 	Frank Reilly 	Chuck Fuson and Floyd Gottfredson (pencils)Manuel Gonzales (inks)	November 27 - December 24, 1961	Pinocchio
"Sleeping Beauty's Christmas Story" 	Frank Reilly 	John Ushler 	November 26 - December 24, 1962	Sleeping Beauty
"The Three Little Pigs' Christmas Story"	Frank Reilly 	Floyd Gottfredson 	November 25 - December 24, 1963	The Three Little Pigs
"Cinderella's Christmas Party" 	Frank Reilly 	Floyd Gottfredson (pencils)Manuel Gonzales (inks) 	November 23 - December 24, 1964	Cinderella
"Bambi's Christmas Adventure" 	Frank Reilly 	Guillermo Cardosos 	November 29 - December 24, 1965	Bambi, Dumbo
"Snow White's Christmas Surprise" 	Frank Reilly 	Mike Arens 	November 28 - December 24, 1966	Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
"Dumbo and the Christmas Mystery" 	Frank Reilly 	Mike Arens 	November 23 - December 24, 1967	Dumbo, Sleeping Beauty, The Sword in the Stone, and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
"Santa Claus is Never Land" 	Frank Reilly 	Cliff Nordberg (pencils)Manuel Gonzales (inks) 	November 25 - December 24, 1968	Peter Pan
"The Quest for Christmas" 	Frank Reilly 	James Swain (pencils)Manuel Gonzales (inks) 	December 1 - 24, 1969 	Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Sleeping Beauty
"Santa's Christmas Crisis" 	Frank Reilly 	John Ushler 	November 30 - December 24, 1970	Sleeping Beauty
"The Christmas Conspiracy" 	Frank Reilly 	Mike Arens 	December 6 - 24, 1971 	Uncle Scrooge, Cinderella and Dumbo
"The Magic Christmas Tree" 	Frank Reilly 	John Ushler 	December 4 - 23, 1972 	The Sword in the Stone
"A Castle for Christmas" 	Frank Reilly 	John Ushler 	December 3 - 24, 1973 	Dumbo and Bambi
"Santa's Crucial Christmas" 	Frank Reilly 	Tom McKimson 	December 2 - 24, 1974 	Dumbo, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Pinocchio, The Three Little Pigs, and Cinderella
"Santa and the Pirates" 	Frank Reilly 	John Ushler 	December 1 - 24, 1975 	Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Cinderella
"Captain Hook's Christmas Caper" 	Carl Fallberg	Lorna Smith (pencils)Larry Meyer (inks) 	November 29-December 24, 1976 	The Three Little Pigs, Pinocchio, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, and The Sword in the Stone
"No Puppets for Christmas" 	Carl Fallberg	Wille Ito (pencils)Larry Meyer (inks) 	December 5-24, 1977 	Pinocchio, Peter Pan, and Cinderella
"The Day Christmas Was Banned" 	Carl Fallberg	Tony Strobl (pencils)Larry Meyer (inks) 	December 4-23, 1978 	Robin Hood and Dumbo
"Madam Mim's Christmas Grudge" 	Carl Fallberg	Tony Strobl (pencils)Mike Royer (inks) 	December 1-24, 1979 	The Sword in the Stone
"Santa's Magical Christmas Helpers" 	Carl Fallberg	Tony Strobl (pencils)Mike Royer (inks) 	December 1-24, 1980 	Pinocchio, The Tree Little Pigs, Song of the South, and Sleeping Beauty
"Cinderella's Christmas Crisis" 	Carl Fallberg	Tony Strobl (pencils)Steve Steere (inks) 	November 30-December 24, 1981 	Cinderella
"The Mysterious Christmas Spell" 	Carl Fallberg	Tony Strobl (pencils)Steve Steere (inks) 	November 29-December 24, 1982 	The Sword in the Stone and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
"Christmas Comes to Never Land" 	Carl Fallberg	Willie Ito (pencils)Bill Langley (inks) 	November 28-24, 1983 	Peter Pan
"A Christmas Present for Mr. Toad" 	Carl Fallberg	Willie Ito (pencils)Larry Meyer (inks) 	December 3-22, 1984 	The Wind in the Willows and Pinocchio
"Cruella's Very Furry Christmas" 	Floyd Norman 	Willie Ito (pencils)Mike Royer (inks) 	December 2-24, 1985 	One Hundred and One Dalmatians
"A Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah Christmas" 	Floyd Norman 	Keith Moseley (pencils)Bill Langley (inks) 	December 1-24, 1986 	Song of the South
"Snow White's Sinister Christmas Gift" 	Carl Fallberg	Keith Moseley (pencils)Bill Langley (inks) 	November 30-December 24, 1987 	Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
===Disney Holiday Story===
All stories in the revival series were written by Floyd Norman (with Karen Kreider co-writing the first storyline) and drawn by Richard Moore.
Featuring characters from 	Original run
Beauty and the Beast 	November 30-December 25, 1992
Aladdin 	November 29-December 25, 1993
The Lion King 	November 28-December 23, 1994
Pocahontas 	November 27-December 23, 1995
The Hunchback of Notre Dame	December 2-28, 1996
The Little Mermaid 	November 27-December 24, 1997
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