Disney Adventures

Disney Adventures was a monthly magazine published by The Walt Disney Company from 1990 to 2007. It 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. Disney Adventures tended to be an inclusive magazine, often featuring information about films and TV shows by subsidiaries of The Walt Disney Company, The Onward Company and The Sonic & Donkey Kong Company. Major feature films, such as the Star Wars, Puyo Puyo, Harry Potter, The Backyardigans, Shrek, The Simpsons, Sonic the Hedgehog, and The Chronicles of Narnia franchises, also received coverage.
On August 21, 2007, Disney announced that after 17 years, Disney Adventures would be cancelled. The last issue was dated November 2007.
==Comics==
A regular feature of the magazine throughout its run was comic book stories. For the first eighteen issues, the comics were placed in different spots between articles and columns in each issue. Starting from the May 1992 issue, the comics were consolidated into a single section, labeled the Comic Zone in the January 1995 issue. However, from May 1992 to November 1994, most issues had one story run at an earlier point in the issue as a "Feature Comic". The "Feature Comic" idea was dropped as a regular feature afterward, but reappeared occasionally in later issues.
Early on, the magazine's comics were mainly based off of animated Disney properties, particularly the shows aired on the Disney Afternoon. Comic stories starring Roger Rabbit were also a regular feature in the magazine until the May 1993 issue (though much of the Roger Rabbit stories in the magazine's first year were reprints from the regular Roger Rabbit comic book that was running at the time). Another early recurring feature in the comics were "Big Adventures" comics, which were original stories themed around whichever topic was the subject in the "Big Adventures" column that month. Starting in 1996, the magazine also began publishing new comic stories based on older Disney animated features, often to tie in with new video releases that the films themselves were receiving.
Disney properties that were adapted as comics in Disney Adventures included:
*DuckTales
*Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers
*TaleSpin
*Who Framed Roger Rabbit
*The Rocketeer
*Mickey Mouse & Friends
*Darkwing Duck
*Goof Troop
*Aladdin (both the film and TV series)
*Dinosaurs
*Bonkers
*Marsupilami
*The Lion King
*Gargoyles
*Pocahontas
*Timon & Pumbaa
*Toy Story
*James and the Giant Peach
*Shnookums and Meat
*The Hunchback of Notre Dame
*Mighty Ducks
*Doug
*Hercules
*Pepper Ann
*Quack Pack
*The Jungle Book
*Recess
*Peter Pan
*Mulan
*A Bug's Life
*The Duck Avenger
*Teacher's Pet
*Lloyd in Space
*Monsters, Inc.
*Kim Possible
*Finding Nemo
*The Incredibles
*Cars
*The Replacements
*The Great Mouse Detective
*Lilo & Stitch (both the film and TV series)
*Meet the Robinsons
*Ratatouille
*The Proud Family
*Dave the Barbarian
As early as 1993, Disney Adventures also included independent comics with little to no relation to the Walt Disney Company itself. These included such comics as LEGO comics, William Van Horn's Nervous Rex, excerpts from Jeff Smith's Bone (which were censored to cut out family-unfriendly scenes), and short stories from The Simpsons comic book (notably, two stories were actually published in Disney Adventures before being printed in Simpsons Comics itself). Later issues would instead primarily feature original strips such as Jet Pack Pets and Society of Horrors. As a result, hower, comics based on newer Disney cartoons such as Teacher's Pet, Kim Possible, and The Replacements only appeared sporadically, and often did not run longer than four pages.
Late in the magazine's life, a spin-off Comic Zone magazine was published quarterly from fall 2004 to fall 2007. A few years after Disney Adventures ended altogether, Disney briefly revived Comic Zone as two one-shot magazines, published in winter 2012 and summer 2013, and featuring entirely comics based on Disney films and television shows.
Many of the Disney Afternoon-based comics in the magazine's first two years were reprinted in the comic digest Disney's Colossal Comics Collection, which unfortunately ended in May 1993. Almost two decades later, the first few Darkwing Duck comics were reprinted in Boom! Studios' Darkwing Duck Classics: Volume 1 trade paperback (which unfortunately never got any follow-up volumes) in 2010. Over another decade later, Fantagraphics began publishing The Disney Afternoon Adventures, a series of hardcover collections reprinting Disney Afternoon comics, including several that originally appeared in Disney Adventures. The first volume, Darkwing Duck in "Just Us Justice Ducks", was released on July 27, 2021.https://www.animationmagazine.net/licensing/first-look-fantagraphics-gets-dangerous-for-darkwing-duck-just-us-justice-ducks/ Also, the Kim Possible comics were reprinted in Kim Possible Adventures, which was released by IDW Publishing on February 19, 2019, as a tie-in with the live-action movie.https://www.amazon.com.au/Kim-Possible-Adventures-Michael-Stewart/dp/1684055121
==Gallery==
File:Disney Adventures Books.jpeg|Main Books
File:Disney Adventures - The Two Magazines.jpeg|Two Disney Adventures Magazines
File:Disney Adventures - The New Magazine.jpeg|The Disney Magazine with Yu-Gi-Oh!
File:Disney Adventures - On the Set with Spy Kids 3.jpeg|On the Set with Spy Kids 3
File:Disney Adventures - Monsters, Inc.jpeg|Monsters, Inc.
File:Disney Adventures - Hollywood's 20 Hottest Kids.jpeg|Hollywood's 20 Hottest Kids Exclusive Photos
File:Disney Adventures - Anime Special.jpeg|Kim Possible Hot Goss Poster
File:Disney Adventures - A Magic TV Ride.jpeg|A Magic TV Ride
File:Disney Adventures - Inside Summer's Big Movie Dinosaur!.jpeg|Inside Summer's Big Movie - Dinosaur!
File:Disney Adventures - Master Jammer Hammer & Other Music Winners Inside (Hooked on Pirates - The Top Video Games).jpeg|Master Jammer Hammer & Other Music Winners Inside: Hooked on Pirates - The Top Video Games
File:Disney Adventures - Backstage Fun.jpeg|Backstage Fun
File:Disney Adventures - Ka-Pow! - Get Your 'Toon Fx.jpeg|Ka-Pow!
File:The Disney Adventures' Power Rangers Book.jpeg|Power Rangers Return!
File:Disney Adventures - Behind the Scenes with Gargoyles.jpeg|Behind the Scenes with Gargoyles
File:Disney Adventures - Urkel Says Let's Party!.jpeg|Let's Party!
File:Disney Adventures - Jump to Our Music Issue.jpeg|The Disney Adventures Magazine with Max
File:Other Disney Adventures -3.jpeg|The Alternative Disney Adventures Page
File:Other Disney Adventures -2.jpeg|The Alternative Disney Adventures Page
File:Other Disney Adventures -1.jpeg|The Alternative Disney Adventures Page
File:Disney Adventures - The Addams Kids, Superheroes and Shaquillo (All in 3D!).jpeg|Wednesday and Pugsley and Cruella
File:Disney Adventures - Teacher's Pet.jpeg|Teacher's Pet
==References==
Category:American magazines
Category:Disney magazines
Category:Magazines launched in 1990
Category:Magazines discontinued in 2007