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''Disney Adventures'' was a magazine that started printing in 1990 by The Walt Disney Company. If you were a kid at any point between then and 2007 (when the magazine was canceled), you more than likely begged your parents to buy you at least one copy, because each issue featured a popular Disney character or Hollywood celebrity on its front cover.

Perhaps the most memorable thing about ''Disney Adventures'', though, were its comics in each issue, which were later consolidated into a single section, the Comic Zone, in 1995. During the early half of the 1990's, the magazine's comics were mainly based on Disney's currently-running animated properties, such as the shows on [[The Disney Afternoon]] programming block. Later on, however, the Comic Zone began to expand its horizon to running excerpts of other independent comic books, such as ''[[Bone]]'', ''[[The Simpsons]]'' and ''[[Little Gloomy]]''. Then, in 1997, the magazine ran its first original comic, ''The Adventures of D & A'' (described [http://www.platypuscomix.net/otherpeople/worstcomixever/deeanday.html here] on [[Platypus Comix]]), which opened the way for more original properties in the Comic Zone.

 

 

The magazine was suddenly canceled in 2007...[[Mood Whiplash|two issues after it celebrated its 17th anniversary]].

Additionally, Disney cartoons, films, and TV shows that got featured in comic form in the magazine:

 

* ''[[Buzz Lightyear of Star Command]]''

* ''[[Dave the Barbarian]]''

* ''[[Dinosaur]]''

* ''[[Dinosaurs]]''

* ''[[Doug]]''

* ''[[The Famous Jett Jackson]]''

* ''[[The Incredibles]]''

* ''[[Kim Possible]]''

* ''[[Lloyd in Space]]''

* ''[[Marsupilami]]''

* ''[[Mulan]]''

* ''[[Nightmare Ned]]'' (yes, really)

* ''[[Pepper Ann]]''

* ''[[Pocahontas]]''

* ''[[Recess]]''

* ''[[Schnookums and Meat]]''

* ''[[Timon and Pumbaa]]''

 

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* [[But Now I Must Go]]: Founding editor Tommi Lewis gave a brief but heartfelt goodbye on the December 1994 "Hello" page, explaining that she wasn't moving to New York with the rest of the magazine's production.

* [[Catch Phrase]]: ADVENTURE ON!

* [[Intrepid Reporter]]: Mr. Adventure, aka senior editor Sean Plottner, who wrote a feature each month about a different activity that he got to participate in (i.e. Civil War re-enacting, survivalist training, basic CIA spy techniques).

* [[Kid Detective]]: The DA Casebusters.

* [[Milestone Celebration]]: The magazine had one for its 50th issue, its 100th issue, and its tenth anniversary.

* [[The Smart Guy]]: Anyone else remember Joe Rocket?

 

** Their ''[[Donkey Kong 64]]' comic, in which King K. Rool's Kremling [[Mooks]] look like miniature versions of [[Gentle Giant|K. Lumsy]] and the storyline bears very little resemblance to the game.

* [[Band Toon]]: The ''Super Music Action Ready Team'' comics. Every pop music act and boy band from circa 1999 (and we do mean ''all of them'') [[Beethoven Was an Alien Spy|were made up of superspies]].

* [[Bowdlerise]]: When DA reprinted ''[[Bone]]'', for example, it changed the beer at the Barrelhaven Tavern into soda, replaced all mentions of God with "Gosh", and cut out two scenes entirely.

* [[Cut Short]]: The third-to-last issue reprinted the first half of a ''[[Darkwing Duck]]'' story (most likely attempting to advertise the show's second DVD set), but despite the promise made in the last panel, they forgot to run the second half in the final two issues.

* [[Cute Kitten]]: One "Junior Comic" was an adorably-drawn strip about a typical day in the life of a kitty.

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Mickey Mouse, believe it or not, in the ''Disney's Tall Tales'' comics, a comic which is almost like ''[[The Ren and Stimpy Show]]'' with Mickey being a less [[Jerkass]] version of Ren, and Goofy being Stimpy.

* [[One I Prepared Earlier]]: Parodied in a comic featuring [[The Lion King|Timon and Pumbaa]]. A fictional cooking show uses ''fake'' ones they prepared earlier. As it just so happens, the day they were doing pigs was the day that A) they forgot to put in the fake and B) the day Pumbaa climbed into the fake oven. [[Hilarity Ensues|With hilarious consequences.]]

* [[Recursive Reality]]: The short ''Darkwing Duck'' comic titled "Cogito Ergo Something" has Launchpad holding up a dandelion and positing the existence of countless Recursive Realities to Darkwing. Sure enough, the perspective changes, and we see another world inside the dandelion seed where an alien Launchpad is presumably saying the same thing to an alien Darkwing about an alien flower. Then the perspective changes to inside the alien flower, and we see the "normal" world again ([[Mind Screw|inside the inside]]), where Darkwing promptly blows the whole idea off as nonsense and blows the dandelion seeds to the wind.

** There was also has an issue with a story meant to promote Mickey's Toontown at [[Disney Theme Parks|Disneyland]]. In it, the backgrounds were photos of the park but the characters were hand-drawn (rather badly).

 

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