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Issue: Walt Disney Showcase #43

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Publication Date: April 1978

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Issues: #43 of 54 Issues (82 Printings)

Title:

Variant: Whitman

Rating:

Publisher: Flag

Western

Brand: Whitman

Indicia Publisher: Western Publishing Company Inc.

On Sale Date: (not set)

Volume: none

Pages: 36

ISBN:

UPC/EAN: 0335009025804

Price: $0.35 USD

Indicia Frequency:

Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
3 (1 story, 1 cover) from base issue

Editor(s): Del Connell

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: color cover; color interior

Dimensions: standard Modern Age US

Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior

Binding: saddle-stitched

Publishing Format: was ongoing series

Format Notes:

Variants2

2 Walt Disney Showcase #43 [Gold Key]

Walt Disney Showcase #43 [Whitman]

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Images1

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Cover, Front

Original Artwork

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Title Page

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Content Items (3 total)

Pete's Dragon

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): ?; ? (movie still photos)

Inker(s): ?; ? (movie still photos)

Colorist(s): ?; ? (movie still photos)

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: fantasy

Feature(s): Pete's Dragon

Character(s): Pete; Elliott; Nora; Lampie

First Line: Wait Disney Productions' brightest, liveliest musical!

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: Only Elliott is drawn, all other images are movie still photos.

Spider-Man vs The Chairman!

Advertisement (Comic Format) on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Editor(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; The Chairman; police officer; two children

Synopsis: The Chairman is about to turn Spider-Man into a chair when the children distract him with Hostess Twinkies, causing his chair gun to misfire and turning him into a chair instead.

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: Ad for Hostess Twinkies. Printed on inside front cover. Buscema and Sinnott (attributed) credits from auction of original art on Heritage Auction Galleries in January 2006.

Pete's Dragon

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: fantasy

Feature(s): Pete's Dragon

Character(s): Lena Gogan; Mr. Gogan; 2 Gogan sons; Pete; Elliott; Lampie; Nora; Doctor Terminus; Hoagy; Miss Taylor; Paul; unnamed townsfolk

Synopsis: An orphan named Pete is running from the wicked Gogan family that bought the rights to look after him. Elliott, Pete's guardian dragon, defeats a plan by Doctor Terminus to trap and kill him, and everyone lives happily ever after, when Elliot reunites Nora and Paul, who take in Pete.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 25

Job Number: 90258-804, Showcase 43-78

Notes: Movie adaptation.