Walt Disney Showcase, #43 Gold Key
Published: April 1978
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Pete's Dragon
Featuring Pete's Dragon
"Wait Disney Productions' brightest, liveliest musical!"
Characters
- Pete
- Elliott
- Nora
- Lampie
Story Notes
Only Elliott is drawn, all other images are movie still photos.
Spider-Man vs The Chairman!
Storyline
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.
Characters
- Spider-Man [Peter Parker]
- The Chairman
- police officer
- two children
Credits
- Pencils: Sal Buscema
- Inks: Joe Sinnott (uncertain)
Story 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
Featuring Pete's Dragon
Storyline
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.
Characters
- Lena Gogan
- Mr. Gogan
- 2 Gogan sons
- Pete
- Elliott
- Lampie
- Nora
- Doctor Terminus
- Hoagy
- Miss Taylor
- Paul
- unnamed townsfolk
Credits
- Script: Mary Carey
- Pencils: Dan Spiegle
- Pencils: Larry Mayer
- Inks: Dan Spiegle
- Inks: Larry Mayer
Story Notes
Movie adaptation.