Walt Disney Showcase
#43
[Gold Key]
(April 1978)
- Volume:
- ?
- Price:
- 0.35 USD
- Pages:
- 36
- Indicia frequency:
- ?
- Indicia Publisher:
- ?
- Brand:
- Gold Key
- Barcode:
- ?
- Editing:
- Del Connell
- Format:
- Standard modern US size; Saddle-stitched; Full color cover; Full color interior; Was on-going
Pete's Dragon
Pete's Dragon / cover / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- ?; ? (movie still photos)
- Inks:
- ?; ? (movie still photos)
- Colors:
- ?; ? (movie still photos)
- Letters:
- typeset
Content Information
- Genre:
- fantasy
- Characters:
- Pete; Elliott; Nora; Lampie
Indexer Notes
Only Elliott is drawn, all other images are movie still photos.
Spider-Man vs The Chairman!
Spider-Man / advertisement / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Sal Buscema
- Inks:
- Joe Sinnott ?
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Editing:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- Super-hero
- Characters:
- 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.
Indexer 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
Pete's Dragon / comic story / 25 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Mary Carey
- Pencils:
- Dan Spiegle; Larry Mayer (drew Elliott the Dragon)
- Inks:
- Dan Spiegle; Larry Mayer (drew Elliott the Dragon)
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- 90258-804, Showcase 43-78
Content Information
- Genre:
- fantasy
- Characters:
- 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.
Indexer Notes
Movie adaptation.
Editing
This issue was most recently modified by:
- Jim Van Dore
- Alberto Becattini
- Donald Dale Milne
Issues in this series have been indexed by:
- Bob Hughes
- I.N.D.U.C.K.S Project and Alberto Becattini
- Jerry Bails (R.I.P.)
- Donald Dale Milne
- Jan Roar Hansen
- Karl Wilcox
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