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 Friday, September 28, 2007
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Posted by maggie

Here's one of the comics from that Heritage order: Four Color Comic #97: Walt Disney's The Wonderful Adventures of Pinocchio (copyright 1939, 1945 by Walt Disney Productions). The primary story, "The Wonderful Adventures of Pinocchio," was reprinted in the Four Color series later -- which is when I first saw it.

But this version had a back-up story that wasn't reprinted: "The Wonderful Mis-Adventures of Donocchio."

And, among the cool aspects of #97, the whole shooting match was by Walt Kelly. The weird thing is that it wasn't all inked by him, despite his obviously having written it and pencilled it. Only a few panels carry the full Kelly style, shown in the first panel. Perhaps he was trying out an assistant? Maybe he was even trying new tools: different brushes? drawing with his other hand? In any case, it's clearly his work -- with a difference. And the script of "Donocchio" has fun with Disney's Pinocchio (as well as the comic book itself). "Blow me down!" Donald says. "There's the wishing star -- and it reminds me that Pinocchio was a real blockhead! If he'd played his cards right, he could have stayed on Pleasure Island and nobody the wiser -- I'd like to be Pinocchio for about --" and he drifts off to sleep.






9/28/2007 8:14:43 AM (Central Daylight Time, UTC-05:00)  #  Comments [0]
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