Saturday 10 April 2010

BRITISH-MADE GAG COMICS DERIVED FROM 'PETER AND THE WOLF'


British-made comics published in Britain's Mickey Mouse comics magazine in 1948 include several gag comics featuring the characters of the 'Peter and the Wolf' segment of Disney's feature-length compilation animation Make Mine Music (1946). The above scan is from no. 486, (June 26th, 1948) and the below ones from no. 499 and no. 500:

'Peter and the Wolf' is originally a musical story (with text to be narrated and music to be performed) by Soviet composer Sergei Prokofiev. Its first comics version was published in the US Walt Disney's Comics & Stories simoultanously with the release of Make Mine Music. Hence, the gags in British Mickey Mouse were Peter and his nemesis' second comics appearances. Next, there was a newspaper comics in 1954 and a further comics adaptation in the Silly Symphonies compilation comics magazine in 1957.

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