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Disney Adventures is a children's entertainment and educational magazine published ten times per year by The Walt Disney Company. It should not be confused with the now-defunct Disney Magazine.

Contents 1 History 2 Disney Adventures today 3 International publication 4 Collected volumes 5 External links

The magazine was first published in 1990, and featured a wide assortment of educational material, entertainment news, user contributions, and puzzle games. Regular features included:

• Card Shark - a trading card collector's guide
• D.A. Buzz - a guide to popular trends
• Joe Rocket - a fictional persona who answered scientific queries sent in by readers
• Ticket - a guide to television, movies, books, and music
• Weird Yet True - factoids about unusual yet actual things (such as the natural color of a blesbok)
• ESPN Action - a sports guide that appeared during the late 1990s

In the early years of the magazine, the comics usually featured in the magazine were standard Disney-based comics such as DuckTales, Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers, TaleSpin, Darkwing Duck, Goof Troop, Bonkers, and various adaptations of Disney feature films.

As the magazine evolved, non-Disney material from artists such as Sergio Aragonés, Evan Dorkin, Matt Groening, William Van Horn and Jeff Smith began appearing with some regularity. In addition, well known comic book industry names such as Marv Wolfman and Heidi MacDonald worked as comics editor for the magazine at various times during the mid-to-late 1990s.

Recently Disney Adventures expanded their publication to include an all comics magazine. Current comic material regularly seen in these two publications include:

• Tall Tales
• The Hair Pair
• Jet Pack Pets
• Kid Gravity
• Gorilla Gorilla
• Little Gloomy
• Dizzy Adventures
• Pirates of the Caribbean
• Society of Horrors
• The Scarecrow

Current comics contributors include: Garry Black, Alt Baltazar, Eric Jones, Matt Feazell, Landry Walker. Much of the comic work by these creators has recently (2006) been collected in graphic novel form by Disney Publishing. The current editors of the comics section are Steve Behling and Jesse Post.

Disney Adventures is also published outside of America, notably in Australia, where the magazine has now been running for over 10 years and is distributed to nearby Asia Pacific Islands and New Zealand. During 1994 to 1996, the magazine had its own edition in Mexico. In 2006, an Indian edition begun publishing.

See Disney Adventures Australia, Disney Adventures India, Disney Adventures Mexico

Disney Press recently released four collected volumes of Disney Adventures comics, two of which are Disney Adventures original creations. Each book is approximately 96 pages in length.

• Comic Zone Volume 1: Lilo and Stitch
• Comic Zone Volume 2: Gorilla Gorilla
• Comic Zone Volume 3: Disney's Tall Tales
• Comic Zone Volume 4: Kid Gravity

• Official site
• Disney Adventures at Disney Comics Worldwide