Line #37 Magazine/DisneyAdventures


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4	''Disney Adventures'' was a magazine produced by [[Creator/{{Disney}} The Walt Disney Company]] that ran from 1990 to 2007. If you were a kid in the USA at any point during that 17-year span, you more than likely begged your parents to buy you at least one copy, because each issue featured a popular Disney character or Hollywood celebrity on its front cover.
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6	The magazine basically featured any standard story or article you'd find in, say, ''Entertainment Weekly'', but written in a less formal manner and aimed at kids (there was a period where most of the articles were actually written ''by'' kids, for example).
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8	Perhaps the most memorable thing about ''Disney Adventures'', though, were its comics in each issue, which were later consolidated into a single section, the Comics Zone, in 1995. During the early half of the 1990's, the magazine's comics were mainly based on Disney's currently-running animated properties, such as the shows on WesternAnimation/TheDisneyAfternoon programming block. Later on, however, the Comics Zone began to expand its horizon to running excerpts of other independent comic books, such as ''ComicBook/{{Bone}}'', ''ComicBook/TheSimpsons'', ''Dr. Watchstop'', ''Nervous Rex'', and ''Little Gloomy''. Then, in 1997, the magazine ran its first original comic, ''ComicBook/TheAdventuresOfDAndA'', which opened the way for more original properties in the Comics Zone.
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10	During the One Saturday Morning era of Disney Television Animation, the Comics Zone gradually shifted its focus away from Disney's new animated television properties (some shows, like the ''WesternAnimation/{{Hercules\|TheAnimatedSeries}}'' series and ''WesternAnimation/TeachersPet'' ended up getting only one comic, while some like ''WesternAnimation/TeamoSupremo'' never got featured in comic form at all) and instead put it on original comics like ''Society of Horrors'' and ''Jet Pack Pets'' (although they would still occasionally feature a short comic based on one of the Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon films, particularly if there was a new video release coming for the film in question). From then on, whenever a Disney animated property ''did'' get a comic story, it was a rare occasion that the story would be longer than four pages.
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12	The magazine was suddenly canceled in 2007, and ended with the November 2007 issue...[[MoodWhiplash two issues after it celebrated its 17th anniversary]].
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14	[[foldercontrol]]
15	[[folder:Notable recurring features]]
16	* ''Ask Liz'': A column where entertainment editor Liz Smith answered readers' questions about celebrities.
17	* ''Big Adventures'': A feature article each month that went into detail on subjects like spies, underwater research, or unexplained mysteries.
18	* ''Card Sharks'': A column about sport card collecting and card games.
19	* ''Cool Stuff'': A SpiritualSuccessor to Card Sharks and the DA Wish List, featuring a rundown of toys and gadgets.
20	* ''DA Buzz'': A quick rundown of popular media, slang, and fashion.
21	* ''The DA Casebusters'': A recurring series about fictional {{Kid Detective}}s who solved mysteries, and was one of the few non-comics features to get its own spinoff series of books.
22	* ''DA Wish List'': Usually run in the December issue, this features a list of toys, video games, and movies that kids might ask for during the holiday season.
23	* ''Creator/{{ESPN}} Action'': A sports column included after Disney's buyout of the ESPN cable network.
24	* ''Hot Video Game Picks'': A column about current video games, including tips on how to defeat enemies and beat the games. Later renamed ''Techno Mania'' after the move to New York.
25	* ''Joe Rocket: Master of All Knowledge'': A science column by a character named Joe Rocket, who hung out in a treehouse called "the A-ZONE" and wrote about his adventures with his sidekick MC[[superscript:2]], brother Blubb, and their friends Chiphead, Dozmo, and Lizzie. Joe also answered reader-submitted science questions.
26	* ''Mr. Adventure'': Also called ''The Adventure Files'', this was a first-person column written by senior editor Sean Plottner, where he would participate in jobs like survival training or tree climbing a la ''Series/DirtyJobs'', as kind of a SpiritualSuccessor to the earlier ''Big Adventures'' feature.
27	* ''Puzzles'': Originally called ''Xoxxox'', this section featured simple word and image puzzles, as well as a recurring puzzle called "Eye Poppers/Bogglers" where you would have to guess what an object was based on a zoomed-in photograph.
28	* ''Ticket'': The entertainment column talking about upcoming kid-friendly movies, TV shows, comics, and video games. Later renamed ''Flash''.
29	* ''Weird Yet True'': A feature containing arcane "Did you know?" trivia nuggets.
30	* ''Zip Code'': A column printing readers' letters to the magazine, later renamed ''[[ShapedLikeItself Letters]]'' and ''Mailbox''.
31	[[/folder]]
32	[[folder:Notable original comics and storylines]]
33	[[index]]
34	* ''ComicBook/TheAdventuresOfDAndA'': A series about two tweens, Denise Dawson and Adam Anderson, who cross paths with a paranormal investigations organization and become agents themselves.[[/index]]
35	* ''Alien 8''
36	* ''Captain Blammo! versus Toxo the Bear''
37	* ''Disney's Tall Tales''
38	* The Fluffy trilogy: Three ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'' stories about a super-intelligent housecat that becomes a villain.[[index]]
39	* ''ComicBook/GorillaGorilla''[[/index]]
40	* ''Jet Pack Pets'': Three pets who fight crime.
41	* ''Junior Comics Zone'': An addition to the regular Comics Zone, overseen by art production lead Gregory Benton, where readers could [[OfficialFanSubmittedContent submit their own comics]].
42	* ''Kid Blastoff'': A one-off three-parter from Creator/EvanDorkin about a [[SmallNameBigEgo wannabe]] CelebritySuperhero.[[index]]
43	* ''Kid Gravity''
44	* ''ComicBook/TheLegendOfTheChaosGod'': A five-part CrossThrough of ''WesternAnimation/TaleSpin'', ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers'', ''WesternAnimation/GoofTroop'', ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'', and ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck''.[[/index]]
45	* ''Luna Park''
46	* ''Nikki Tesla'': A kid scientist whose inventions, while helpful, typically have a significant design flaw.
47	* ''The Perils of Mickey: Return to Blaggard Castle'': A 2-issue sequel to the "Blaggard Castle" storyline from the Mickey Mouse comic strip.
48	* ''SMART: Super Music Action Ready Team'': A BandToon in comic form, where late-1990s pop singers are all spies in a secret agent organization.
49	* ''Society of Horrors''
50	* ''Space Mickey and the Throgg Ray Wars'': A 3-issue graphic novel storyline with painted art, featuring WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse [[RecycledINSPACE IN SPACE!]] [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes Unfortunately has never been reprinted]].
51	[[/folder]]
52	[[folder:Disney cartoons, films, and TV shows that got featured in comic form in the magazine]]
53	[[index]]
54	* ''WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians''
55	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}''
56	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Bonkers}}''
57	* ''WesternAnimation/ABugsLife''
58	* ''WesternAnimation/BuzzLightyearOfStarCommand''
59	* ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers''
60	* ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck''
61	* ''WesternAnimation/DaveTheBarbarian''
62	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Dinosaur}}''
63	* ''Series/{{Dinosaurs}}''
64	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}''
65	* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987''
66	* ''Series/TheFamousJettJackson''
67	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}''
68	* ''Film/GeorgeOfTheJungle'': Featured in a one-off story written by Creator/MarkEvanier and drawn by Creator/SergioAragones.
69	* ''WesternAnimation/GoofTroop'' and ''WesternAnimation/AGoofyMovie''
70	* ''WesternAnimation/TheGreatMouseDetective''
71	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}''
72	* ''WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame\|Disney}}''
73	* ''Franchise/TheIncredibles''
74	* ''WesternAnimation/TheJungleBook1967''
75	* ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible''
76	* ''[[ComicStrip/ComicZoneLiloAndStitch Lilo & Stitch]]'': This includes [[WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch the original film]], ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitchTheSeries'', ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch2StitchHasAGlitch'', [[Franchise/LiloAndStitch and]] WesternAnimation/LeroyAndStitch.
77	* ''WesternAnimation/LloydInSpace''
78	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Marsupilami}}''
79	* ''WesternAnimation/MeetTheRobinsons''
80	* ''WesternAnimation/MightyDucksTheAnimatedSeries''
81	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}}''
82	* ''Franchise/TheMuppets'': Only one short in the final issue; writer/artist Roger Langridge then went on to create ''ComicBook/TheMuppetShowComicBook''.
83	* ''WesternAnimation/NightmareNed''
84	* ''WesternAnimation/PepperAnn''
85	* ''WesternAnimation/PeterPan''
86	* ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean''
87	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Pocahontas}}''
88	* ''Franchise/PowerRangers'': From 2002 to 2007, during Disney's ownership of the franchise.
89	* ''WesternAnimation/QuackPack''
90	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}''
91	* ''WesternAnimation/TheReplacements''
92	* ''Film/TheRocketeer''
93	* ''WesternAnimation/RobinHood1973''
94	* ''[[Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit Roger Rabbit]]''
95	* ''WesternAnimation/TheShnookumsAndMeatFunnyCartoonShow''
96	* ''Film/SpyKids''
97	* ''WesternAnimation/TaleSpin''
98	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Tarzan}}''
99	* ''WesternAnimation/TeachersPet''
100	* ''WesternAnimation/TimonAndPumbaa''
101	* ''Franchise/ToyStory''
102	* ''ComicBook/{{WITCH}}''
103	[[/folder]]
104	[[/index]]
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106	!!This magazine contained examples of:
107	* BrieferThanTheyThink:
108	** The magazine's Burbank production, often seen as its "golden age," lasted just over 4 out of its 17 years, from November 1990 to December 1994.
109	** It's often remembered as an annual feature, but overall there were only three issues with the 3D gimmick: November 1992, November 1993, and July 1994.
110	* ButNowIMustGo: Founding editor Tommi Lewis gave a brief but heartfelt goodbye on the December 1994 "Hello" page, explaining that she wasn't moving to New York with the rest of the magazine's production.
111	-->'''Tommi:''' I hope wherever I end up, we'll find each other.
112	* CharacterCatchphrase: Joe Rocket's catchphrase was, "Play hard and think deep."
113	* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Really, it depended on when you first started reading the magazine. However, the first official issue[[note]] There was a preview issue in Fall 1990 that laid out the original format and mainly featured a couple of ''WesternAnimation/{{DuckTales\|1987}}'', ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers'' and ''WesternAnimation/TaleSpin'' comics[[/note]] in particular was quite a bit different than what readers would see throughout the rest of TheNineties. For starters, the magazine itself was billed as the "Official Publication of WesternAnimation/TheDisneyAfternoon." Zip Code and Ticket had threadbare layouts, there was a technology feature called "Cyber," an action section called "Impulse," and the puzzles section was called "Xoxxox."
114	* ElephantInTheLivingRoom: The last issue, November 2007, doesn't outright ''say'' it is the last issue, but as discussed [[https://animesuperhero.com/forums/threads/the-disney-adventures-archive-part-2.4715881/post-73670491 here]], it certainly implies it with the opening collage of all 201 covers, and in the comics section.
115	* FusionFic: The [[https://archive.org/details/disney-adventures-v3i6/page/n2/mode/1up April 1993 "Hello" page]] took the front cover -- which featured various Disney characters as ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' characters -- and wrote a brief, fanficcy story around it where the ''Enterprise'' crew goes to the [[Ride/WaltDisneyWorld Magic Kingdom]], and Creator/WaltDisney transforms them into Disney characters: Riker turns into [[WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987 Launchpad McQuack]], Data turns into WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}}, Guinan turns into [[WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987 Magica De Spell]], Geordi turns into WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck, Troi turns into [[Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit Jessica Rabbit]], Worf turns into [[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast Beast]], Picard turns into [[WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987 Scrooge McDuck]], and Dr. Crusher turns into [[WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers Gadget]].[[note]]For bonus points, the story starts out with, "[[Franchise/StarWars In a galaxy far, far away]]..."[[/note]]
116	* IntrepidReporter: Mr. Adventure, aka senior editor Sean Plottner, who wrote a feature each month about a different activity that he got to participate in (i.e. Civil War re-enacting, survivalist training, basic CIA spy techniques).
117	* KidDetective: The DA Casebusters.
118	* NeverHadToys: According to an article about ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory2'', Al (of Al's Toy Barn) was never allowed to play with toys as a child, which explains why he became a toy collector as an adult.
119	* OddballInTheSeries: The August 30, 1997 issue completely removes almost all of the magazine's regular features to cover lists of "What's Hot" in entertainment, activities, sports, and so on, leaning heavily into the entertainment focus that would come to dominate Suzanne Harper's time as editor-in-chief. Even [[https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/Disney_Adventures?file=10_Disney_Adventures_August_30_1997.jpg the cover itself]] shies away from the format used by the magazine at the time. The only regular feature in the issue is the Comics Zone, which only runs the debut of ''ComicBook/TheAdventuresOfDAndA'' and no other regular comics. This is the only time the magazine would attempt this format, although the annual newsstand-only music specials starting in 1999 would come close.
120	* RogerRabbitEffect: Or at least a version of it. Many of the magazine's classic covers featured celebrities interacting with Disney characters - including, yes, [[Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit Roger Rabbit]].
121	* ShipTease: For several characters on ''WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}''. "The Case of the Missing Journals" from the April 1999 issue, which promoted ''WesternAnimation/DougsFirstMovie'', printed pages from several characters' journals; Doug's has an angsty entry about having crushes on both [[BettyAndVeronica Patti Mayonnaise and Cassandra Bleem]], Connie's talks about her crush on Roger, Skeeter's has a backwards love poem dedicated to Beebe, Beebe's has a word search with her secret crush's name (Skeeter) hidden, and Patti's talks about an unnamed guy she really likes (but her doodle of a maze has Doug as the only solution).
122	* {{Slogans}}: The magazine's slogan was "ADVENTURE ON!"
123	* TheSmartGuy: The eponymous character from the Joe Rocket column, which was discontinued shortly after Tommi Lewis left, was a smart kid who had adventures each month with his friends, and answered science questions sent in by readers.
124	* TakeAThirdOption: For the October 1998 Mailbox page, the editors had asked readers to write in and answer [[HypotheticalFightDebate who would win in a fight]]: Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer or Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch. One reader response said that Buffy and Sabrina were both good people, probably wouldn't want to fight, and would probably become friends instead.
125	* {{Technopath}}: One of the finalists in the 1994 Superhero Contest, a female character named Games (described as "The video-game vigilante"), appears to be a technopath based on the reader's drawing.
126	* TelevisionTieInMagazines: {{Downplayed}} as providing tie-in information is not its primary purpose. However, its iconic Comic Zone section reunites short comic stories about Disney's animated productions.
127	* ThreeDimensionalEpisode: For its first few years, the magazine had an annual 3-D issue, complete with a 3-D comic and 3-D ads.
128	* TransatlanticEquivalent: [[https://www.comicsbeat.com/the-ballad-of-disney-adventures/ According to Heidi MacDonald]], DA was the brainchild of founding publisher Michael Lynton, who was born in Denmark and came up with the idea of an American version of Disney's ''Topolino'' magazine that was popular in Italy.
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130	!!The Comics Zone contained examples of:
131	''ComicBook/TheLegendOfTheChaosGod'', ''ComicBook/TheAdventuresOfDAndA'', ''ComicBook/GorillaGorilla'', and ''ComicStrip/ComicZoneLiloAndStitch'' each have their own pages.
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133	* AdaptationalBadass: Roxanne from ''WesternAnimation/AGoofyMovie''. In the movie she was a somewhat shy SatelliteLoveInterest; in the magazine's comics she rescues Max from a snake, and directly confronts Max's noisy and intimidating neighbor Mr. Kong.
134	* AdaptationDistillation: More often than not, the comics based on the TV shows were generally pretty good, but the comic adaptations of the Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon were shoehorned in quite a bit. For example, the "Colors of the Wind" sequence from ''WesternAnimation/{{Pocahontas}}'' was reduced to a mere two frames in the ''DA'' adaptation.
135	** Their ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong64' comic, in which King K. Rool's Kremling {{mooks}} look like miniature versions of [[GentleGiant K. Lumsy]] and the storyline bears very little resemblance to the game.
136	* AnimatedAdaptation:
137	** Actually, "Animated Adaptation Which Was Already Adapted From Animation". One of the ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'' comics, "The Long Hot Recess" from 1998, was slightly re-made into an episode, "The Coolest Heatwave Ever", in 2001. Some elements of the plot were changed.
138	** One ''WesternAnimation/PepperAnn'' comic about Pepper Ann attempting to gain access to her school's teacher's lounge was later adapted into an episode of ''Recess'' with TJ's gang attempting to do the same. The ''Recess'' episode even had the same twist ending.
139	* BandToon: The ''Super Music Action Ready Team'' comics. Every pop music act and boy band from circa 1999 (and we do mean ''all of them'') [[BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy were made up of superspies]].
140	* {{Bowdlerise}}: When DA reprinted ''ComicBook/{{Bone}}'', for example, it changed the beer at the Barrelhaven Tavern into [[FrothyMugsOfWater soda]], replaced all mentions of God with "Gosh", edited out the dragon's cigars in the second half, removed Thorn's cleavage in one panel, and cut out two scenes entirely.
141	* BrickJoke: The final issue featured a sequel to the ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'' comic from the ''first'' issue.
142	* BrieferThanTheyThink:
143	** Heidi's Comic Zone column, one of the more well-remembered features after the magazine's move to New York, was only around from January 1995 to December 1997, just barely under three years.
144	** ''ComicBook/TheAdventuresOfDAndA'' only appeared in three issues, and ''Luna Park'' only appeared in two.
145	* CaptainErsatz: Nimrod the Rabbit from the ''WesternAnimation/{{Bonkers}}'' story "Temple of Doom" is very clearly one for WesternAnimation/OswaldTheLuckyRabbit, who Disney still didn't own the rights to at the time.
146	* CrossThrough: 1994's ''ComicBook/TheLegendOfTheChaosGod'' story arc linked the continuities of ''WesternAnimation/TaleSpin'', ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers'', ''WesternAnimation/GoofTroop'', ''WesternAnimation/{{DuckTales\|1987}}'', and ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck''. The story focused on a [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot god-like dragon sorcerer]] that was [[SealedEvilInACan sealed in an ancient jewel]] trying to free himself by reuniting the jewel with its setting, a golden necklace. The story concluded with the Chaos God being freed and fighting Darkwing Duck.
147	* CutShort:
148	** As recounted [[https://animesuperhero.com/forums/threads/the-disney-adventures-archive-part-2.4715881/post-73669731 here]], ''Luna Park'' was discontinued after Heidi [=MacDonald=]'s departure; its second and final installment appeared in the May 1999 issue, which was also Heidi's penultimate issue.
149	** ''Kid Blastoff'' also didn't return to the magazine after its first story.
150	* CuteKitten: One "Junior Comic" was an adorably-drawn strip about a typical day in the life of a kitty.
151	* DeadpanSnarker: Mickey Mouse, believe it or not, in the ''Disney's Tall Tales'' comics, a comic which is almost like ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'' with Mickey being a less {{Jerkass}} version of Ren, and Goofy being Stimpy.
152	* FadSuper: ''Disney Adventures'' published ''ComicBook/TheAdventuresOfDAndA'' at a time when stories of the paranormal (such as on ''Series/TheXFiles''), or of kids and/or secret organizations involved in secret conflicts with aliens (such as in ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' or ''Film/MenInBlack'') were popular.
153	* HappyFunBall: The Toonstone from the ''WesternAnimation/{{Bonkers}}'' two-parter "Temple of Doom," which apparently is the source of all humor for toons, looks like an egg with a colorful face painted on it. But it's also dangerous to humans, as the spirits stored inside of it are far too funny for humans to comprehend. That said, the Toonstone is technically [[spoiler:a MockGuffin; Bonkers tells Lucky that toons actually don't have a source for their humor and are just naturally funny.]]
154	* {{Homage}}:
155	** The two-part ''WesternAnimation/{{Bonkers}}'' story "Murder Mania" is an homage to the Creator/MarxBrothers and their films.
156	** Also from ''Bonkers'', the "Temple of Doom" two-parter is an homage to the original three ''Franchise/IndianaJones'' movies.[[note]]The climax explicitly borrows from the climaxes of all three movies: the [[MacGuffin Toonstone]] is a pastiche of the Sankara Stones from ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheTempleOfDoom'', it's guarded by an ancient caretaker and hidden in a secret chamber amongst false versions like the Grail in ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade'', and spirits emerge from it just like in ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk'' (Bonkers even covers Lucky's eyes because the spirits are too funny for humans to withstand).[[/note]]
157	* HyperCompetentSidekick: Lucy, the GadgeteerGenius in ''Kid Blastoff''. She recognizes that Dr. Hugo Boom's sentient bombs are ridiculously stupid, and she saves Kid Blastoff twice during the story.
158	* {{Interquel}}: The ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'' comic in the December 1997 issue takes place during the events of the second episode, "The New Kid", right before King Bob declares Gus "New Kid."
159	* LeftHanging: The third-to-last issue reprinted the first half of a ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'' story (most likely attempting to advertise the show's second DVD set), but despite the promise made in the last panel, they forgot to run the second half in the final two issues.
160	* OneIPreparedEarlier: Parodied in a comic featuring [[WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994 Timon and Pumbaa]]. A fictional cooking show uses ''fake'' ones they prepared earlier. As it just so happens, the day they were doing pigs was the day that A) they forgot to put in the fake and B) the day Pumbaa climbed into the fake oven. [[HilarityEnsues With hilarious consequences.]]
161	* ParentalBonus: For both the Comics Zone and the main magazine, but the comics in particular made sly references to people or things that kids most likely wouldn't have heard of yet.
162	* RecursiveReality: The short ''Darkwing Duck'' comic titled "Cogito Ergo Something" has Launchpad holding up a dandelion and positing the existence of countless Recursive Realities to Darkwing. Sure enough, the perspective changes, and we see another world inside the dandelion seed where an alien Launchpad is presumably saying the same thing to an alien Darkwing about an alien flower. Then the perspective changes to inside the alien flower, and we see the "normal" world again ([[MindScrew inside the inside]]), where Darkwing promptly blows the whole idea off as nonsense and blows the dandelion seeds to the wind.
163	* ReCut: Eighteen years after the story originally ran in the magazine, writer Doug Gray posted his original version of the second Fluffy story, "Cat in a Hot Tin Suit", [[https://mongomblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/darkwing-duck-cat-in-hot-tin-suit_11.html on his blog]].
164	* {{Retraux}}: Around the time that ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory2'' came out, DA ran a series of ''[[ShowWithinAShow Woody's Roundup]]'' comics that were meant to look like aged comics from the 1950s. The entire pages themselves were even yellowed a bit to complete the illusion.
165	* RogerRabbitEffect: Was also there in a few of the comics. At least two DA comics featured Music/WeirdAlYankovic interacting with cartoon characters, and one featured the ''actual DA staff'' dealing with some cartoony villains (and a ContestWinnerCameo, since the villains were the winners of a contest where readers submitted their best original villains).
166	** There was also has an issue with a story meant to promote Mickey's Toontown at [[Ride/DisneyThemeParks Disneyland]]. In it, the backgrounds were photos of the park but the characters were hand-drawn (rather badly).
167	* UncattyResemblance: The Jet Pack Pets all bear some resemblance to their owners.
168	* UnexplainedRecovery:
169	** No explanation is given for how [[spoiler:Fidget survived his plunge into the Thames]] in the final issue's ''WesternAnimation/TheGreatMouseDetective'' story.
170	** At the end of the ''Bonkers'' comic "Temple of Doom," Gloomy smashes the Toonstone, releasing spirits that carry him off. A panel later, the Toonstone is somehow back in one piece, with Lucky asking Nimrod if Gloomy is trapped forever.

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