A Look Back: Disney Adventures

History

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The magazine was first published on October 16, 1990 and featured a wide
assortment of educational material, entertainment news, user
contributions, and puzzle games. Regular features included a guide to
television, movies, books, and music called “Ticket”, factoids about
unusual yet actual things under the title “Weird Yet True”, and a sports
guide that appeared during the late 1990s called “ESPN Action.” First
issue was dated November 12, 1990, and featured Rick Moranis on the
cover.

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, Mickey Mouse,
Gargoyles, 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.

From 1999 onward, Disney Adventures held an annual "Cool Pets Contest."
The contest featured five of the "coolest" and most talented pets along
with their owners.

In later years, Disney Adventures included information on the Disney
Channel and featured articles on current movies especially from Walt
Disney Pictures. The magazine offered features on Walt Disney Parks and
Resorts as well as music, movies, trends, science, travel, games,
puzzles, heroes, explorers and "real life adventures" (archaeology,
extreme sports and other hobbies and careers).

On August 21, 2007, The Walt Disney Company announced that Disney
Adventures would be discontinued, with the last issue cover dated
November 2007, which was the magazine's 17th "birthday". The final
issue's actual release date was October 16, 2007. For subscribers,
Disney Adventures was usually replaced with Sports Illustrated Kids for
the remainder of the subscription period. Some subscriptions were
proactively converted to Boys' Life magazine with no option for
pro-rated refunds. Disney processed subscription refunds in March 2008.

The decision to cease publishing Disney Adventures evidently came rather
suddenly, as the October 2007 issue contained a "Cool Christmas"
subscription gift order form. It seems unlikely that the magazine would
have sold subscriptions at that late date, had the staff known of its
impending cancellation.

For the older crowd, who remembers this magazine? I remember getting
this shit for years when i was a young one, and liked reading the comics
the most