Tuesday, July 3, 2018

Disney comics published by Scholastic

Scholastic is a publishing company specializing in books for children and for educational purpose and have a lot of titles with Disney characters. But I only know of two publications that can be defined as comics or graphic novels. With their enormous library I think that is a bit strange – so this post is mostly asking other collectors and Disney comic fans if anyone know if more exist? If you know of any titles not mentioned in this post please make a comment below!

The two titles I know of is Return to OZ and The Black Cauldron, both having comic adaptations of the movies with the same name. They are © 1985, so probably published this year too.
 

Return to OZ and The Black Cauldron published by Scolatic Inc.
Return to OZ and The Black Cauldron published by Scolatic Inc.

 
First comic page



Back cover

I got two more British publications with comics titled The Disneytime Storybook that are "produced exclusively for Scholastic Publications". But both are published/distributed by London Editions Magazines (Egmont) and World International Publishing Limited (also Egmont) while the spine says Cliveden Press. So I don't count them as Scholastic comics.


The British "The Disneytime Storybook"
The British "The Disneytime Storybook"


 



Both are identical to the British The Disneytime Annual 1989 and 1990 in content, just in softcover instead of hardcover. The storybooks even share the same ISBN number as the annuals!


The British "The Disneytime Annual" 1989 and 1990
The British "The Disneytime Annual" 1989 and 1990


The British "The Disneytime Annual" 1989 and 1990
Inside the 1989 Storybook and Annual

Actually (at least) one of the two storybooks exists in hardcover too, published in Australia by Budget Books Pty Ltd. but otherwise identical to the two British editions.

 

British and Australina The Disneytime Stoybook
The British softcover book (left) and the Australian hardcover (right)


British Storybook (top), British Annual (middle), Austraian Storybook (bootom)


But getting back on track; what I'm trying to figure out is if Scholastic has published more Disney comics?


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