Walt Disney's Treasury of Classic Tales
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Walt Disney's Treasury of Classic Tales is an American Sunday comic strip
Comic strip
A comic strip is a sequence of drawings arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often serialized, with text in balloons and captions....

, which ran in newspapers from 13 July 1952 until 15 February 1987. Each story adapted a different Disney
Walt Disney Pictures
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 film, such as Alice in Wonderland
Alice in Wonderland (1951 film)
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, Peter Pan
Peter Pan (1953 film)
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, or Davy Crockett
Davy Crockett
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. Most stories ran for 13 weeks. A few noteworthy stories:
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    drawn by Jesse Marsh
    Jesse Marsh
    Jesse Marsh was a comic book and animation artist. His main claim to fame is his work on the early Tarzan and related books for Western Publishing that saw print through Dell Comics and later Gold Key Comics. He was the first artist to produce original Tarzan comic books. Up to that time, all...

     (1954)
  • The Sword in the Stone
    The Sword in the Stone (film)
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    (1963)
  • The Black Hole
    The Black Hole
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    drawn by Jack Kirby
    Jack Kirby
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     (26 weeks) September 2, 1979 - February 24, 1980.
  • Return to Oz
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    (1984)
  • The Black Cauldron
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    The Black Cauldron is a 1985 American animated fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and originally released to theatres on July 24, 1985...

    (1984)


In the last two years of the strip, in addition to adaptations of films, there were new stories about characters from Disney films.
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