Old Disney Crossover comics

[m1ttens]

Lately i've been thinking about those old Christmas Disney comics which frequently featured crossovers between differing Disney movies. I'm just kinda curious as to how many other crossover comics are there? i know there was that italian Neverending Story parody with a bunch a cameos from Disney characters

[megamau]

Feb 16, 2024 1:32:33 GMT m1ttens said:

Lately i've been thinking about those old Christmas Disney comics which frequently featured crossovers between differing Disney movies. I'm just kinda curious as to how many other crossover comics are there? i know there was that italian Neverending Story parody with a bunch a cameos from Disney characters

You can easily check from INDUCKS by indicating two characthers from different universes.
These are all the stories with Donald Duck and Snow White

DD + Snow White

And this is the only story with Mickey Mouse and Sleeping Beauty

L'Incredibile

[Matilda]

And the short answer is: there are a SLEW of crossover comics mixing together characters from different universes, from comics and from movies. Like you, I think first of the Christmas Giants. But back in the day in the USA there were also the stories with the Cinderella mice (and once even Dumbo!) on Grandma Duck's farm in the Grandma Duck comic books, stories in Walt Disney's Comics & Stories such as this, the story in Beagle Boys 1 of the Doers of Dastardly Deeds club including Mim, Beagles, Peg-Leg Pete, the Big Bad Wolf, the Wicked Witch, and Captain Hook!, etc., etc. Mim herself living in a cabin in the woods near Duckburg in WDCS, which established her as a character in the Duckworld in comics here and abroad. The Wicked Witch showing up in "The Golden Christmas Tree," because the editors made Barks do it. And the mixing continued in other countries' comics, perhaps especially Italian comics. Though in some cases those are literary parodies where the Disney characters are playing roles as characters within the parodied story, not purely playing themselves. The Brazilians seem to have done a lot of universe-mixing as well. Also, the Dutch have a long tradition of writing long stories celebrating anniversaries where they throw in everyone but the kitchen sink.

[djnyr]

The Big Bad Wolf also popped up in at least two of the Barks-drawn, Lockman-written Grandma Duck stories, and Bre'er Fox in another (the same one as the Dumbo appearance Matilda linked to above). Gil Turner also did an earlier Big Bad Wolf/Li'l Bad Wolf story with none other than Donald himself as a guest star.  Incidentally, while I like the Disney "forest" universe (consisting of the Wolves and the Bre'er Rabbit set of characters), I have to say that having it cross over with the Ducks' world is a little jarring, mainly because of the difference in anthropomorphism levels of the two universes.  Zeke Wolf in his own world is a humanized but still animal predator, and it doesn't feel weird when he's trying to eat the Pigs or Bre'er Fox and Bre'er Bear are trying to eat Bre'er Rabbit--whereas, when Zeke starts trying to cook and eat Donald, who's more wholly a human character, the Wolf suddenly becomes a cannibal serial killer.  

[megamau]

Feb 17, 2024 0:20:24 GMT djnyr said:

The Big Bad Wolf also popped up in at least two of the Barks-drawn, Lockman-written Grandma Duck stories, and Bre'er Fox in another (the same one as the Dumbo appearance Matilda linked to above). Gil Turner also did an earlier Big Bad Wolf/Li'l Bad Wolf story with none other than Donald himself as a guest star.  Incidentally, while I like the Disney "forest" universe (consisting of the Wolves and the Bre'er Rabbit set of characters), I have to say that having it cross over with the Ducks' world is a little jarring, mainly because of the difference in anthropomorphism levels of the two universes.  Zeke Wolf in his own world is a humanized but still animal predator, and it doesn't feel weird when he's trying to eat the Pigs or Bre'er Fox and Bre'er Bear are trying to eat Bre'er Rabbit--whereas, when Zeke starts trying to cook and eat Donald, who's more wholly a human character, the Wolf suddenly becomes a cannibal serial killer.  

I did not remember the two Carl Barks stories. so I went back to read them. 
In my opinion Zeke Wolf is at the same level of anthropomorphism of the ducks, acting more like an antagonistic neighbour (in the spirit of Jones or Anacleto) rather than an "animal predator".  
In both stories he gets ahold of some of Grandma Duck animals (the horse and the sheeps respectively) but he uses them for transportation or for wool rather than as food.
Grandma and HLD also don't seem to be particularly scared of him.

[djnyr]

You're right, in both the Grandma stories, Zeke just comes off as the local rustler/thief/petty criminal; Lockman used him that way in other Grandma stories not drawn by Barks. When I talked about his presence being disturbing, I was thinking of the Gil Turner story with Donald, where Zeke is trying to turn Donald into a duck dinner.

[RobbK1]

Even Peter Pan, Pinocchio, Bongo Bear, The Midget Moose, and other, seldom used in comic books Disney film characters often appeared together with Mickey and Donald in the giant annuals' stories, especially those with titles related to Disneyland, between 1955 and 1961.