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Issue Details

Issue #43
Published April 1978
Cover Price 0.35 USD
Pages 36
Editing Del Connell
Notes Only Elliott is drawn, all other images are movie still photos. Exists in both Gold Key and Whitman editions, per logos on cover.

Cover Details - "Pete's Dragon"

Characters Pete; Elliott; Nora; Lampie
Genre fantasy
Pencils ?; ? (movie still photos)
Inks ?; ? (movie still photos)
Colors ?; ? (movie still photos)
Letters typeset
Notes Only Elliott is drawn, all other images are movie still photos. Exists in both Gold Key and Whitman editions, per logos on cover.

1 page Spider-Man advertisement "Spider-Man vs The Chairman!"

Characters Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; The Chairman; police officer; two children
Synopsis The Chairman is about to turn Spider-Man into a chair when the children distract him with Hostess Twinkies, causing his chair gun to misfire and turning him into a chair instead.
Genre Super-hero
Pencils Sal Buscema
Inks Joe Sinnott ?
Notes Ad for Hostess Twinkies. Printed on inside front cover. Buscema and Sinnott (attributed) credits from auction of original art on Heritage Auction Galleries in January 2006.

25 page Pete's Dragon story "Pete's Dragon"

Characters Lena Gogan; Mr. Gogan; 2 Gogan sons; Pete; Elliott; Lampie; Nora; Doctor Terminus; Hoagy; Miss Taylor; Paul; unnamed townsfolk
Synopsis An orphan named Pete is running from the wicked Gogan family that bought the rights to look after him. Elliott, Pete's guardian dragon, defeats a plan by Doctor Terminus to trap and kill him, and everyone lives happily ever after, when Elliot reunites Nora and Paul, who take in Pete.
Genre fantasy
Script Mary Carey
Pencils Dan Spiegle; Larry Mayer (drew Elliott the Dragon)
Inks Dan Spiegle; Larry Mayer (drew Elliott the Dragon)
Notes Movie adaptation.