Disney Princess Comics Treasury

by Walt Disney Company

ALL THE GRACE, ALL THE WONDER, ONE EPIC BOOK!

For years, Disney’s Princesses have charmed audiences the world over in their spellbinding animated films, winning the day with wit and pluck as the power of love keeps the darkness at bay. Return to these thrilling worlds of magic, danger and romance in this timeless graphic novel collection from Disney’s own master artists. Every Disney Princess film is retold in this 800-page storytime treasure that Princess fans will cherish for a lifetime.

STORIES INCLUDE


Snow White
Cinderella
Sleeping Beauty
The Little Mermaid
Beauty and the Beast
Aladdin
Pocahontas
Mulan
Princess and the Frog
Tangled
Brave

Genres: Graphic Novels, Comics, Fantasy, Childrens

800 pages, Paperback

First published February 10, 2015

About the author

Note: The decision was made to consolidate all Disney publications under the name Walt Disney Company. This profile is for Walt Disney, the characters he created, and the company he founded. Any questions, please ask in the Librarian's Group.

Walter Elias “Walt” Disney (December 5, 1901 – December 15, 1966) was an American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur, entertainer, international icon, and philanthropist. Disney is famous for his influence in the field of entertainment during the 20th century. As the co-founder (with his brother Roy O. Disney) of Walt Disney Productions, Disney became one of the best-known motion picture producers in the world. The corporation he co-founded, now known as The Walt Disney Company, today has annual revenues of approximately U.S. $35 billion.

Disney is particularly noted for being a film producer and a popular showman, as well as an innovator in animation and theme park design. He and his staff created some of the world's most famous fictional characters including Mickey Mouse, a character for which Disney himself was the original voice. He has been awarded four honorary Academy Awards and has won twenty-two competitive Academy Awards out of fifty-nine nominations, including a record four in one year, giving him more awards and nominations than any other individual. He also won seven Emmy Awards. He is the namesake for Disneyland and Walt Disney World Resort theme parks in the United States, as well as the international resorts Tokyo Disney, Disneyland Paris, and Disneyland Hong Kong.

Disney died of lung cancer in Burbank, California, on December 15, 1966. The following year, construction began on Walt Disney World Resort in Florida. His brother Roy Disney inaugurated the Magic Kingdom on October 1, 1971.

The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS) (commonly referred to as Disney) is the largest media and entertainment conglomerate in the world in terms of revenue. Founded on October 16, 1923, by brothers Walt Disney and Roy Disney as the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio, the company was reincorporated as Walt Disney Productions in 1929. Walt Disney Productions established itself as a leader in the American animation industry before diversifying into live-action film production, television, and travel. Taking on its current name in 1986, The Walt Disney Company expanded its existing operations and also started divisions focused upon theatre, radio, publishing, and online media. In addition, it has created new divisions of the company in order to market more mature content than it typically associates with its flagship family-oriented brands.

The company is best known for the products of its film studio, the Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group, today one of the largest and best-known studios in Hollywood. Disney also owns and operates the ABC broadcast television network; cable television networks such as Disney Channel, ESPN, and ABC Family; publishing, merchandising, and theatre divisions; and owns and licenses 11 theme parks around the world. On January 23, 2006, it was announced that Disney would purchase Pixar in an all-stock transaction worth $7.4 billion. The deal was finalized on May 5. On December 31, 2009, Disney Company acquired the Marvel Entertainment, Inc. for $4.24 billion. The company has been a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average since May 6, 1991. An early and well-known cartoon creation of the company, Mickey Mouse, is the official mascot of The Walt Disney Company.

--from Wikipedia

Reviews

[kate]

I’m not entirely sure how to rate this. On the on hand it was absolutely awful but it was so awful to the point where it was kind of hilarious? Each story was so incredibly simplified to fit into such a short comic, that it almost felt like a parody of itself. I’m a major Disney fan, so it would have been near impossible for me to dislike this and no matter how diluted the stories were, I found them a lot of fun (even if it was simply because of how ridiculous they were). The bizarre change of song lyrics and references to other Disney stories were so bad it was almost good but I’m sure I would have adored this had I been the age it was actually targeted towards.

[Bailey Marissa · Rating 4 out of 5]

First of all, this thing is H U G E at 800 pages, so brace yourselves if you want to read it.

Though it was a really summarized version of each story, it was really interesting to see the different art styles mixed into the old styling of comics. There were also new stories so it wasn't just rereading all of the princess stories over and over.

Recommended 6+ for Disney magic and violence.

[Arnela · Rating 4 out of 5]

It's similar to the Disney Pixar Comics Treasury in that it's a hefty 800+ pages of comic versions of Disney films. The plots are a little simplified to get all these stories in this huge book, and they're written in such a way that young readers won't have any trouble reading this on their own.

The big difference between this and the Pixar anthology is that the Pixar comics felt like they were drawn more recently, and some of the artists took a few slight liberties in how they depicted the characters. You can tell who everyone is, it's just that they have the small nuances of each different artists own style. The Disney anthology feels like they simply took the comic versions that were made to accompany the film from previous Disney comics and simply added them to the compendium. I say that's what it looks like, because even though there's different artists and colorists for each story it still feels like they're doing their hardest to match the style and color tones from the movie [and frankly that's my favorite part of the whole book]. There's also little side stories for a few characters, which increases the feeling that they're from other Disney comics.

And sure they have to skip through my favorite parts of the movies [the songs] but songs are kinda tough when written down in panels [sure as an adult I'd love that, but most kids might not have the tonality knowledge to read the rhythm of the sentences]. And yeah, because the stories are condensed versions with simplified plot we do have moments where an important character will say a well known line differently than we remember [the most notable one I can remember is Cinderella's fairy godmother says "Abracadabra" instead of bibbity-bobbity-boo], and I know it's to make it easier to read for kids, but if your kid has seen the movie, and can read, they can probably manage that line.

The only big problem I have with this book [and the Pixar treasury] is that the covers are very flimsy paperbacks, and the pages inside feel more like the newsprint sort of paper used for Sunday comics. And I'm a grown adult, and I've already put in a dent or two on accident to the cover [and I worked hard to pull out a good conditioned book from the store]. These covers are so easy to mess up that you can see dents and bends and rips on them just from them being shipped out to the store. So just be careful, cause they're kinda easy to break.

[Sierra 🌸 · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was great. I love Disney movies, especially the princess ones. I didn’t read this straight through in order. I went through and read all of the original stories and then went back and read all of the extra stories. It was cool, because I hadn’t actually seen all of the movies that are included. I haven’t ever seen Tangled, Princess and the Frog, or Brave so at least now I know how the stories play out. And a lot of the ones I have seen I haven’t seen in a long time. I wanted to pick out favorites and least favorites and go into more details, but I just loved it all. The only thing I didn’t like was the lack of Frozen, because I adore Frozen. I want a Volume 2 with all the new Disney princess movies that have come out in the past few years. I especially loved some of the extra stories. As much as this book made me want to go watch all of these movies again, it made me want to go watch the tv shows even more. I had forgotten how much time I spent when I was little watching the Aladdin and Little Mermaid tv shows. The extra stories made me feel so nostalgic for these days. I’ve never stopped watching the movies so the original stories didn’t have that same nostalgic effect, but they were still a lot of fun. This was just awesome.

[Sara · Rating 5 out of 5]

I have read this to my niece whenever it is almost time for nap tap. we both really enjoyed it and I am trying to teach her how to read comic books at a young age! lol. So this was both fun for both of us.

[read chelsea read · Rating 1 out of 5]

I picked this up because I am a Disney queen and I loved the Alice in Wonderland comic, but this book just didn't do it for me. It didn't feel the same.

[Katy Lovejoy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Always love the disney princesses

[Brittany · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a book that you need to have an open mind about to read. There were some changes because while it does retell the stories in comic form it also has some originality to it. The book tells the original tales of all the princesses excluding Anna and Elsa which I don't mind because there's still a lot of Frozen hype going on. This is all a book strictly on the princesses. It also includes other stories such as Ariel's underwater adventures before she came above the sea to live with Eric. It's just like the episodes we watched when we were younger. I love how we see how Ursula got her own cavern which was pretty damn cool and totally something she would do. I loved that princess Jasmine got more than just one story in this book. I was expecting a bunch of stories mostly surrounding the first three princesses because I feel like they are paid more attention to than any of the other princesses. The other stories for the princesses were cute and very creative. I enjoyed them because it allowed me to see some of the princesses before or after their lives being wed. I wish I saw an original Jasmine comic 'cause she is my favorite. But we got all three of her movies in comic form instead. The art work was very well done and I enjoyed looking at all the pages and admiring it so it took a little longer to finish. I would've given this 5 stars, but there were little things here and there that bothered me like the character not wearing the right color outfit and of course Jasmine not having an original story. And some of the princesses did get more attention than the others. Ariel, Jasmine, Belle, Mulan, Cinderella, and Snow White all had more than one story which I didn't really mind. I just would've liked to see all of them have another story besides the ones we knew them from. I felt like Ariel practically hogged the book with her tales. So we could've definitely had more than one story from the others if we slimmed Ariel down or even Belle who I felt hogged it a little too. But over all it was enjoyable. I would not recommend this book if you are a hardcore Disney fan where everything has to be perfect for you. Trust me you will nit pick this book. Also probably don't read this or share this with your children if they have that problem. I feel this book can be a great read for children who love Disney, but they might know their characters better than you think and have a problem with change. Good book, very creative, just needed more equality among the princesses.

[Kirsty · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a lot of fun and helped me refresh my mind of Disney movies I haven't seen in years (Pocahontas) or never seen (Princess and the Frog) and my all time favourites are in there too (Mulan, Sleeping Beauty). I skipped some of the smaller stories that took place in the same world as the original, for instance, there are seven Little Mermaid stories (including the original) but I just wasn't interested in reading them all. This book would also be ideal for young children and is something I wish I had when I was little because a lot of the art is gorgeous.

[MKF · Rating 1 out of 5]

Horrible retellings of the Disney classic princess stories. If you grew up with these stories and loved them then do not read these. The Fairy Godmother in Cinderella is now her Godmother the Good Fairy and says abracadabra not bibbity boppity boo. This deserves 0 stars.

[Mikayla]

love it

[Christen Lee · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another amazing collection of comics of your favourite Disney princess tales!!!!!