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Walt Disney Showcase Issue #26: Lt. Robin Crusoe, U.S.N                             Comic
Also features an extra 16-page fun catalog with ads for vintage toys.  Awesome!!
Originally Written/Created by: Walt Disney
Writer: ???
Artist: Dan Spiegle
Cover by: Movie Photo

Lt. Robin Crusoe U.S.N. is a 1966 comedy film released and scripted by Walt Disney, and starring Dick Van Dyke as a U.S. Navy pilot who becomes a castaway on a tropical island. Some filming took place in San Diego, while a majority of the film was shot on Kauai, Hawaii. The story was loosely based on Daniel Defoe’s classic 1719 novel Robinson Crusoe. It was Walt Disney’s idea to make the adaptation, and this is the only film in which he received a story credit (as “Retlaw Yensid”).

High in the sky, above the far, lonely reaches of the Southwest Pacific, a frantic cry for help suddenly crackles across the air waves…

Now it’s time to relive the magic of Walt Disney’s Lt. Robin Crusoe, U.S.N in Gold Key / Western Publishing’s one-shot comic adaptation of the 1966 classic.

Story/Spoilers
While flying a routine mission for the U.S. Navy from his aircraft carrier, an emergency causes Lieutenant Robin “Rob” Crusoe (Van Dyke) to eject from his F-8 Crusader into the ocean. Crusoe drifts on the ocean in an emergency life raft for several days and nights until landing on an uninhabited island. He builds a shelter for himself, fashions new clothing out of available materials, and begins to scout the island, discovering an abandoned Japanese submarine from World War II. Scouring the submarine, Crusoe also discovers a NASA astrochimp named Floyd, played by Dinky. Using tools and blueprints found in the submarine, Crusoe and Floyd construct a Japanese pavilion, a golf course, and a mail delivery system for sending bottles containing missives to his fiancee out to sea. Soon after, the castaway discovers that the island is not entirely uninhabited when he encounters a beautiful island girl (Nancy Kwan), whom he names Wednesday. Wednesday recounts that due to her unwillingness to marry, her chieftain father, Tanamashuhi (Akim Tamiroff), plans to sacrifice her and her sisters to Kaboona, an immense effigy on the island with whom he pretends to communicate. The day Tanamashu arrives on the island, Crusoe uses paraphernalia from the submarine to combat him, culminating in the destruction of the Kaboona statue. After the battle, Crusoe and Tanamashu make peace. But when Crusoe makes it known that he does not wish to marry Wednesday, he is forced to flee to avoid her wrath. Pursued by a mob of irate island women, he is spotted by a U.S. Navy helicopter and he and Floyd narrowly escape with their lives. Large crowds turn out for their arrival on an aircraft carrier deck, but Floyd steals all the limelight.

Comic is bagged & triple boarded and will be carefully / securely packaged then shipped via USPS Priority Mail to ensure that it arrives to you perfectly and quickly.

First Printing
Publisher: Gold Key / Western Publishing
Publication Date: 1974
Format: FC, 52 pages, Comic, 10.25″ x 6.5″
UPC: None Stated

Collectible Entertainment note: One-shot Comic is in Very Good condition.  (significant spine stress & front cover has creases) Overall… Nice Reading Copy!  Please See Scans!!  A must have for any serious Disney and/or Robinson Crusoe collector / enthusiast.  A fun & entertaining read.  Recommended.

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