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==Comic adaptations== A Sunday [[Silly Symphony (comic strip)|''Silly Symphony'' comic strip]] ran in newspapers from January 10, 1932, to July 12, 1942.<ref name="Holtz">{{Cite book |last=Holtz |first=Allan |title=American Newspaper Comics: An Encyclopedic Reference Guide |date=2012 |publisher=The University of Michigan Press |isbn=9780472117567 |location=Ann Arbor |page=351}}</ref> The strip featured adaptations of some of the ''Silly Symphony'' cartoons, including ''Birds of a Feather'', ''The Robber Kitten'', ''Elmer Elephant'', ''Farmyard Symphony'' and ''Little Hiawatha''.<ref name=Holtz/> This strip began with a two-year sequence about [[Bucky Bug]], a character based on the bugs in ''[[Bugs in Love]]''. There was also an occasional ''Silly Symphonies'' comic book, with nine issues published by [[Dell Comics]] from September 1952 to February 1959.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Silly Symphonies - Inducks |url=https://inducks.org/publication.php?c=us%2FSS |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200610155716/https://inducks.org/publication.php?c=us%2FSS |archive-date=10 June 2020 |access-date=14 July 2019 |website=Inducks}}</ref> The first issue of this anthology comic featured adaptations of some ''Silly Symphony'' cartoons, including ''The Grasshopper and the Ants'', ''Three Little Pigs'', ''The Goddess of Spring'' and ''Mother Pluto'', but it also included non-''Symphony'' cartoons like Mickey Mouse's ''[[Brave Little Tailor]]''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Silly Symphonies #1 - Inducks |url=https://inducks.org/issue.php?c=us%2FSS++++1 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210509235412/https://inducks.org/issue.php?c=us%2FSS++++1 |archive-date=9 May 2021 |access-date=14 July 2019 |website=Inducks}}</ref> By the third issue, there was almost no ''Symphony''-related material in the book; the stories and activities were mostly based on other Disney shorts and feature films.
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