Super Mario Adventures #3-4

[deh_tommy]

#3:















Meanwhile, while Mario was out stone-cold, Peach and her Royal Guard were ambushed and kidnapped by Bowser’s minions.

#4:

Bowser hijacks the Koopalings’ gaming session to warn them to keep an eye on Peach and make sure she doesn’t escape before his big wedding day.

Comments

[crinos]

Yeah, I owned a copy of the complete collection of this comic years ago (It even included a back up story covering Super Mario Land 2 and Mario's feud with Wario).

I love how even back then writers were railing against the idea of Peach being a passive captive and having her try and escape on her own.

[lbd_nytetrayn]

There's one for Zelda: A Link to the Past, too. Fine comic, but kinda lousy as an adaptation. Better as it's own thing; go with the manga (also published by Viz) if you want something more faithful.

What disappoints me is that Nintendo/Nintendo Power did their own trades of these back in the '90s, but aside from the covers, these are almost exactly the same. In Zelda's case, that's fine, but for Mario, that means the SECOND Mario & Wario comic (in which the two try to one-up each other by getting the Princess a Samus plush she wanted for her birthday) has still yet to be reprinted or collected.

Further disappointing is that neither Nintendo nor Viz ever collected the Star Fox or Super Metroid comics that ran in the respective subsequent years. It's probably my favorite version of Star Fox, to boot, so that sucks extra hard.

[crinos]

I actually had the Zelda trade too.
I had part of the Starfox comic series (I subscribed to Nintendo power around the time it was running, near the end of that one). I mainly remember during the final battle when Fox found out that Andross was behind his dad getting lost in space Fox went absolutely feral with white eyes and snarling teeth and it was really scary.

I also had the entire run of the Metroid comic. (Which featured a second space mercenary in blue armor identical to Samus named Armstrong Houston, kind of a proto Adam Malkovitch. I guess they wanted a male character in there and also someone they could exposit to and explain Samus' origins to).