Kay, an innocent little boy, was affected by tiny shards of an evil mirror accidentally imbedded in his skin.
Now cruel and mean, the lad tormented his playmates, including his best friend Gerda, who, though confused by his actions, still loved Kay.
While involved in a snowball fight, Kay was swept away by the immortal Snow Queen, who took him to her ice palace.
Gerda,
worried and despondent, decided to go in search of Kay, and, after
meeting an old witch and young prince & princess, she encounters
even more danger...
Tomorrow:
Written by
Gaylord Du Bois and illustrated by Lea Bing, this never-reprinted tale from Dell's Fairy Tale Parade #9 (1943) is the only comic book adaptation of the Hand Christian Andersen fairy tale that serves as the (very loose) basis of the current Disney movie Frozen!
In the late 1990s, buoyed by the incredible success of their adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's
Little Mermaid,
Disney started work on an adaptation of
Snow Queen, but the project was scrapped completely in late 2002, despite the fact it was headed by Glen Keane, who had directed
Little Mermaid!
The project was revived again around 2008 under the title of Anna and the Snow Queen, and was planned to be traditional cel animation.
Less
than two years later, the project was abandoned when the writers and
artists failed to find a way to make the story and the Snow Queen character "work" for a modern audience.
More tomorrow...
