Walt Kelly&s Peter Wheat comics are renowned for their humor artistic flair & appeal to both children & adults The Peter Wheat comic books are extremely rare & have never been collected as a series before due to their scarcity & rarity Between 1948 & 1951 Kelly drew thirty-five issues of The Adventures of Peter Wheat a sixteen page comic book given away to bakeries to promote Peter Wheat bread The stories were fairy tales starring Peter Wheat an elf-sized boy who lived in a hollow tree on the edge of a wheat field where he & the Little Folk battle Dragonel Queen of the Hornets While created with kids in mind the mythology spun in these stories is timeless “ Coupled with Kelly&s incredible artwork this series of stories which run in arcs are indispensable in Walt Kelly&s canon of work” commented Dr Thomas Andrae editor of this series Peter Wheat production history was written by Walt Kelly biographer Steve Thomson for this volume