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Super Mario Adventures is an anthology of comics that ran in Nintendo Power
magazine throughout 1992, featuring the characters from Nintendo's Mario
series and based loosely off of Super Mario World. Charlie Nozawa, the artist who created the comics, is known in Japan by the pen name Tamakichi Sakura. Kentaro Takekuma was responsible for the story, which follows Mario and Luigi as they attempt to rescue Princess Peach after she is abducted by Bowser with intent to marry her.

It marks the first time the Mario universe is developed into a livable place, as the comic was made before Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars or any other story- or exploration-heavy Mario game. It's notable for its use of the many gameplay devices in the Mario series as elements of everyday life. For example, Mario plays a psychologist and treats the social anxiety of a Boo (an ghost enemy in the videogame series that disappears whenever the player is facing it).

When the comic originally ran, it ran alongside a just-as-long serial based off of The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past. Both serials were later reprinted in separate graphic novels published at the time of the magazine's fiftieth issue.

Image:SMA-Boo.jpg|Mario consoles the Big Boo. Image:SMA-SuperKoopa.jpg|The Koopa Kids play a game suspiciously similar to Super Mario Bros. Image:SMA-YoshiTranslation.jpg|From "Yoshi Language Series: Level One." Image:SMA-BowserGroom.jpg|Bowser in a suit. Image:SMA-Wedding.jpg|Mario needs a boost. Image:SMA-Cape.jpg|The Princess discovers flight. Image:SMA-BlueShell.jpg|So does Yoshi. Image:SMA-PeachDrag.jpg|Princess Toadstool disguises herself as Luigi.

Synopsis

The story opens in the Mushroom Kingdom with Mario and Luigi approaching the Mushroom Castle, singing a theme song about themselves and their occupation. Immediately following the song, the guard at the front door leads them to the basement, which they have been assigned to clean up for Princess Peach's party tonight (which isn't mentioned again afterwards). Luigi isn't in the mood for fixing the pipes and would rather eat, but Mario gets right to work, singing as he does so. Just then, gigantic pipes start popping up in the basement and in the courtyard. Various enemies from Super Mario World pop out of the pipes and attack the guards, but the Mario Bros. fight back. Following the scuffle, Bowser comes out of the largest of the pipes in his Koopa Clown Car. By way of rap, he introduces himself and proposes marriage to Princess Peach. Refusing to take no for an answer, Bowser threatens to turn her people to stone if she doesn't accept, and he demonstrates on the guards (as a visual gag, he freezes the letters in their scream as well). Though her servants fear they have no choice, Peach refuses to give in, especially when the guard captain remembers that they still have Mario and Luigi to help them. Unfortunately, Mario has also been turned to stone, and again the servants feel doomed. But Peach still doesn't let that stop her, and she demands Bowser to "put up his dukes". The Koopa King promptly leaves, giving Peach one week to decide on his proposal, but Peach rallies her troops and takes off after him.

Luigi can't revive the stone-turned Mario, so the servants call up the Minister of Massage, who begins massaging Mario in the manner of karate. One week later, the stone is melted off of Mario and he wakes up. Upon hearing that Peach has taken action against Bowser, he grabs Luigi and they give chase. Meanwhile, in the desert, Peach's troops are whining about their lack of hydration, but Peach refuses to let that stop her. Just then, a pack of Lakitus show up and and attack them with Spinys.

In the meantime, the Mario Bros. crash-land in the middle of a forest island and find a large egg, which they decide to cook. But then the egg cracks open to reveal a grateful Yoshi. Having never seen him before (keep in mind this was made before Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island), the Marios mistake Yoshi's attempted thankfulness for hunger (he can't speak English) and flee in terror from him. The Bros. then encounter a Wiggler, which Yoshi then saves them from. The dinosaur then has the plumbers get on his back, and he takes them to the nearby Yoshi Village, where they meet Friendly Floyd, who explains to them that Yoshi is the Chairman of the Dinosaur Chamber of Commerce, and he had gone looking for some missing villagers when Bowser trapped him in the egg. Mario asks Floyd if he can stick around to provide translation for Yoshi's language, but instead the salesman sells them an ACME Yoshi language translation book for ten coins (it usually costs 3,000 coins, but Floyd is willing to cheapen the price since they're friends of Yoshi). Shortly after Floyd leaves, though, the Marios discover that the book is useless - everything in it is simply translated as "Yoshi." Just then, Toad arrives to inform the Bros. that Peach has been captured.

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