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* CompanyCrossReferences: The comic leans into the Creator/{{Disney}} corporate synergy in the second story, by having Denise dressed as WesternAnimation/{{Pocahontas}} for Halloween, and two of the Irving kids as WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse and WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}.
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* ProductPlacement: The comic leans into the Creator/{{Disney}} corporate synergy in the second story, by having Denise dressed as WesternAnimation/{{Pocahontas}} for Halloween, and two of the Irving kids as WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse and WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}.
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* FreeRangeChildren: To the extent that they first meet each other in the woods where Denise is enjoying a casual stroll by herself, and where Adam says his brother "and his creepy friends" hang out. Eventually {{exaggerated|Trope}} in the third story where D & A are sent to Tokyo. The comic never even introduces the duo's respective parents; Adam talks briefly about his parents, but Denise's parents aren't even ''mentioned''.
** Somewhat {{justified|Trope}} with the Irving kids in the second story, as Denise reminds Adam that they're helping Mrs. Irving out by babysitting while she's visiting a sick friend.
** Somewhat {{justified|Trope}} with the Irving kids in the second story, as Denise reminds Adam that they're helping Mrs. Irving out by babysitting while she's visiting a sick friend.
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* TheGhost: The entire rest of the SWSC, which is particularly egregious because they're supposed to be this huge international organization. The only members we meet (besides Denise and Adam) are Tim, Maria, Mecha-Mole, and Mecha-Moth.
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* TheGhost: TheGhost:
** The entire rest of the SWSC, which is particularly egregious because they're supposed to be this huge international organization. The only members we meet (besides Denise and Adam) are Tim, Maria, Mecha-Mole, andMecha-Moth.Mecha-Moth.
** We never meet Adam's brother, who he's waiting to ambush in the first story.
** The entire rest of the SWSC, which is particularly egregious because they're supposed to be this huge international organization. The only members we meet (besides Denise and Adam) are Tim, Maria, Mecha-Mole, and
** We never meet Adam's brother, who he's waiting to ambush in the first story.
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* AliensSpeakingEnglish: All of the Malig-Nots speak English to the heroes and to each other, allowing Denise and Adam to overhear Prince Malevolon's plans. There's no {{lampshading}} of this, and no mention of TranslatorMicrobes that would enable this.
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* AntiquatedLinguistics: Denise and Adam are surprised by Captain Tim's reaction to Commander Maria's news about the Malig-Not invasion.
-->'''Captain Tim:''' Jiminy!\\
'''Adam:''' ''[whispering]'' Did he just say "jiminy"??\\
'''Denise:''' ''[whispering]'' I think he did.
-->'''Captain Tim:''' Jiminy!\\
'''Adam:''' ''[whispering]'' Did he just say "jiminy"??\\
'''Denise:''' ''[whispering]'' I think he did.
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* FantasticRankSystem: The SWSC. Denise and Adam start off as provisional members before becoming Agents of Altruism, Tim and Mecha-Mole are Captains of Decency, and Maria is a Commander of Charisma.
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* FantasticRankSystem: The SWSC. Denise and Adam start off as provisional members before becoming Agents of Altruism, Tim and Mecha-Mole are Captains of Decency, and Maria is appears to be in a leadership role as a Commander of Charisma.
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* BrokenAesop: In the third story, Captain Tim tells D & A to call him for backup in case the situation with Kitora gets dangerous, saying, "The SWSC uses teamwork more than anything to solve a crisis." D & A promptly ''don't'' do this when they get to Tokyo and find that Kitora is a rampaging {{Kaiju}}. Though the duo do successfully manage to handle the situation by themselves, it's not brought up again at the end of the story.
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* RedOniBlueOni: Adam is red and Denise is blue.
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* RedOniBlueOni: Adam is red (he's a lighthearted jokester, and more than willing to [[LeeroyJenkins blindly fly in guns blazing]] than come up with a plan), and Denise is blue.blue (she's brainy and methodical, and more likely to come up with a solution to a problem after examining the situation fully).
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* SpiritualSuccessor: ''Disney Adventures'' would later try the "secret organization fighting aliens and monsters" thing again in 1999 with the ''Super Music Action Ready Team'' comics.
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* SpiritualSuccessor: SpiritualSuccessor:
** ''D & A'' seems to be one for ''DA Casebusters'', a recurring non-comic serial about two fictional {{Kid Detective}}s, which ran in ''Disney Adventures'' during the magazine's production in Burbank.
** After ''D & A'''s cancellation, ''Disney Adventures'' would later try the "secret organization fighting aliens and monsters" thing again in 1999 with the ''Super Music Action Ready Team'' comics.
** ''D & A'' seems to be one for ''DA Casebusters'', a recurring non-comic serial about two fictional {{Kid Detective}}s, which ran in ''Disney Adventures'' during the magazine's production in Burbank.
** After ''D & A'''s cancellation, ''Disney Adventures'' would later try the "secret organization fighting aliens and monsters" thing again in 1999 with the ''Super Music Action Ready Team'' comics.
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* SiblingRivalry: Adam and his brother. Adam actually meets Denise because he's waiting to ambush his brother with grape jelly, in retaliation for his brother blaming Adam for tracking mud in the house.
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* {{Flight}}: Denise and Adam are both capable of this by the third story; Denise can fly with help from her transgravitational umbrella, and Adam can fly with his rocket boots.
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* EarlyBirdCameo: Denise and Adam's SWSC uniforms, as well as Adam's electro-wrench, are first shown in Heidi [=MacDonald=]'s column introducing the comic (as seen in the page image above). They wouldn't appear in the comic proper until the third (and final) story.
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* BlandNameProduct: The band that Adam is listening to in the third story is called the Smashing Walnuts, a thinly-disguised version of Music/TheSmashingPumpkins.
* ChekhovsBoomerang: The rocket boots from the first story reappear and are used in the third, after Captain Tim gives them to Adam.
* ChekhovsGun: The holographic wrist communicators in the second story, and Adam's Walkman in the third.
* ChekhovsBoomerang: The rocket boots from the first story reappear and are used in the third, after Captain Tim gives them to Adam.
* ChekhovsGun: The holographic wrist communicators in the second story, and Adam's Walkman in the third.
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* SavedForTheSequel: Doctor Feral, the Ultimate Machine, the Dollmaker, and the Prattler were ostensibly to be used in future stories, but this ultimately [[CutShort didn't happen]].
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* DramaQueen: Commander Maria in the first story, as she tells Captain Tim that the SWSC repelling the invading Malig-Not fleet is going to mean certain death. Tim explains to Denise and Adam that she tends to be dramatic, but he still looks incredibly shaken.
* ExpositionDump: The third story included Captain Tim and Commander Maria going over the SWSC's RoguesGallery in detail, before being sidetracked by the Kitora situation.
* ExpositionDump: The third story included Captain Tim and Commander Maria going over the SWSC's RoguesGallery in detail, before being sidetracked by the Kitora situation.
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* DramaQueen: Commander Maria in the first story, as she tells Captain Tim that the SWSC repelling the invading Malig-Not fleet is going to mean certain death. Tim explains to Denise and Adam that she Maria tends to be dramatic, but he still looks incredibly shaken.
* ExpositionDump: The third storyincluded includes Captain Tim and Commander Maria going over the SWSC's RoguesGallery in detail, before being sidetracked by the Kitora situation.
* ExpositionDump: The third story
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''The Adventures of D & A'' is a comic written and illustrated by Mike Duggan that ran in ''Magazine/DisneyAdventures'' from 1997 to 1998.
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''The Adventures of D & A'' is a comic written and illustrated by Mike Michael Patrick Duggan that ran in ''Magazine/DisneyAdventures'' from 1997 to 1998.
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* '''"Halloweenie Roast"''' (November 1997): While babysitting some kids on Halloween, Denise and Adam run afoul of the Darkwyne Ogre, a longtime target of the SWSC.
* '''"The Really Really Cute Little Monster that Ate Tokyo!"''' (January 1998): In their first outing as SWSC Agents of Altruism -- and [[CutShort last outing in the magazine]] -- D & A are assigned the task of transporting to Japan to stop a cutesy lizard monster called Kitora that turns out to be a bigger of a problem than they originally thought.
* '''"The Really Really Cute Little Monster that Ate Tokyo!"''' (January 1998): In their first outing as SWSC Agents of Altruism -- and [[CutShort last outing in the magazine]] -- D & A are assigned the task of transporting to Japan to stop a cutesy lizard monster called Kitora that turns out to be a bigger of a problem than they originally thought.
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* '''"Halloweenie Roast"''' (November 1997): While babysitting some kids on Halloween, Denise and Adam run afoul of the Darkwyne Ogre, a longtime target of the SWSC.
SWSC, who wants to boil the kids in a stew.
* '''"The Really Really Cute Little Monster that Ate Tokyo!"''' (January 1998): In their first outing as SWSC Agents of Altruism -- and [[CutShort last outing in the magazine]] -- D & A are assigned the task of transporting to Japan to stop a cutesy lizard monster called Kitora that turns out to be a biggerof a problem than they originally thought.
* '''"The Really Really Cute Little Monster that Ate Tokyo!"''' (January 1998): In their first outing as SWSC Agents of Altruism -- and [[CutShort last outing in the magazine]] -- D & A are assigned the task of transporting to Japan to stop a cutesy lizard monster called Kitora that turns out to be a bigger
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* {{Kaiju}}: Kitora is a Kaiju from a place called Monsterland Island.
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* IndyPloy: Basically how D & A solve anything. They defeat the Malig-Nots by haphazardly transporting themselves into the Malig-Not hideout and smashing their transporter, they defeat the Darkwyne Ogre by distracting her with a hologram of Mecha-Mole, and they stop Kitora's rampage by haphazardly figuring out their new gadgets on the fly and distracting him with Adam's Walkman.
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* IndyPloy: Basically how D & A solve anything. They defeat the Malig-Nots by haphazardly transporting themselves into the Malig-Not hideout and smashing their transporter, they defeat the Darkwyne Ogre by distracting her with a hologram of Mecha-Mole, Mecha-Mole and dumping garlic into her witch's brew, and they stop Kitora's rampage by haphazardly figuring out their new gadgets on the fly and distracting him with Adam's Walkman.
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* TheGhost: The entire rest of the SWSC, which is particularly egregious because they're supposed to be this huge international organization. The only members we meet (besides Denise and Adam) are Tim, Maria, Mecha-Mole, and Mecha-Moth.
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* SuperDeformed: Almost parodied; the SWSC branch in Tokyo sends Captain Tim a chibi artistic rendering of Kitora. Tim doesn't see it as a threat, and Commander Maria suggests it'd be a good training opportunity for D & A. Except when they get to Tokyo, they find out that Kitora is a full {{Kaiju}} and looks ''nothing'' like his illustration.
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* SuperDeformed: Almost parodied; the SWSC branch in Tokyo sends Captain Tim a chibi artistic rendering of Kitora. Tim doesn't see it as a threat, and Commander Maria suggests it'd be a good training opportunity for D & A. Except when they get to Tokyo, they find out that Kitora is a full {{Kaiju}} and looks ''nothing'' like his illustration.the artistic rendering that Mecha-Moth sent.
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The comic follows tweens Denise Dawson and Adam Anderson as they stumble into the operations of the Secret World Saving Club or SWSC, an AncientOrderOfProtectors dedicated to protecting the world against alien and supernatural threats, and become members themselves.
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The comic follows tweens Denise Dawson and Adam Anderson as they stumble into the operations of the Secret World Saving Club or SWSC, (SWSC), an AncientOrderOfProtectors dedicated to protecting the world against alien and supernatural threats, and become members themselves.
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* SpiritualSuccessor: ''Disney Adventures'' would later try the "secret organization fighting aliens and monsters" thing again in 1999 with the ''Super Music Action Ready Team'' comics.
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* RedOniBlueOni: Adam is red and Denise is blue.
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* FailedASpotCheck: Denise and Adam are distracted by their new SWSC holographic wrist communicators that they fail to notice the Irving kids being kidnapped by the Darkwyne Ogre.
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* FailedASpotCheck: Denise and Adam are so distracted by their new SWSC holographic wrist communicators that they fail to notice the Irving kids being kidnapped by the Darkwyne Ogre.
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* FireForgedFriends: Denise and Adam meet in the first story, and shortly after get caught up in the plot with the Malig-Nots and Prince Malevolon. By the second story they seem to be best friends.
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* NotSoAboveItAll: Denise is initially put off by Adam throwing an open-faced jelly sandwich at her, but she quickly offers to help him surprise his brother.
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* NotSoAboveItAll: Denise is initially put off by Adam throwing an open-faced jelly sandwich at her, but she quickly offers to help him surprise prank his brother.
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* MagicVersusScience: {{Subverted|Trope}} when Denise faces off against the Darkwyne Ogre. When Denise says her "magic" (which turns out to be a hologram of Mecha-Mole) is more powerful than the ogre's, the ogre says, "I don't ''use'' magic. I use a complex scientific discipline which is related to the earliest alchemies of the world!"
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The comic follows tweens Denise Dawson and Adam Anderson as they stumble into the operations of the Secret World Saving Club or SWSC, an AncientOrderOfProtectors dedicated to protecting the world against alien and supernatural threats.
threats, and become members themselves.
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* ProductPlacement: The comic leans into the Creator/{{Disney}} corporate synergy in the second story, by having Denise dressed as WesternAnimation/{{Pocahontas}} for Halloween, and two of the Irving kids as WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse and WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}.
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* KirbyDots: Seen floating around the electro-wrench when Captain Tim hands it to Adam.
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* HowDoIShotWeb: A recurring theme is how Denise and Adam are unable to figure out the SWSC gadgets, although they figure it out on the fly.
-->'''Mecha-Moth:''' I don't think that smacking it on a rock is the official SWSC method...
-->'''Mecha-Moth:''' I don't think that smacking it on a rock is the official SWSC method...
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* HowDoIShotWeb: A recurring theme is how Denise and Adam are unable to figure out the SWSC gadgets, gadgets at first, although they quickly figure it them out on the fly.
-->'''Mecha-Moth:''' -->'''Denise:''' Adam! Wait! You know how to use your jet boots! But I haven't figured out -- blasted stupid umbrella!\\
'''Mecha-Moth:''' I don't think that smacking it on a rock is the official SWSC method...
'''Mecha-Moth:''' I don't think that smacking it on a rock is the official SWSC method...
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-->'''Mecha-Moth:''' I don't think that smacking it on a rock is the official SWSC method...
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''The Adventures of D & A'' is a comic written and illustrated by Mike Duggan that ran in ''Magazine/DisneyAdventures'' from 1997 to 1998.
The comic follows tweens Denise Dawson and Adam Anderson as they stumble into the operations of the Secret World Saving Club or SWSC, an AncientOrderOfProtectors dedicated to protecting the world against alien and supernatural threats.
There were three stories total:
* '''"Plan 10 from Outer Space"''' (August 30, 1997): The OriginStory; Denise and Adam meet for the first time, run from some Malig-Not aliens, stumble upon the SWSC, and stop a secret invasion.
* '''"Halloweenie Roast"''' (November 1997): While babysitting some kids on Halloween, Denise and Adam run afoul of the Darkwyne Ogre, a longtime target of the SWSC.
* '''"The Really Really Cute Little Monster that Ate Tokyo!"''' (January 1998): In their first outing as SWSC Agents of Altruism -- and [[CutShort last outing in the magazine]] -- D & A are assigned the task of transporting to Japan to stop a cutesy lizard monster called Kitora that turns out to be a bigger of a problem than they originally thought.
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!! ''The Adventures of D & A'' contains examples of the following tropes:
* AIIsACrapshoot: One of the SWSC's RoguesGallery is called the Ultimate Machine, a robot who believes that Earth should belong to machines.
* AlliterativeName: A twofer: the eponymous pair are named Denise Dawson and Adam Anderson.
* AllThereInTheManual: In Heidi [=MacDonald=]'s column introducing the comic, she mentions that Adam is a fan of the Boston Red Sox, and Denise likes listening to Music/NoDoubt. This never once came up in any of the comics.
* AncientOrderOfProtectors: Captain Tim says in the third story that the SWSC has been around for centuries.
* AwesomeButImpractical: The electro-wrench. It's meant to repair electronic devices, but it's [[ArtisticLicenseEngineering impractical as a tool]] -- Captain Tim even tells Adam that its static electricity might short out his Walkman -- and almost useless as a weapon.
* ChildProdigy: Denise is the problem-solver of the duo. She lampshades it by calling herself "your average 12-year-old genius."
* CompellingVoice: One of the SWSC's RoguesGallery is called the Prattler, who can control people's minds with his voice.
* CutShort: The first story featuring the pair as full agents was also their last.
* DramaQueen: Commander Maria in the first story, as she tells Captain Tim that the SWSC repelling the invading Malig-Not fleet is going to mean certain death. Tim explains to Denise and Adam that she tends to be dramatic, but he still looks incredibly shaken.
* ExpositionDump: The third story included Captain Tim and Commander Maria going over the SWSC's RoguesGallery in detail, before being sidetracked by the Kitora situation.
* FantasticRankSystem: The SWSC. Denise and Adam start off as provisional members before becoming Agents of Altruism, Tim and Mecha-Mole are Captains of Decency, and Maria is a Commander of Charisma.
* FailedASpotCheck: Denise and Adam are distracted by their new SWSC holographic wrist communicators that they fail to notice the Irving kids being kidnapped by the Darkwyne Ogre.
* HalfHumanHybrid: As explained in the ExpositionDump, Doctor Feral was transformed into a "hideous man-beast" that appears to be a rat-human hybrid.
* IndyPloy: Basically how D & A solve anything. They defeat the Malig-Nots by haphazardly transporting themselves into the Malig-Not hideout and smashing their transporter, they defeat the Darkwyne Ogre by distracting her with a hologram of Mecha-Mole, and they stop Kitora's rampage by haphazardly figuring out their new gadgets on the fly and distracting him with Adam's Walkman.
* LeeroyJenkins: Adam's preferred method of attack in each story:
** Adam distracts Prince Malevolon and the Malig-Nots by activating some SWSC rocket boots and blasting straight into their hideout.
** When he sees the Darkwyne Ogre kidnapping the Irving kids, he charges at her -- only to get caught himself.
** When they stumble upon Kitora attacking Tokyo, Adam's first impulse is to activate the rocket boots and attack Kitora with the electro-wrench.
* NotSoAboveItAll: Denise is initially put off by Adam throwing an open-faced jelly sandwich at her, but she quickly offers to help him surprise his brother.
* ParasolParachute: {{Inverted|Trope}}. Captain Tim gives Denise a "transgravitational umbrella" that allows her to fly a la ComicBook/{{Stargirl}}.
* PercussiveShutdown: Denise can't read the Malig-Not transporter, so she forcefully shuts it down with a nearby rock.
* RobotBuddy: Mecha-Mole helps Denise and Adam in their first two adventures. The third story introduces Mecha-Moth, the assistant at the Tokyo SWSC base.
* RobotMaster: One of the SWSC's RoguesGallery is the Dollmaker, an evil inventor "who hopes to usurp goodness with an army of androids."
* RoguesGallery: As presented in the third story, the SWSC's villains include Prince Malevolon, the Darkwyne Ogre, Doctor Feral, the Ultimate Machine, the Dollmaker, and the Prattler.
* SecretHandshake: Each SWSC rank has its own. For Agents of Altruism, you bring your hands around so they clap one another, do a gentle fist bump, shake hands, smile, and say, "Greetings and salutations, fellow agent!" Adam quickly points out how ridiculous this is, but Captain Tim insists it's for security reasons.
* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: Denise. Adam quickly picks up on this when they first meet, and calls her "Scientist Girl."
* SlasherSmile: The elderly woman with the ionic blaster at the end of the first story.
* SuperDeformed: Almost parodied; the SWSC branch in Tokyo sends Captain Tim a chibi artistic rendering of Kitora. Tim doesn't see it as a threat, and Commander Maria suggests it'd be a good training opportunity for D & A. Except when they get to Tokyo, they find out that Kitora is a full {{Kaiju}} and looks ''nothing'' like his illustration.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The comic never resolves the conflict that Adam had with his brother at the start of the first story.
The comic follows tweens Denise Dawson and Adam Anderson as they stumble into the operations of the Secret World Saving Club or SWSC, an AncientOrderOfProtectors dedicated to protecting the world against alien and supernatural threats.
There were three stories total:
* '''"Plan 10 from Outer Space"''' (August 30, 1997): The OriginStory; Denise and Adam meet for the first time, run from some Malig-Not aliens, stumble upon the SWSC, and stop a secret invasion.
* '''"Halloweenie Roast"''' (November 1997): While babysitting some kids on Halloween, Denise and Adam run afoul of the Darkwyne Ogre, a longtime target of the SWSC.
* '''"The Really Really Cute Little Monster that Ate Tokyo!"''' (January 1998): In their first outing as SWSC Agents of Altruism -- and [[CutShort last outing in the magazine]] -- D & A are assigned the task of transporting to Japan to stop a cutesy lizard monster called Kitora that turns out to be a bigger of a problem than they originally thought.
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!! ''The Adventures of D & A'' contains examples of the following tropes:
* AIIsACrapshoot: One of the SWSC's RoguesGallery is called the Ultimate Machine, a robot who believes that Earth should belong to machines.
* AlliterativeName: A twofer: the eponymous pair are named Denise Dawson and Adam Anderson.
* AllThereInTheManual: In Heidi [=MacDonald=]'s column introducing the comic, she mentions that Adam is a fan of the Boston Red Sox, and Denise likes listening to Music/NoDoubt. This never once came up in any of the comics.
* AncientOrderOfProtectors: Captain Tim says in the third story that the SWSC has been around for centuries.
* AwesomeButImpractical: The electro-wrench. It's meant to repair electronic devices, but it's [[ArtisticLicenseEngineering impractical as a tool]] -- Captain Tim even tells Adam that its static electricity might short out his Walkman -- and almost useless as a weapon.
* ChildProdigy: Denise is the problem-solver of the duo. She lampshades it by calling herself "your average 12-year-old genius."
* CompellingVoice: One of the SWSC's RoguesGallery is called the Prattler, who can control people's minds with his voice.
* CutShort: The first story featuring the pair as full agents was also their last.
* DramaQueen: Commander Maria in the first story, as she tells Captain Tim that the SWSC repelling the invading Malig-Not fleet is going to mean certain death. Tim explains to Denise and Adam that she tends to be dramatic, but he still looks incredibly shaken.
* ExpositionDump: The third story included Captain Tim and Commander Maria going over the SWSC's RoguesGallery in detail, before being sidetracked by the Kitora situation.
* FantasticRankSystem: The SWSC. Denise and Adam start off as provisional members before becoming Agents of Altruism, Tim and Mecha-Mole are Captains of Decency, and Maria is a Commander of Charisma.
* FailedASpotCheck: Denise and Adam are distracted by their new SWSC holographic wrist communicators that they fail to notice the Irving kids being kidnapped by the Darkwyne Ogre.
* HalfHumanHybrid: As explained in the ExpositionDump, Doctor Feral was transformed into a "hideous man-beast" that appears to be a rat-human hybrid.
* IndyPloy: Basically how D & A solve anything. They defeat the Malig-Nots by haphazardly transporting themselves into the Malig-Not hideout and smashing their transporter, they defeat the Darkwyne Ogre by distracting her with a hologram of Mecha-Mole, and they stop Kitora's rampage by haphazardly figuring out their new gadgets on the fly and distracting him with Adam's Walkman.
* LeeroyJenkins: Adam's preferred method of attack in each story:
** Adam distracts Prince Malevolon and the Malig-Nots by activating some SWSC rocket boots and blasting straight into their hideout.
** When he sees the Darkwyne Ogre kidnapping the Irving kids, he charges at her -- only to get caught himself.
** When they stumble upon Kitora attacking Tokyo, Adam's first impulse is to activate the rocket boots and attack Kitora with the electro-wrench.
* NotSoAboveItAll: Denise is initially put off by Adam throwing an open-faced jelly sandwich at her, but she quickly offers to help him surprise his brother.
* ParasolParachute: {{Inverted|Trope}}. Captain Tim gives Denise a "transgravitational umbrella" that allows her to fly a la ComicBook/{{Stargirl}}.
* PercussiveShutdown: Denise can't read the Malig-Not transporter, so she forcefully shuts it down with a nearby rock.
* RobotBuddy: Mecha-Mole helps Denise and Adam in their first two adventures. The third story introduces Mecha-Moth, the assistant at the Tokyo SWSC base.
* RobotMaster: One of the SWSC's RoguesGallery is the Dollmaker, an evil inventor "who hopes to usurp goodness with an army of androids."
* RoguesGallery: As presented in the third story, the SWSC's villains include Prince Malevolon, the Darkwyne Ogre, Doctor Feral, the Ultimate Machine, the Dollmaker, and the Prattler.
* SecretHandshake: Each SWSC rank has its own. For Agents of Altruism, you bring your hands around so they clap one another, do a gentle fist bump, shake hands, smile, and say, "Greetings and salutations, fellow agent!" Adam quickly points out how ridiculous this is, but Captain Tim insists it's for security reasons.
* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: Denise. Adam quickly picks up on this when they first meet, and calls her "Scientist Girl."
* SlasherSmile: The elderly woman with the ionic blaster at the end of the first story.
* SuperDeformed: Almost parodied; the SWSC branch in Tokyo sends Captain Tim a chibi artistic rendering of Kitora. Tim doesn't see it as a threat, and Commander Maria suggests it'd be a good training opportunity for D & A. Except when they get to Tokyo, they find out that Kitora is a full {{Kaiju}} and looks ''nothing'' like his illustration.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The comic never resolves the conflict that Adam had with his brother at the start of the first story.
