Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass gave us a precocious young adventurer and a fairy tale world populated by anthropomorphic animals and other charmingly nonsensical creatures. The books inspired one of Disney’s earliest full-length animated films, Alice in Wonderland, which is turning 75.

Alice in Wonderland was first released in London on July 26, 1951, and arrived in US theaters on September 14. In the movie, the curious Alice follows a White Rabbit from a park in Oxford, England, down a deep hole and through a series of tasks before she arrives in Wonderland. Alice interacts with a cast of oddities like the hot tempered Caterpillar, the easily distracted Mad Hatter, the mischievous Cheshire Cat, and the unhinged Queen of Hearts. She shrinks and grow, attends the strangest tea party, plays croquet using a live flamingo as a mallet, and narrowly escape’s the angry queen before waking up where she started.

For over 150 years, Carroll’s story of whimsy has tickled the imaginations of other creative people, and Alice has had many adventures in Wonderland across movies, books, video games, and comics. Her first foray into comics was in United Features’ Single Series #24 (January 1940) with an adaptation of Carroll’s books. Gilberton Publications also adapted her story in Classics Illustrated #49 (July 1948) and she appeared in a few issues of Dell’s Disney title, Four Color. She was in two issues of Alice (June, September 1951) from Ziff-Davis, and joined other Disney characters in Walt Disney Comics Digest.

Alice starred in an issue of Marvel Classics Comics Series Featuring… (January 1978), was in DC’s Oz-Wonderland War (1986), and even popped up in Hellblazer #23 (October 1989). She joined other fantasy and fairy tale characters in Promethea #9 (September 2000) from America’s Best Comics and she was a recurring character in Vertigo’s Jack of Fables (2006-2009).

Zenescope started publishing their more mature version of Alice stories in Grimm Fairy Tales presents Alice in Wonderland (2012), followed by the Grimm Fairy Tales Steampunk Alice in Wonderland one-shot (February 2017), and the Grimm Fairy Tales: Alice in Zombieland one-shot (April 2025). Alice was part of BOOM! Studios’ Fiction Squad (2014), she did a guest spot in I Hate Fairyland #20 (February 2025) from Image, and recently starred in Alice Forever After (2026) from BOOM! Studios.