The Adventures of Peter Wheat is the title and central character of an American comic book series, created by cartoonist Walt Kelly (1913–1973) and distributed by the Dell Publishing as part of a marketing campaign. It was created for the Peter Wheat Bread and Bakers Associates, and it was published between 1948 and 1956. All of 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 and his animal friends go on adventures and try to save the wheat field from Dragonel and Hornet Knights.