Wade Sampson grew up in the Los Angeles area and since the age of five was a frequent visitor to Disneyland. He was an original member of both the Mouse Club and the National Fantasy Fan Club. He attended all the local conventions where he had the opportunity to interview many of the people who actually worked with Walt Disney. Wade describes his house as looking like "a toy shop and a bookstore exploded and I decided to live in the remains". For over two decades, he has been a freelance writer and a teacher and for a while was a dealer in animation artwork and related resources. His columns concentrate on sharing stories of Disney history that haven't been recorded elsewhere.

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• Wade Sampson's Last Column (Korkis Korner)- September 22, 2010
• The Disneylandia Story Part Two (Korkis Korner)- September 15, 2010
• The Disneylandia Story Part One (Korkis Korner)- September 8, 2010
• Disney Legend Bob Gurr: Filling in the Gaps (Korkis Korner)- September 1, 2010
• A New Mouse Voice In Town (Korkis Korner)- August 25, 2010
• Pleasure Island Chronology (Korkis Korner)- August 18, 2010
• Who was Pleasure Island's Raoul Manzanera? (Korkis Korner)- August 11, 2010
• So Dear to My Heart: The Secrets Behind the Film (Korkis Korner)- August 4, 2010
• The Walt Disney World 30th Anniversary Trading Cards Story (Korkis Korner)- July 28, 2010
• Walt's Disneyland 1955-1966 (Korkis Korner)- July 21, 2010
• The First Disneyland Party (Korkis Korner)- July 14, 2010
• The Disneyland 1953 Sales Pitch (Korkis Korner)- July 7, 2010
• The Disney Alice in Wonderlands That Never Were (Korkis Korner)- June 30, 2010
• Confessions of a Walt Disney World Merlin (Korkis Korner)- June 23, 2010
• The Story of Disney's Toby Tyler (Korkis Korner)- June 16, 2010
• Whatever Happened to Destino? (Korkis Korner)- June 9, 2010
• The Tale of Cinderella's Golden Carrousel (Korkis Korner)- June 2, 2010
• World War II Disney (Korkis Korner)- May 26, 2010
• The Muppet*Vision 3-D Story (Korkis Korner)- May 19, 2010
• Imagineer Rock Hall Remembers (Korkis Korner)- May 12, 2010
• Jim Henson's The Little Mermaid Island (Korkis Korner)- May 5, 2010
• Disney and Macy's: A Christmas Tradition (Korkis Korner)- April 28, 2010
• CELabrating Disney Ink and Painters (Korkis Korner)- April 21, 2010
• Frank and Ollie: The Best of Friends (Korkis Korner)- April 14, 2010
• Disney Goes Commercial Part Two (Korkis Korner)- April 7, 2010
• Disney Goes Commercial Part One (Korkis Korner)- March 31, 2010
• More Forgotten Tales of Disney History (Korkis Korner)- March 24, 2010
• Jack Cutting Speaks (Korkis Korner)- March 17, 2010
• The Mickey Mouse Musician (Korkis Korner)- March 10, 2010
• The Disney Family Album Complete Story Part 2 (Korkis Korner)- March 3, 2010
• The Disney Family Album Complete Story Part 1 (Korkis Korner)- February 24, 2010
• Farewell to Toontown Fair (Korkis Korner)- February 17, 2010
• From Ukelele Ike to Jiminy Cricket: Cliff Edwards (Korkis Korner)- February 10, 2010
• Forgotten Disney Character: Scoopy Bee (Korkis Korner)- February 3, 2010
• Paul Murry: The Wayne DeWald Letter (Korkis Korner)- January 27, 2010
• More Untold Tales of Captain EO (Korkis Korner)- January 20, 2010
• Mickey Mouse Revue (Korkis Korner)- January 13, 2010
• Forgotten Disneyland Heroes (Korkis Korner)- January 12, 2010
• The Untold Story of Captain EO (Korkis Korner)- December 30, 2009
• The Secret Origin of the Aristocats (Korkis Korner)- December 23, 2009
• Remembering Roy E. Disney (Korkis Korner)- December 17, 2009
• Walt Disney: Horrible Theater (Korkis Korner)- December 16, 2009
• Zorro at Disneyland (Korkis Korner)- December 9, 2009
• As Walt Said (Korkis Korner)- December 2, 2009
• Injun Trouble: The Neverland Tribe (Korkis Korner)- November 25, 2009
• The Complete Pleasure Island Plaques (Korkis Korner)- November 18, 2009
• Walt Disney Was NOT Born in Spain (Korkis Korner)- November 11, 2009
• Letters From the Adventurers Club (Korkis Korner)- November 4, 2009
• More Secrets of the Adventurers Club (Korkis Korner)- October 28, 2009
• The Dumbo That Never Was (Korkis Korner)- October 21, 2009
• More Walt's Words (Korkis Korner)- October 14, 2009
• The Mickey Mouse Club: FBI's Most Wanted (Korkis Korner)- October 7, 2009
• Walt's Wonderful World of Awards (Korkis Korner)- September 30, 2009
• Saludos Walt (Korkis Korner)- September 23, 2009
• The Original Disney 3-D (Korkis Korner)- September 16, 2009
• Forgotten Tales of Disney History (Korkis Korner)- September 9, 2009
• Chuck Jones: Four Months At Disney (Korkis Korner)- September 2, 2009
• Fred MacMurray: The First Disney Legend (Korkis Korner)- August 26, 2009
• Frank and the Fairies (Korkis Korner)- August 19, 2009
• Card Walker Speaks (Korkis Korner)- August 12, 2009
• The Other Epcot (Korkis Korner)- August 5, 2009
• A Tour of the West: Circarama 1955 and American Motors (Korkis Korner)- July 29, 2009
• Remembering Rescue Rangers (Korkis Korner)- July 22, 2009
• The Art of the Haunted Mansion: The Book (Korkis Korner)- July 15, 2009
• Lynn Hart: Adventurers Club and Forbidden Disney Song Writer (Korkis Korner)- July 8, 2009
• Ghostly Gracey: The Merlin of WED (Korkis Korner)- July 1, 2009
• Celebrating the Classic Submarine Voyage (Korkis Korner)- June 24, 2009
• Harry Cohn, Columbia and Walt Disney (Korkis Korner)- June 17, 2009
• Disney Attacks VD: The Rest of the Story (Korkis Korner)- June 10, 2009
• The Empress Lilly Story (Korkis Korner)- June 3, 2009
• Taking Another Look at Robin Hood (Korkis Korner)- May 27, 2009
• Mickey Mouse Theater of the Air (Korkis Korner)- May 20, 2009
• The Secret Origin of the Firehouse Five Plus Two (Korkis Korner)- May 13, 2009
• Van France's Thoughts On Walt Disney World Leadership (Korkis Korner)- May 6, 2009
• Who Was Madame Zenobia? (Korkis Korner)- April 29, 2009
• Why Frank Lloyd Wright Disliked Fantasia (Korkis Korner)- April 22, 2009
• Grumpy and the Seven Snow Whites (Korkis Korner)- April 15, 2009
• Disney and McDonald's (Korkis Korner)- April 8, 2009
• In Walt's Words: Sincerely, Walt (Korkis Korner)- April 1, 2009
• Crockett Memories from Fess Parker (Korkis Korner)- March 25, 2009
• Walt's Return to Marceline 1956 (Korkis Korner)- March 18, 2009
• The Golden Oak Ranch (Korkis Korner)- March 11, 2009
• The Disney Crew: A Remembrance (Korkis Korner)- March 4, 2009
• The History of Two Disney Christmas Traditions (Korkis Korner)- February 25, 2009
• A Forgotten Walt Interview From 1933 (Korkis Korner)- February 18, 2009
• The Great Disney Puppet Mysteries: The Tale of Two Bobs (Korkis Korner)- February 11, 2009
• Walt the Bibliophile (Korkis Korner)- February 4, 2009
• Some Day My Lawsuit Will Come (Korkis Korner)- January 28, 2009
• Tom Nabbe Is Tom Sawyer (Korkis Korner)- January 21, 2009
• A Belated Christmas Gift: The Disney Newspaper Strip (Korkis Korner)- January 14, 2009
• The Pleasure Island New Year Story (Korkis Korner)- January 7, 2009
• Happy New Year, Virginia Davis (Korkis Korner)- December 31, 2008
• The First Disney Television Christmas (Korkis Korner)- December 24, 2008
• The Roger Rabbit That Never Was (Korkis Korner)- December 17, 2008
• Song of the South That Never Was (Korkis Korner)- December 10, 2008
• Lt. Robin Crusoe, U.S.N. Premieres (Korkis Korner)- December 3, 2008
• Lt. Robin Crusoe, U.S.N. Remembered (Korkis Korner)- November 26, 2008
• Tribute to Imagineer Marvin Davis (Korkis Korner)- November 19, 2008
• Adventurers Club Final Farewell: Part Two (Korkis Korner)- November 12, 2008
• The Monorail Myth: The Rest of the Story (Korkis Korner)- November 5, 2008
• Craig McNair Wilson Remembers the Adventurers Club (Korkis Korner)- October 29, 2008
• Roger Cox (1945-2007): The Forgotten Adventurer (Korkis Korner)- October 22, 2008
• The Day Walt Disney Lost His Luck (Korkis Korner)- October 15, 2008
• Special Effect Secrets of the Adventurer’s Club (Korkis Korner)- October 8, 2008
• The Secret Origin of Pleasure Island (Korkis Korner)- October 1, 2008
• Sully Sullivan Speaks (Korkis Korner)- September 24, 2008
• Linda Woolverton and Belle (Korkis Korner)- September 17, 2008
• Walt Goes Hawaiian (Korkis Korner)- September 10, 2008
• Sounds Like Walt (Korkis Korner)- September 3, 2008
• Walt Disney aka the Gray Seal (Korkis Korner)- August 27, 2008
• Tinker Bell Talks To Me (Korkis Korner)- August 20, 2008
• A Farewell to the Adventurer's Club (Korkis Korner)- August 13, 2008
• Forgotten Disney Heroines: The Disney Secretaries (Korkis Korner)- August 6, 2008
• The Mickey Mouse Weekly Story (Korkis Korner)- July 30, 2008
• A Walk Inside Sleeping Beauty Castle (Korkis Korner)- July 23, 2008
• Walt Celebrates Disneyland 1965 (Korkis Korner)- July 17, 2008
• The Whole Tooth: Disney and Dentistry (Korkis Korner)- July 16, 2008
• Farewell to Pleasure Island (Korkis Korner)- July 9, 2008
• Whatever Happened to Walt’s Robot Friend, Garco? (Korkis Korner)- July 2, 2008
• The Best Walt Disney Biographies (Korkis Korner)- June 25, 2008
• World War One Walt (Korkis Korner)- June 19, 2008
• Walt Disney Recognition Day (Korkis Korner)- June 11, 2008
• The Little Disney Garage Nobody Wanted (Korkis Korner)- June 4, 2008
• Imagineering and Tom Fitzgerald (Korkis Korner)- May 21, 2008
• What Walt Knows About Girls (Korkis Korner)- May 14, 2008
• The History of it's a small world (Korkis Korner)- May 7, 2008
• The Rest of the Story (Korkis Korner)- April 30, 2008
• The Return of the Gremlins (Korkis Korner)- April 23, 2008
• Disney Dinosaurs (Korkis Korner)- April 16, 2008
• Jack Hannah Remembers Pirate Gold (Korkis Korner)- April 9, 2008
• Modern Mechanix Reveals the Secrets of Disney (Korkis Korner)- April 2, 2008
• The Cute Walt Story That Never Was (Korkis Korner)- March 26, 2008
• In His Own Words: Walt Remembers Marceline (Korkis Korner)- March 19, 2008
• The Magic of Darby O'Gill (Korkis Korner)- March 12, 2008
• Plane Crazy About Mickey Mouse (Korkis Korner)- March 5, 2008
• Ray Bradbury Shares Walt Disney's Vision and Legacy (Korkis Korner)- February 27, 2008
• WED Exit Interviews (Korkis Korner)- February 20, 2008
• The Song of the South Premiere (Korkis Korner)- February 13, 2008
• The Biggest Disney Comic Book in the World (Korkis Korner)- February 6, 2008
• In Walt's Worlds: Natural Walt (Korkis Korner)- January 30, 2008
• Khrushchev and Disneyland (Korkis Korner)- January 23, 2008
• Disney's B'rer Rabbit Hops Into the Funny Pages (Korkis Korner)- January 17, 2008
• Walt's Canadian Connection (Korkis Korner)- January 16, 2008
• Farewell to Joyce Carlson (Korkis Korner)- January 9, 2008
• Happy New Year to Disney's Hollywood Studios (Korkis Korner)- January 3, 2008
• Santa Walt (Korkis Korner)- December 27, 2007
• A Snow White Christmas Premiere (Korkis Korner)- December 19, 2007
• Farewell to the Disney Gallery (Korkis Korner)- December 12, 2007
• Uncle Scrooge's Triple Anniversary (Korkis Korner)- December 5, 2007
• Disney Cartoons That Aren't Disney (Korkis Korner)- November 28, 2007
• Walt Disney's Last Live Action Film (Korkis Korner)- November 21, 2007
• Happy Birthday, Mickey Mouse (Korkis Korner)- November 14, 2007
• Walt Tells Why He Always Loved Trains (Korkis Korner)- November 7, 2007
• Trick or Treat With Donald Duck (Korkis Korner)- October 31, 2007
• Walt Disney and the Grand Canyon (Korkis Korner)- October 24, 2007
• More Disney Films You'll Probably Never See (Korkis Korner)- October 17, 2007
• The Three Caballeros Return (Korkis Korner)- October 10, 2007
• Happy Birthday, Epcot! (Korkis Korner)- October 3, 2007
• Donald Duck Finds Pirate Gold (Korkis Korner)- September 26, 2007
• Runaway Brain (Korkis Korner)- September 19, 2007
• The Greatest Disney Documentary You May Never See (Korkis Korner)- September 12, 2007
• Robert Jaffray Did Not Create Epcot (Korkis Korner)- September 6, 2007
• Walt's Favorite Teacher: Daisy Beck (Korkis Korner)- August 29, 2007
• Another Word From Walt (Korkis Korner)- August 22, 2007
• Walt Disney's Stamp of Approval (Korkis Korner)- August 15, 2007
• The Secret Origin of Space Mountain (Korkis Korner)- August 8, 2007
• Jack Valenti Celebrates Disneyland's Birthday (Korkis Korner)- August 1, 2007
• Orange Thoughts of an Orange Bird (Korkis Korner)- July 25, 2007
• A Salute to Club 55 (Korkis Korner)- July 17, 2007
• Horsing Around With Walt and Polo (Korkis Korner)- July 11, 2007
• The Story of the Red Wagon Inn (Korkis Korner)- July 4, 2007
• Walt's School Daze (Korkis Korner)- June 27, 2007
• Disneyland Bacon Bits (Korkis Korner)- June 20, 2007
• Up, Up and Away with Walt Disney (Korkis Korner)- June 13, 2007
• Disney's Ham Actors: The Three Little Pigs (Korkis Korner)- June 6, 2007
• The Story of Storybook Land (Korkis Korner)- May 30, 2007
• Farewell to Tom Sawyer's Island (Korkis Korner)- May 23, 2007
• Just Ducky: Al Taliaferro and Donald Duck (Korkis Korner)- May 16, 2007
• The Studio that Walt Built (Korkis Korner)- May 9, 2007
• Walt's Women: Two Forgotten Influences (Korkis Korner)- May 2, 2007
• A Word from Walt (Korkis Korner)- April 25, 2007
• Are You Too Old for Disneyland? (Korkis Korner)- April 18, 2007
• Farewell Carol Svendsen (Korkis Korner)- April 12, 2007
• Tinker Bell Tales (Korkis Korner)- April 11, 2007
• Easter at the White House (Korkis Korner)- April 4, 2007
• Extra! Extra! Read All About It (Korkis Korner)- March 28, 2007
• Walt's Last Gift to Our Children (Korkis Korner)- March 21, 2007
• Just the Disney Facts, Ma'am (Korkis Korner)- March 14, 2007
• Walt and DeMolay (Korkis Korner)- March 7, 2007
• Flying to Neverland with Walt (Korkis Korner)- February 28, 2007
• Remembering Peter Ellenshaw (Korkis Korner)- February 21, 2007
• The Gospel According to Walt (Korkis Korner)- February 14, 2007
• Horticultural Heritage (Korkis Korner)- February 7, 2007
• What's for Breakfast? (Korkis Korner)- January 31, 2007
• Goodbye Disney Wave (Korkis Korner)- January 24, 2007
• Adrienne Tytla (Korkis Korner)- January 17, 2007
• The Kodak Konnection (Korkis Korner)- January 10, 2007
• The Man Who Was Walt (Korkis Korner)- January 3, 2007
• Ruth Patricia Shellhorn (Korkis Korner)- December 27, 2006
• A Disney Family Christmas (Korkis Korner)- December 20, 2006
• Book 'Em Wade (Korkis Korner)- December 13, 2006
• The True Story of True Life Adventures (Korkis Korner)- December 6, 2006
• Ron Miller and Touchstone (Korkis Korner)- November 29, 2006
• Walt's So Funny (Korkis Korner)- November 22, 2006
• Walt Disney Celebrates Mickey's Birthday (Korkis Korner)- November 15, 2006
• The Liberty Street Story 1959 (Korkis Korner)- November 8, 2006
• The Mystery of the Female Disney Animator (Korkis Korner)- November 1, 2006
• Walt Disney World's First Press Event, 1969 (Korkis Korner)- October 25, 2006
• Ridgway on MK Opening Day (Korkis Korner)- October 18, 2006
• The Art of Disney (Korkis Korner)- October 11, 2006
• Emily Bavar Spills the Beans (Korkis Korner)- October 4, 2006
• In Walt's Words (Korkis Korner)- September 27, 2006
• Bob Gurr Remembers Autopia (Korkis Korner)- September 20, 2006
• The Story Behind the Walt Disney World Casting Center (Korkis Korner)- September 13, 2006
• Mickey Tries to Commit Suicide (Korkis Korner)- September 6, 2006
• Bright as a Disney Penny (Korkis Korner)- August 30, 2006
• The Problem with Pooh (Korkis Korner)- August 23, 2006
• The Friz and the Diz (Korkis Korner)- August 16, 2006
• The Lost Caballero (Korkis Korner)- August 9, 2006
• 'The Gremlins' is coming! (Korkis Korner)- August 2, 2006
• Understanding the Swan and Dolphin (Korkis Korner)- July 26, 2006
• The Wisdom of John Hench (Korkis Korner)- July 12, 2006
• In Memory of the Original Pleasure Island Story (Korkis Korner)- June 28, 2006
• What Got Into Walt's Matterhorn? (Korkis Korner)- June 14, 2006
• Charles Ridgway (Korkis Korner)- May 31, 2006