...so here's a feature from Dell's Four Color Comics #867 (1942)...
...which was part of the Santa Claus Funnies series that ran every year for over a decade!
Saturday, December 7, 2019
Friday, December 6, 2019
Friday Fun SANTA CLAUS FUNNIES "Recitation"
Could anyone do these gentle one-pagers better than Walt (Pogo) Kelly?
Nope, as this never-reprinted piece from Dell's Four Color Comics #91 aka Santa Claus Funnies (1945) proves!
Thursday, December 5, 2019
Holiday Reading Room PICTURE STORIES FROM THE BIBLE: NEW TESTAMENT "Story of Jesus: Part One"
The origin tale of Jesus Christ has, usually, been presented tastefully, even reverently!
...and we'll be re-presenting some of them (including never-reprinted material) on Thursdays for the next few weeks!
Let's start with the most-reprinted one of all...
The story continues with a caption mentioning that Mary and Joseph escaped and then takes up with Jesus as a 'tween.
Originally published by All-American Comics under the DC Comics logo in 1942, later editions were done by EC Comics after publisher MC Gaines sold his rights to most of the All-American line to National Allied Publications who combined the two groups into National Periodical Publications.
(National Allied and All-American had been marketing and distributing their books together, usually using the DC Comics logo, which was the result of an earlier buyout of Detective Comics Inc by National!)
Retaining the rights to the Picture Stories series, Gaines used it as the cornerstone of his new EC Comics imprint.
Note: EC Comics, now famous (or infamous) for its horror/sci-fi titles and MAD was originally conceived as Educational Comics with lots of wholesome, young-kid oriented material like Tiny Tots Comics and Land of the Lost!
Don't remember them?
Their sales (except for the Picture Stories of the Bible) were pitiful.
Their sales (except for the Picture Stories of the Bible) were pitiful.
That's why "Educational" Comics became "Entertaining" Comics, though they continued reprinting Picture Stories (but without the EC logo on the front after the whole "Seduction of the Innocent" scare...)
Note: the entire Picture Stories series (including this tale) was written by Montgomery Mulford & Edward Wertheim and illustrated by Don Cameron!
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Wednesday, December 4, 2019
Wednesday Worlds of Wonder SANTA CLAUS FUNNIES "Santa in Wonderland" Part 1
Now HERE'S a crossover team-up you never thought you'd see...
...as Santa Claus meets Lewis Carroll's Alice and travels to Wonderland!
What does Santa find?
Though the scripter is unknown, the art for this never-reprinted tale from Dell's Santa Claus Funnies #2 (1943) was by George Kerr, who was the primary artist for the comic book tales of Raggedy Ann and Andy and Andy Panda!
Tuesday, December 3, 2019
Holiday Reading Room RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER "The Plot (and the Fog) Thickens!"
...Rudolph lived a sad existence, shunned by his peers because he was "different".
But, on Christmas Eve, when Santa Claus, hindered by severe fog, making him hours behind schedule, delivers gifts to Rudolph's home, he literally sees the solution to his problem...
Next Tuesday:
Written by Robert L May and illustrated by Denver Gillen, this beloved tale was actually an advertising promotion designed to lure customers into doing Christmas shopping!
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(a replica of the original 1939 book we're re-presenting on this blog!)
Monday, December 2, 2019
Monday Madness WIZARD OF OZ Conclusion
...oops, they only said (and sang) that in the Judy Garland movie!
And this definitely ain't the 1939 flick!
However, the Wicked Witch of the West is, in fact, dead!
Using the witch's magic hat, Dorothy commands the flying monkeys to carry herself and her friends back to the Wizard's Palace in the Emerald City...
This never-reprinted book adaptation from Dell Junior Treasury #5 (1956) was scripted by Gaylord DuBois and illustrated by Mel Crawford.
Oddly, it's not listed in the Wikipedia article about various adaptations of the novel!
The Classics Illustrated Junior version (which is totally-different) is listed!
Oddly, it's not listed in the Wikipedia article about various adaptations of the novel!
The Classics Illustrated Junior version (which is totally-different) is listed!
Heck, there have even been several anime versions...
Wow!
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Sunday, December 1, 2019
Give Your Loved One a Batman Christmas!
Want to give your Batman-obsessed loved one (and we all have at least one) a "Batty" Christmas?
Combine the blu ray (or dvd) set ...
...with a not-available-in-stores digitally-restored reproduction of a 1966 Carmine Infantino/Murphy Anderson promo piece...
...created in 1966 to hype the then-new tv show!
Ironically, the visual looks more like a huge flat-screen tv than the small cathode-ray tv tubes of the 1960s!
Available in a variety of formats to fit both decor and budget!