Space Celebration Saturday COMICO CHRISTMAS SPECIAL "Traditions Everlasting"

Beneath this never-reprinted Dave Stevens cover...

...lies the polar opposite of the cynical Christmas tale we told yesterday!

See?

There is hope for Christmas (if not humanity) after all!

Written by Doug Wheeler, illustrated by Steve Rude and Bret Blevins, this cover-featured tale from Comico Christmas Special #1 (1988) is this perfect closer to our little blogathon of Christmas-themed stories!
Now get out there, finish your last-minute shopping, and spend the evening with the family!

Space Hero/Heroine Saturdays will return after the New Year!

Friday Holiday...FUN? "Twas the Night Before Christmas"

Long before he was famous...

...a certain now-legendary writer-artist was just another aspiring young comics creator presenting work in fanzines to show people what he could do!

Before The Dark Knight Returns!
Before 300!
Before Sin City!
Here's Frank Miller murdering Santa Claus!
A never-reprinted tale from the incredibly-HTF fanzine APAFive #39 (1974)!
A sign of things to come?
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Marvel Universe by Frank Miller
Omnibus

Holiday Reading Room TALES TO ASTONISH "It Walks Like a Man!"

Sometimes a child becomes too attached to a Christmas present...

...or is it vice versa...as seen in this story which has only been reprinted once since its' initial publication in Marvel's Tales to Astonish #45 (1963).

Plotted by Stan Lee, scripted by Robert Bernstein, and illustrated by Paul Reinman, this tale was one of several from Atlas/Marvel in the 1950s and 60s based on the theme of an automaton developing emotion and protecting the human object of its' affection.
You'll see two of them next week!

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Marvel Masterworks

Atlas Tales to Astonish

Volume 4
(with the only reprint of this story in almost 60 years!)

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder ATARI FORCE Part Three "Chapter Three: Star Raiders"

When Last We Left the Multiverse-Spanning Crew of Scanner One...

...after being thrown into an unknown dimension, the Atari team crash-lands on a planet with a beautiful, though long-abandoned, city!

While exploring it, the team is attacked by alien ships.

The humans' demise seems certain, until another type of ship rises from the uninhabited city and fires on the saucer-like ships...

What could be affecting the crew, increasing their aggressive tendencies?

The Action Concludes...

NEXT WEDNESDAY!

BTW, do those two types of alien ships look just a little...familiar?

Could it be...?

Be here to find out!

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Art of Atari

Holiday Reading Room JOURNEY INTO UNKNOWN WORLDS "Lady Who Believed"

If you liked this take on Kris Kringle...

....you'll enjoy this (somewhat) gentler tale of him as a Christmas crime-fighter and defender of the innocent!

This never-reprinted tale is from Atlas' Journey into Unknown Worlds #34 (1955), the first issue published under the restrictive auspices of the Comics Code Authority.

I wonder if it was originally-meant to be as gruesome as EC's legendary "...and All Through the House..."?

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Jingle Belle

The Whole Package

by Paul (Harley Quinn) Dini

and Friends

Monday Madness CHRISTMAS WITH MOTHER GOOSE "Little Boy Blue and Little Girl Green

Here's another early example of a "mash-up"...

...putting existing nursery rhyme characters into a Christmas setting to create new tales!

Written and illustrated by Walt (Pogo) Kelly, this never-reprinted tale from the final Christmas with Mother Goose anthology (Dell's Four Color #253 [1949]) adds new characters that didn't exist in the nursery rhyme.

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Great Treasury of Christmas Comic Book Stories

Holiday Reading Room TREASURE CHEST "Father Kiernan Tells About Christmas Customs in Other Lands"

Here's a rarely-seen Christmas piece...

...from the little-known (and never-reprinted) comic series Treasure Chest, only available by subscription in Catholic schools.

The Treasure Chest of Fun and Fact was a comic published bi-weekly during the school year (September thru June) and distributed to Catholic churches and schools from 1946 to 1966, featuring wholesome stories about historical, scientific, and sports subjects, adaptations of famous fictional works, and a number of original series.

Many Golden and Silver Age creators contributed work to the title including Joe Sinnott, Reed Crandall, Jim Mooney, Graham Ingels, Bernard Bailey, Bob Powell, Fran Matera, and Frank Borth.

It became a year-round bi-weekly from 1966 to 1968, then reverting to school-year-only until it's cancellation in 1972.

This particular story, written by George S Foley and illustrated by an unknown artist appeared in Vol 2 #9 (Dec. 24, 1946).