From the first Rudolph tale...
...we come to the last one, which almost didn't get published!
Scheduled for DC's 1978 Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer tabloid, this Sheldon Mayer scripted/penciled & Tenny Henson-inked story seemed doomed to never see print due to the DC Implosion of 1978!
(In fact, the Rudolph stories weren't considered important enough to warrant inclusion in the HTF Cancelled Comics Cavalcade, created to establish copyright for the various cancelled books' material!)
As DC slowly recovered from the disaster, they instituted a revival of their digest-sized comics line, including a new book, The Best of DC, which was primarily reprint material.
But when a Rudolph-oriented issue, #4 (1980), was scheduled for Christmastime release, it was decided to include the unpublished stories to fill out the page-count!
Interestingly, the cover didn't promote the fact that new material was included in the previously-all-reprint title!
And, though the story was created for an oversized tabloid (10"x13.5"), it actually works in the tiny digest-sized (5"x6.75") format!
Support Atomic Kommie Comics this Christmas!
(a replica of the original 1939 book we re-presented on this blog!)
