Christmas Comics on RetroBlogs!

Over the past week, the RetroBlogs™ have presented a slew of classic Yuletide-themed tales...

Western Comics Adventures™

Crime & Punishment™

True Love Comics Tales™

War: Past, Present and Future™

Hero & Heroine Histories™

To wind-up the series, on Christmas Day, Secret Sanctum of Captain Video™ will present a long-unseen, never-reprinted, Xmas story from the first comic book based on a TV series based on a line of toys!

Which one?

You'll have to visit it on Christmas Day to find out!

Sometimes Truth, Justice, and The American Way DO Triumph!

Now THIS is the guy we elected...

...faster than a filibuster, more powerful than the Speaker of the House, able to leap tall Tea Partyers at a single bound...

Holiday Reading Room: ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND "Man Who Didn't Believe in Christmas"

I'm not sure what to make of this story.

It's "A Christmas Carol", yet it's not!

Weird, eh?

This story appeared in Adventures in Wonderland #5 (1956), the Christmas issue, and both writer and artist are unknown.

The editor/publisher was Lev Gleason, who had also published a number of classic comic series including Crime Does Not Pay, DareDevil Comics, and Silver Streak Comics.

However, this was at the tail end of his career, and being constrained by the newly-implemented Comics Code Authority apparently didn't sit well with him.

Perhaps this tale was his commentary on the sort of material the Code was limiting him to?

Holiday Reading Room: ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND "Man Who Didn't Believe in Christmas"

I'm not sure what to make of this story.

It's "A Christmas Carol", yet it's not!

Weird, eh?

This story appeared in Adventures in Wonderland #5 (1956), the Christmas issue, and both writer and artist are unknown.

The editor/publisher was Lev Gleason, who had also published a number of classic comic series including Crime Does Not Pay, DareDevil Comics, and Silver Streak Comics.

However, this was at the tail end of his career, and being constrained by the newly-implemented Comics Code Authority apparently didn't sit well with him.

Perhaps this tale was his commentary on the sort of material the Code was limiting him to?

Holiday Reading Room: SANTA CLAUS FUNNIES "Santa in Wonderland" Conclusion

When Last We Left Santa and Alice...

The night before Christmas Eve, Santa was disturbed when a little girl named Alice appeared at his door and pleaded for him to "bring Christmas to Wonderland".

The blonde girl lead Santa to the rabbit hole/entrance and showed him mushrooms that reduced both of them in size.

Once in Wonderland, Santa encountered inhabitants including the Mock Turtle and the White Rabbit, who shrank while using a white fan which Claus inadvertently also uses...

This story originally appeared in Santa Claus Funnies #2 (1943)

It was reprinted in a stand-alone giveaway comic in 1951 to capitalize on the release of the Disney animated film based on the Lewis Carroll story!

Oddly enough, the reprint's new cover art shows Alice rendered with the same hairstyle and blue dress as the movie version, rather than the hairstyle and violet dress shown in the comic story.

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