Friday Holiday Fun CHRISTMAS CARNIVAL "Saint George and the Dragons"

You Likely Read the Title and Wondered...

...what do dragons have to do with Christmas???
Don't worry, it'll all make sense by the end...

Illustrated by an anonymous artist who signed himself/herself as "Flip", this tale from  Ziff-Davis' Christmas Carnival (1952) hasn't been seen since its' only reprinting in 1955 when St John Publishing, who bought all of the assets of Ziff-Davis Comics when the comic division folded, reprinted the entire 100-page issue!
"Flip" worked in comics, doing funny animal and humor stories for Ziff-Davis and Toby, over a two year period before leaving the industry.
Where (s)he was before comics and where (s)he went after comics is a mystery we'll likely never solve...

Merry Christmas

Santa Claus' World War II-era attempt at updating his transportation...

...doesn't quite go as planned in this wraparound cover from Dell's Santa Claus Funnies #1 (1942).

Unfortunately, the artist didn't sign it, and the experts at various comic indexing sites have been unable to offer possible illustrators.

Personally, I'm thinking Walt Kelly.

(The snarky reindeer are an obvious giveaway)

Any suggestions?

Merry Christmas to All!

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder SUPER-STAR HOLIDAY SPECIAL "House of Mystery"

It's Christmas Eve...

...so let's join the hosts and hostesses of DC's various late, lamented, sci-fi/mystery anthologies as they attempt to top each other with Yuletide tales in this almost half-century old, never-reprinted story...

Written by Bob Rozakis, penciled by Romeo Tanghal, and inked by Dan Adkins, this one-time get-together of hosts plus the The Phantom Stranger and Madame Xanadu (who had their own books) occured in DC Special Series #21: Super-Star Holiday Special (1980)!

A fitting World of Wonder  for Christmas Eve, eh?

Holiday Reading Roon 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!

Monday Mecha Madness ASTRO BOY Manga "Gademu" Conclusion

We Have Already Seen...

...Astro Boy, returning to Japan from India on board a state-of-the-art ocean liner is drawn into a mystery involving a giant centipede-like robot which attacks people and swallows money, jewels and valuables, then disappears!

How can a giant robot just vanish aboard a ship in mid-ocean?

The secret of the cybernetic criminal is about to be revealed to a host of prospective unscrupulous buyers who want it for their own nefarious purposes...

Written & illustrated by Osamu Tezuka, and serialized in Kobunsha's Shonen Boy #8 & 9 (1959), this story was adapted into the first season of the 1960s Astro Boy anime series that was dubbed and presented on American TV during the first wave of Japanese cartoons including Speed Racer, Kimba the White Lion, and Gigantor to appear in daily (Monday thru Friday) syndication, captivating kids in the US during the mid-1960s!

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