Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Holiday Reading Room: A CHRISTMAS CAROL "Stave Two"

Christmas Eve.
Ebenezer Scrooge, disgusted at the irresponsible attitiudes of the celebrating throngs of Yuletide partiers, closes up shop and goes home...where he is confronted by the ghost of his deceased business partner, Jacob Marley.
The spirit warns Scrooge that three other specters will visit him over the next few hours...
Tomorrow:
(C'mon, it's a Marvel book!)
Adapted by Doug Moench, based on the novella by Charles Dickens.
Credited to "Diverse Hands", the art styles I recognize include Bob Hall, Frank Giacoia, Frank Springer, Dave Cockrum, Marie Severin, Carmine Infantino, Steve Leialoha, John Romita Sr, Al Milgrom, Mike Esposito, Tom Palmer, Ron Wilson, and probably anybody who wandered into the Bullpen while this book was in production!
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Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Holiday Reading Room: A CHRISTMAS CAROL "Stave One"

It's the single most famous Christmas story (besides the Nativity itself)...
...told in the Mighty Marvel Manner in this never-reprinted tale!
Tomorrow:
(C'mon, it's a Marvel book!)
Adapted by Doug Moench, based on the novella by Charles Dickens.
Credited to "Diverse Hands", the art styles I recognize include Bob Hall, Frank Giacoia, Frank Springer, Dave Cockrum, Marie Severin, Carmine Infantino, Steve Leialoha, John Romita Sr, Al Milgrom, Mike Esposito, Tom Palmer, and probably anybody who wandered into the Bullpen while this book was in production!
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Monday, December 17, 2012

A Christmas Carol Comic Classic is Coming!

There have been numerous comic adaptations of Charles Dickens' Christmas ghost story...
...but this never-reprinted one from (believe it or not) Marvel Comics, has the distinction of being illustrated by more artists than any other version!
Credited to "Diverse Hands", the art styles I recognize include Bob Hall, Frank Giacoia, Frank Springer, Dave Cockrum, Marie Severin, Carmine Infantino, Steve Leialoha, John Romita Sr, Al Milgrom, Mike Esposito, and probably anybody who wandered into the Bullpen while this book was in production!
Trivia: 
This was the final title in the Marvel Classics Comics line which had started out as color reprints of the early '70s b/w Pendulum Press "comic adaptations of classic stories" series. After a dozen issues, Marvel began doing their own adaptations, continuing for another two dozen issues.
Scripter Doug Moench was no newcomer to adapting prose to comics having worked on comics versions of literary properties including Doc Savage, The Shadow, James Bond, and Fu Manchu!
Colorist Francoise Mouly later became the art editor of The New Yorker, co-creator of the legendary comic anthology Raw, and is currently the publisher/editorial director of Toon Books, an imprint of Candlewick Press. She is the creative partner (and spouse) of Art Spiegelman.
We'll be running this HTF story for the rest of the week, so be here tomorrow for Stave One!
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Sunday, December 16, 2012

Holiday Reading Room: "Santa's Red, Red Nose"

What happens if Kris Kringle gets sick on Christmas Eve?
This tale from St John's Chistmas Carnival (1952) 100-page one-shot gives you the answer!
It was all a dream!
Thank Heavens!
The thought of a Christmas without Santa is just too much to bear! ;-)

Saturday, December 15, 2012

Out doing Christmas Shopping...

...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!