Monday Madness HUMBUG "A CHRISTMAS CAROL"

Here's one of the koolest adaptations of Dickens' classic story...

...and most people don't even know it exists!

Note: the interior pages were two-color instead of the usual comic book-style four color.

The next-to-last page of the story is from the one-color inside front cover, while the final page was the four-color back cover of the magazine!

Illustrated by Arnold Roth, it's never been established who wrote this tale from Humbug! #6 (1958)!

It could be Roth, Harvey Kurtzman, Will Elder, Al Jaffee, or even all of them in a collaboration!

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Design of the Month "Bah, Humbug!"

Usually, each week, we post a limited-edition design, to be sold for exactly 7 days...

...however, we feel that this phrase is so concise, so important, that it should remain available to our audience for the entire month!
With Christmas approaching, let's celebrate with the most famous phrase of the man who personifies the Trumpian XMas Spirit ... Ebenezer Scrooge in a kool retro Victorian-era font!

 Available in either white/silver on dark items or red/green on white or light-colored items.

HUMBUG!

Not just Scrooge's favorite phrase...

Art by Jack Davis

...for just over a year in 1957-58, it was a kool humor magazine edited by Harvey Kurtzman after the cancellation of TRUMP, a magazine Kutzman intended to be a more adult version of MAD.

For their Christmastime issue, they, of course, adapted Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol.

See it here, on Monday...

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Friday Fun A CHRISTMAS CAROL (1971)

The Definitive Animated Version...

...starring Alistair Sim as the Voice of Scrooge!

It won both the Oscar and Emmy for best animated short subject.
Based on the illustrations for the first edition of the book by John Leech, animator Richard (Pink Panther movies) Williams' film is a superb condensation of the novella into only 25 minutes!
And both Alistair Sim (as Scrooge) and Michael Hodern (as Marley) reprise their roles from the classic 1951 live-action movie!

Go "full screen" and enjoy!

AND...IT'S NOT AVAILABLE ON DVD or BLU-RAY!

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Holiday Reading Room BIBLE TALES FOR YOUNG FOLKS "Nativity: the Birth of Jesus

Over the years, many comics companies did Bible-themed projects...

...such as Atlas Comics' Bible Tales for Young Folk which presented this never-reprinted story in its first issue!

The writer is unknown, but the penciler/inker is the legendary Joe Sinnott, best known for his inking of Jack Kirby and John Buscema on the Fantastic Four during the Silver Age.

(In truth, Joe's done an incredible amount of truly-spectacular work in comics, but that's the first thing most fans think of.)

Joe also did quite a bit of work for Treasure Chest, a comic distributed semi-monthly only to parochial schools during the school year that ran over 500 issues.

Oddly, none of Sinnott's stories were Bible adaptations (which TC did a lot of).

Bible Tales lasted five issues in 1953 and '54, mixing New and Old Testament stories into each issue, illustrated by the cream of the Atlas (later Marvel) Comics crew including; Jerry Robinson, Don Rico, Syd Shores, Fred Kida, Bernie Krigstein, Bill Everett, Joe Maneely, and Gene Colan!

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