Holiday Reading Room CHRISTMAS CARNIVAL "Santa's Red Red Nose"

What happens if Kris Kringle gets sick on Christmas Eve?

This tale from St John's Christmas 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! ;-)
This tale (and the entire Christmas Carnival 100-page 25-cent book) were published twice!
Once in 1952 by Ziff-Davis and again in 1955 by St John Publishing, which bought the Ziff-Davis comics line's material when the publisher liquidated that division after the "Seduction of the Innocent" witch hunt!
Ironic, since Ziff-Davis Comics was one of the least-offensive publishers on the magazine racks!
The writer and artist(s) are unknown.

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Great Treasury of Christmas Comic Book Stories

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder ATARI FORCE Part Three "Chapter Two: Planet of the Doomed"

We Have Already Seen...

...attacked by a gigantic, multi-tentacled creature, the crew of Atari's experimental multiverse-spanning ship Scanner One hastily-activate the vessel's dimension warp engines..without setting a course!

The Action Continues...

NEXT WEDNESDAY!

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Art of Atari

Holiday Reading Room SPELLBOUND "When You Believe"

Considering A Christmas Story was directed by the guy who directed the original Black Christmas (1974)..

...it's almost a miracle that holiday classic didn't end up like this Xmas tale of a boy and his toy gun!

Rendered beautifully by Bill Everett, this Yuletide tale from Atlas' Spellbound #16 (1953) appeared during the height of the horror comics craze of the early 1950s.

The identity of the writer is, sadly, unknown.

When the story was reprinted in Marvel's Weird Wonder Tales #3 (1974), only the first panel of the opening page was slightly-modified, eliminating almost all the text!

I have no idea why!

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Black Christmas (1974)

Directed by Bob Clark (A Christmas Story)

or

Black Christmas (2006)

The Unrated, Gorier Remake!
or

Black Christmas (2019)

The Even Gorier Semi-Remake!

Monday Madness CHRISTMAS WITH MOTHER GOOSE "3 Blind Mice and a Christmas Deed"

Sometimes Walt (Pogo) Kelly combined several nursery rhyme or fairy tale characters...

...into something totally-new, like this never-reprinted story from Dell's Four Color Comics: Christmas with Mother Goose #172 (1947)!

Interesting how the mice reference the actual Mother Hubbard nursery rhyme!

"Meta" before it was "meta", eh?

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Great Treasury of Christmas Comic Book Stories

Christmas at Ground Zero---It's Earlier than You Think!

At this time of year, Christmas carols are in continuous rotation on radio stations and in the Atomic Kommie Comics™ office.

(Remember when this didn't happen until after Thanksgiving?)

One of our favorites is Christmas at Ground Zero by "Weird" Al Yankovic.

(You were expecting maybe Adeste Fidelis?)

Which brings us to, perhaps, the most unusual theme for potential Christmas presents (and, you gotta admit, we've had some real weirdies!)...atomic Armageddon!

BTW, our apologies...the brand-new link directly from YouTube does a weird re-routing, so you have to click on the video embed to go directly to YouTube instead of being able to watch it on the blog!

Within our sci-fi-oriented The Future WAS Fantastic!™ section is the Atomic War line of kool collectibles with classic comic book covers from the fear-filled '50s, featuring the nuclear destruction of New York City (see above), Washington DC, and Moscow on black hoodies, sweats, and tees, as well as mugs and other tchochkies!
So for all you survivalists out there, while you duck n' cover under the Christmas tree, prepare for the irradiated end stylishly with our radiation-proof (not really!) garb and goodies!