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Friday, December 16, 2022

Friday Holiday Fun COOKIE "Do Your Christmas Shopping Early"

How do you make some extra cash for Christmas presents?

If you're a comic book "typical American" teenager named "Cookie", it's usually the hard way...

This teen humor strip from Cookie #10 (1947) was written and illustrated by Dan Gordon, who had been a writer-animator-director for the Fleischer Studios (Superman, Popeye), then went into comics, finally returning to animation at Hanna-Barbera where he co-created (among others) The Flintstones!
Note: the only surviving ongoing teen humor line at Archie Comics has a huge number of Christmas-themed stories featuring Archie and Betty & Veronica!

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Thursday, December 15, 2022

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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Wednesday, December 14, 2022

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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Tuesday, December 13, 2022

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!