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!
Tuesday, December 23, 2025
Monday, December 22, 2025
Monday Mecha Madness ASTRO BOY Manga "Gademu" Conclusion
...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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Sunday, December 21, 2025
Comics About the Guy Christmas is Named After!
It's the Sunday before Christmas, an appropriate time to look at comic book stories about...
...the birth of Jesus Christ, the one and only!
BTW, your eyes do not deceive you!
Marvel Comics published a one-shot about the origin of Christ!
You can read that long out-of-print story by clicking on these links...
But there's more!
Here's a shorter, never-reprinted version from Marvel's 1950s predecessor, Atlas Comics...
From a small publisher who did only a half-dozen comics, all based on Christian themes...
Fiction House, noted for really-fun series like Planet Comics and Sheena: Queen of the Jungle took a somewhat more sensationalistic approach to telling the story of the Nativity....using 3-D!
and Finally...
EC Comics, aka Entertaining Comics, the guys who later gave the world graphic horror in Tales from the Crypt, Vault of Horror, and Haunt of Fear began as Educational Comics, publishing wholesome material like Picture Stories from Science, Picture Stories from American History, Picture Stories from World History, and Picture Stories from the Bible...which ran material based on the Old Testament!
They added a second series of Bible tales, this time from the New Testament, kicking off with Christ's birth!
As you'll see, they gave very little attention to the actual event, covering the whole thing in only 1 1/2pages!
They added a second series of Bible tales, this time from the New Testament, kicking off with Christ's birth!
As you'll see, they gave very little attention to the actual event, covering the whole thing in only 1 1/2pages!
Saturday, December 20, 2025
Space Hero Saturdays FLASH GORDON "and the Space Pirates" Conclusion
When Last We Left Flash Gordon (ahh-ahh!)...
...there's more to the plot, but it's easier for you to just read Part 1 & Part 2 than have me explain it.
BTW, Patch has her silver/white hair and original clothes from Part 1 back, while Flash is in a new uniform!
Sadly, we've never seen that showdown!
The tale, illustrated by Gil Kane, appeared in the back of King Comics' The Phantom #20 (1966) and the writer is unknown.The storyline wasn't concluded in Flash's King Comics title and neither Patch nor Straker have ever appeared anywhere else.
Friday, December 19, 2025
Friday Holiday Fun CHRISTMAS CARNIVAL "Wolf Who Didn't Believe in Santa Claus"
Here's a Yuletide Tale I Can Guarantee You've Never Read...
...unless you're over 75, involving four of the most famous characters in fairy tales!
This combo of Yuletide and children's fantasy, unseen since the 1950s, appeared in Ziff-Davis' one-shot 100-page Christmas Carnival (1952)!
Sadly, the writer and artist (or writer and artists or writer/artist) is unknown, since few records still exist after Ziff-Davis, which is still publishing other magazines, closed the comics division in 1957, selling most of its' assets (both published and unpublished material) to St John Publishing, which itself closed up shop in 1959!
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