| Additional Information |
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| Publication | November 1949 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 |
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| Featuring | Santa Claus Funnies |
| Content | Genre: Fantasy |
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| Text Story | Christmas in the Heart (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Christmas at the rich, the poor, and the city and what unites it all. |
| Content | Genre: Domestic |
| Notes | Inside front cover; black and white. Text and illustrations. Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007). A Christmas poem by an unknown poet (this is not the poem of the same name by Paul Laurence Dunbar.) |
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| Comic Story | Santa's First Helper (12 pages) |
| Synopsis | Puggy Pink, a dwarf, volunteers to be Santa's first helper in making toys. Santa leaves him at a little girl's house to be a temporary fill-in for the doll that isn't ready at Christmas. |
| Content | Genre: Fantasy | Characters: Puggy Pink (dwarf); Reddy Fox; Hubert (dog); Mary Contrary |
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| Comic Story | A Visit from Saint Nicholas (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | A man is awoken by the arrival of Saint Nicholas. |
| Content | Genre: Fantasy | Characters: Saint Nicholas [Santa Claus] |
| Notes | Illustrated version of the 1823 poem by Clement Clarke Moore, sometimes titled "The Night Before Christmas." Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007). |
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| Comic Story | The Land Without Christmas (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Santa uses a rocket to take a test trip to a distant star and a land ruled by the bad-humored King Pepy. The inhabitants knew of Santa but the land had been too far away for Santa to visit previously. When Santa doesn't have any presents for them, they become angry and Santa is forced to hitch a ride home on a shooting star. |
| Content | Genre: Fantasy | Characters: Brainy; Dasher; Dancer; King Pepy; Snoopy |
| Notes | Script, pencils, and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007). |
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| Activity | Visit Santa Game (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | A game to advance on a trip to see Santa. |
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| Comic Story | Santa Claus and Timothy's Horse (10 pages) |
| Synopsis | Selfish Timothy Tucker redeems himself in Santa's eyes by giving away his prized (but broken) rocking horse to firemen who are repairing toys to give as Christmas gifts. |
| Content | Genre: Fantasy | Characters: Timothy Tucker; Sparkie (elf); Flash (elf); Dash (elf); Joe; Rocky; Donner; Blitzen; Dasher; Prancer |
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| Activity | Baby Reindeer Cut-Out (1 page) |
| Notes | A drawing of a reindeer to cut-out and fold into a standing figure. |
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| Comic Story | Albert and Pogo's Christmas (12 pages) |
| Synopsis | Albert dresses up to play Santa Claus for the swamp's children. |
| Featuring | Albert and Pogo |
| Content | Genre: Anthropomorphic-funny Animals | Characters: Pogo; Albert; Mrs. Rackety Coon; Dee-licious; Churchy La Femme (cameo); Howland Owl (cameo) |
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| Text Story | Long, Long Ago (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: Religious | Characters: Joseph; Mary |
| Notes | Inside back cover; black and white. Text and illustrations. A Christmas carol by an unknown writer. |
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| Text Story | Christmas Carol [As Joseph Was A-Walking] (1 page) |
| Synopsis | The story of Christ's birth in a stable. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Characters: Joseph; Mary |
| Notes | Back cover; text and illustrations. An abridged version of the traditional English Christmas carol "As Joseph Was A-Waukin'" as printed in The Home Book of Verse, Volume 1 (New York, Henry Holt and Company, 1912.) One stanza is omitted and the spelling is slightly modified. |
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