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| Thank you, Pyramid, for making available this Golden Age Christmas book. |
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| Publication | November 1950 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 |
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| Featuring | Santa Claus Funnies |
| Credits | Pencils:? (painting) | Inks:? (painting) | Colors:? (painting) |
| Content | Genre: Fantasy | Characters: Santa Claus |
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| Text Story | Bells of Christmas (1 page) |
| Credits | Script: Eugene Field | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Religious | Characters: Joseph; Mary; Jesus Christ |
| Notes | Inside front cover; black, white, and red. Uncredited Christmas poem by Eugene Field, originally entitled "Song" in "The Poems of Eugene Field" (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1924). Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007). |
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| Comic Story | No Presents for Christmas (9 pages) |
| Synopsis | Santa loses his toys when they fall out of his bag while traveling in his airborne sleigh. |
| Content | Genre: Fantasy | Characters: Santa Claus |
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| Comic Story | Santa's Surprise (10 pages) |
| Synopsis | A 19th century circus stops near a small village in the mountains on Christmas Eve. They are the last ones on Santa's list and when he stops to deliver the presents, he is mistaken for a prowler. Amused, Santa decides to deliver the presents as part of the circus show. |
| Content | Genre: Fantasy | Characters: Santa Claus |
| Notes | Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007). |
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| Activity | Color Jolly Santa Claus (1 page) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Characters: Santa Claus |
| Notes | A drawing of Santa Claus to color. Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007). |
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| Comic Story | Teddy Bear in Toyland (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | Teddy Bear wants to be chosen as one of Santa's gifts to children, but isn't. Tiger Cat is chosen, but he doesn't want to go with Santa and plots with others to hijack the train and escape from Toyland. |
| Content | Genre: Anthropomorphic-funny Animals; Fantasy | Characters: Teddy Bear; Tiger Cat |
| Notes | Pencils credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007). |
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| Comic Story | Santa's First Visit (12 pages) |
| Synopsis | Ole Young sends his young son off to the North Pole to tell Santa Claus that there are settlers in America. With help from some friendly Indians and a magic arrow, Peter and Little White Owl, an Indian girl, go to meet Santa, right before as he is readying to leave on his Christmas trip. |
| Content | Genre: Fantasy | Characters: Santa Claus |
| Notes | Panels with text underneath. Script, pencils, and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007). |
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| Comic Story | Santa's Christmas Presents (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | Santa decides to deliver his presents with an airplane, but it crashes. He then tries using a helicopter, but that doesn't work either. Santa's reindeer find Santa and he finishes his trip in traditional fashion. |
| Content | Genre: Fantasy | Characters: Santa Claus |
| Notes | Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007). |
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| Text Story | O Come, Little Children (1 page) |
| Notes | Inside back cover; black, white, and red. Lyrics to a Christmas carol with five illustrations. Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007). |
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| Comic Story | Kitten and Christmas Stocking (1 page) |
| Synopsis | A kitten gets more than it bargained for when it snags a loose thread on a Christmas stocking. |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | Back cover. Pantomime story. Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007). |
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