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[Andrew999]

Here's a Christmas Quiz question - what's the best Santa comic book story you've ever read?

For me, it would be that Judge Dredd story (can't remember the origin) in which Dredd arrests Santa for housebreaking and sentences the old fella to twenty years in the cubes.

[Robb_K]

For me, it is Carl Barks' 1949 Dell Christmas Parade #1 Donald Duck story, "Letter To Santa", in which Donald and Uncle Scrooge have a steamshovel fight, and both dress up like Santa to deliver gifts to Huey, Dewey, and Louie.  After the 2 uncles dress up like Santa, but fail to fool their nephews, The real Santa Claus appears as well, and we learn how that overly fat man and his large, wide sack of toys all can fit through narrow chimneys.

I also like my colleague, Evert Geradts' 2010 Sinterklaas Dag story, "De Valse Sint" (The Fake Santa), from Dutch "Donald Duck Weekblad" (Donald Duck Weekly) Nr. 48 from that year, which has Oom Dagobert (Uncle Scrooge) as a villain, trying to collect his rents, potentially ruining a lot of good people's Christmas time. It was drawn by my colleague, Sander Gulien.

[The Australian Panther]

Yes, its pretty hard to go past Barks Christmas stories.
For a while there, every Christmas Disney created a new Christmas Story for the newspaper strips, which would go on for a month or so and reach a Climax the day before Christmas. Don't know if they have ever been collected or who wrote and drew them. 

[Robb_K]

Yes, its pretty hard to go past Barks Christmas stories.
For a while there, every Christmas Disney created a new Christmas Story for the newspaper strips, which would go on for a month or so and reach a Climax the day before Christmas. Don't know if they have ever been collected or who wrote and drew them.

Yes, they were collected in two deluxe hardbound long-format volumes, in a similar series to a collection of The Donald Duck Al Taliaferro strips, and The Disney Silly Symphonies strips, all done by US comic book publisher, IDW.  A few of my friends, including an ex-colleague of mine with Danish Disney (Egmont) worked on that project.