I won”t lie to you; Santa’s Christmas Comics is a fairly mediocre funny animal comic book, featuring understandably forgotten characters with names like Goofy Gander, Happy Rabbit, Percy Pig, Merton Monk, etc. published by the company known at various times as Better/Best/Standard/Nedor/Pines (the people who gave us The Black Terror). None of the stories are particularly good and those with a Christmas theme (the ones I’ve posted) aren’t even the best of a lackluster lot. If we weren’t so close to Christmas this title wouldn’t have made the cut.

But we are and I must confess that I like the idea of Santa’s Christmas Comics more than the actual article, the idea that kids actually got comics for Christmas. And the idea that back in the age of the 10 cent comic there were these strange 100 page, squarebound artifacts, mostly likely collated from the remains of a bunch of remaindered comics that had their covers striped.

So in the spirit of critical forgiveness I give you Santa’s Christmas Comics:

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