Santa Claus Conquers the Martians was a low budget loser as a movie that became a great cult film. Here’s what may have been the only tie-in at the time of the original release-the comic book adaptation.

http://mailittoteamup.blogspot.com/2010/12/25-days-of-christmas_24.html

Here’s another sixties adaptation, this one a Gold Key showcase for the always welcome art of Dan Spiegle, here on the one and only issue of the now-forgotten Walt Disney TV character, Gallegher.

http://www.goldkeystories.com/2010/12/man-with-missing-finger.html

Back to the Christmas season again over at Pappy’s with a holiday-themed 1947story of Simon and Kirby’s Boy Commandos only here drawn by later Superman artist extraordinaire, Curt Swan.

http://pappysgoldenage.blogspot.com/2010/12/number-866-christmas-crime-comes-once.html

Finally today, here’s newspaper soldier Beetle Bailey taking Sarge home with him for a Christmas leave in an extended sixties sequence. We here at ITCH and Yoe Books wish a wonderful holiday weekend to you and yours!

http://pappysgoldenage.blogspot.com/2010/12/number-866-christmas-crime-comes-once.html