From the Christmas season of 1973, here’s THE MARVEL FAMILY from DC’s ill-fated but not really so bad revival. The Sivana Family is up to some holiday tricks courtesy of writer Elliot S! Maggin and veteran Fawcett artist Kurt Schaffenberger.

http://diversionsofthegroovykind.blogspot.com/2009/12/12-days-of-christmas-year-without.html

Staying in a holiday mood, here’s part one of THE definitive Disney duck Christmas story, 1951′s “A Christmas for Shacktown,” here from a 1963 reprinting. Carl Barks writes and draws a story so far removed from Disney’s cinematic DONALD DUCK cartoons that it’s hard to consider them the same character.

http://magiccarpetburn.blogspot.com/2009/12/carl-barks-donald-duck-christmas-for.html

“Winky the Toymaker” is another old-fashioned children’s comic by the recently deceased Irving Tripp, this one from a Dell Four Color that was on the stands for Christmas of 1958, just a few weeks before I was born.

http://www.bigblogcomics.com/2009/12/winky-toymaker.html

When I was a kid, on snowy Sunday mornings, we’d curl up with the funnies and find out what Chester Gould’s DICK TRACY was up to. Oh, no! Looks like Tracy’s stuck in the same snow most of the rest of the country is stuck in! And the Mole’s on the loose! What’ll our hero do?

http://tencentdreams.blogspot.com/2009/12/12-days-of-x-mas-dick-tracy-freak.html