MERRY CHRISTMAS!

DC published a dozen annual issues of RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER beginning not long after the original record came out and continuing into the early sixties. There was even an all-new revival in the seventies! Here’s Pappy with a fun 1953 edition!

http://pappysgoldenage.blogspot.com/2009/12/number-655-rudolph-in-gorgonzola-what.html

A rare 1942 Walt Kelly department store giveaway comic (Remember those? They still had ‘em when I was a kid in the sixties) reprints Kelly’s adaptation of Hans Christian Anderson’s “The Little Fir Tree.” See it here:

http://hairygreeneyeball2.blogspot.com/2009/12/merry-christmas.html

Hey, let’s all sing some Christmas carols! And let’s sing ‘em with Popeye, Jiggs, Buz Sawyer and Rip Kirby and all the King Features gang! Here’s a wonderfully illustrated songbook from 1949 with exclusive work by Frank Godwin, Alex Raymond, Hal Foster and many more!

http://goldenagecomicbookstories.blogspot.com/2009/12/merry-christmas-everyone-sing-with-king.html

Here’s a little-known holiday comic strip run entitled HEAVENLY DAZE described as “the Christmas adventure of an angel and his flying dachshund.”

http://allthingsger.blogspot.com/2009/12/see-you-in-heaven-friday-christmas.html