Four Color
#175 - Santa Claus Funnies
(December 1947)
Dell,
1942 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 52
- On-sale Date
- 1947-10-28
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
- Brand
-
A Dell Magazine [circle]
- Printer
- Printed in U.S.A.
- Editing
- ?
Issue Notes
Indicia title is "SANTA CLAUS FUNNIES, No. 175." Code number is S.C.F. #175-4712. Copyright 1947 by Oskar LeBeck.
On sale date is date of publication per Catalog of Copyright Entries, 1947 Pamphlets, page 444.
On sale date is date of publication per Catalog of Copyright Entries, 1947 Pamphlets, page 444.
[A Letter to Santa]
Santa Claus Funnies / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Morris Gollub (painting)
- Inks
- Morris Gollub (painting)
- Colors
- Morris Gollub (painting)
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Santa Claus; Trundle; Matilda Doll; Teddy Bear; Blackie (dog); Blitzen (reindeer)
- Keywords
- Christmas; elves; reindeer; stuffed animals
Indexer Notes
Cover scene is from first interior story.
[no title indexed]
comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Oh, it's fun to be traveling at Christmas...
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Synopsis
- Mice travel in a stagecoach pulled by rabbits in order to get home for Christmas.
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover; black, red, and white.
A Letter to Santa
comic story / 21 pages
- Script
- Oskar Lebeck (credited as O. Lebeck)
- Pencils
- Morris Gollub (credited as M. Gollub)
- Inks
- Morris Gollub (credited as M. Gollub)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Santa Claus; Trundle; Matilda Doll; Teddy Bear; Blackie (dog); Blitzen (reindeer)
- Synopsis
- Santa receives a letter from Teddy Bear saying that the children to which Santa gave him, Matilda Doll, and Blackie the pup last Christmas have mistreated them. Santa sends Trundle the gnome on Blitzen to retrieve the three. He takes Blackie to an animal hospital and then takes the toys to a doll clinic where they are repaired and given to children at a hospital for convalescent children. The dog had been nursed back to health and given to the hospital, too. The three all go home with a boy and girl and are visited by Santa at the next Christmas.
Santa's Mistake
text story / 6 pages
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Santa Claus; Snoozle
- Synopsis
- Snoozle the elf falls asleep in a doll box and gets taken along on Santa's Christmas trip.
- Reprints
-
in Tampa Comiccon Comics Presents: Santa Claus Funnies (Tim Gordon, 2009 series) #1 (November 2009), #1 (November 2009)
-
Indexer Notes
Text story with large illustration surrounding the text on each page.
At Christmas Time
comic story / 2 pages
- Genre
- historical
- Characters
- Santa Claus (cameo)
- Synopsis
- Waiting for Santa in medieval times.
Indexer Notes
Illustrations with text underneath.
The Great Three-Flavored Blizzard
comic story / 11 pages
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Santa Claus; Easter Bunny; Fuzzychin; Twinkle the elf; the Weatherman; Moe
- Synopsis
- Fuzzychin and the Easter Bunny go to see Santa. They find that Twinkle the elf, the messenger Santa sent to the weatherman to find out why there is no snow, has not returned. The pair go to the weatherman's house and find that Twinkle and the weatherman are trying to repair the "Season Machine," which is stuck on "Summer." The season machine gets fixed but the next problem is that the snow machine is out of raw materials. Santa and the elves bring substitutes that produce snow made of ice cream.
- Reprints
- in The Great Treasury of Christmas Comic Book Stories (Yoe Books, 2010 series) (December 2010)
- in The Great Treasury of Christmas Comic Book Stories (IDW, 2018 series) (November 2018)
-
Let's Make Puppets
activity / 2 pages
Indexer Notes
How to make puppets out of cardboard tubes, cotton batting, and papier mache. Also how to make a stage.
A Christmas Play in Three Acts with Two Scenes
comic story / 6 pages
- Characters
- Santa Claus; Tiny Tinkle; Kathrina; William
- Synopsis
- Santa rescues two children from their wicked stepmother.
Indexer Notes
The play is set up to use the puppets from the preceding sequence.
The Christmas Mouse
comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Santa Claus
- Synopsis
- Santa leaves a mouse some cheese for a present.
- Reprints
- in The Great Treasury of Christmas Comic Book Stories (Yoe Books, 2010 series) (December 2010)
- in The Great Treasury of Christmas Comic Book Stories (IDW, 2018 series) (November 2018)
-
Indexer Notes
Inside back cover; black, red, and white; pantomime story.
And Now-Merry Christmas To All!
illustration / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Morris Gollub (painting)
- Inks
- Morris Gollub (painting)
- Colors
- Morris Gollub (painting)
- Letters
- ?
- Characters
- Santa Claus
- Synopsis
- Santa holding a poster with the title on it.
Indexer Notes
Back cover.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[A Letter to Santa]
Santa Claus Funnies -
1.
["Oh, it's fun to be traveling at Christmas..."]
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2.
A Letter to Santa
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3.
Santa's Mistake
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4.
At Christmas Time
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5.
The Great Three-Flavored Blizzard
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6.
Let's Make Puppets
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7.
A Christmas Play in Three Acts with Two Scenes
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8.
The Christmas Mouse
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9.
And Now-Merry Christmas To All!
This issue was modified by, among others
- Alberto Becattini
- Dwayne Best
- Pat Conolly
- Merlin Haas
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Michael Hoskin
- Bob Hughes
- Keith Alan Morgan
- Scott Pell
- Dave Porta
- Tony R. Rose
- Claus Simonsen
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