Four Color
#867 - Santa Claus Funnies
(December 1957)
Dell,
1942 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- On-sale Date
- 1957
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
- Brand
-
Dell
- Printer
- Printed in U.S.A.
- Editing
- ?
Issue Notes
Indicia title is "SANTA CLAUS FUNNIES, No. 867". Code number is SANTA.C.F.O.S. #867-5712. Thirteenth of seventeen Santa Claus Funnies Four Color issues.
Christmas Eve
text story / 2 pages
- Characters
- Santa Claus
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover, continued on inside back cover; black and white. Poem with one large illustration on each page.
Santa's Suit
comic story / 8 pages
- Job Number
- SANTA C..F.O.S. #867-5712
- Characters
- Santa Claus; Mrs. Claus
- Synopsis
- Santa's red suit blows off the clothesline where Mrs. Claus put it to air out before Santa's big Christmas trip. The suit blows to the door of Pete Polar Bear who assumes it's a Christmas present for him.
Indexer Notes
Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
[Stocking word scramble]
activity / 1 page
- Characters
- Santa Claus
- Synopsis
- Santa crawls out of a chimney to find eight stockings with scrambled letters on them. The object is to rearrange the letters on each stocking to form a sentence.
Indexer Notes
Large illustration with typeset text.
Santa's Helper
comic story / 6 pages
- Characters
- Santa Claus
- Synopsis
- Santa enlists Kenny to help him when his address book gets wet in a blizzard and the ink runs.
Indexer Notes
Pencils credit for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
Christmas in Many Lands
text article / 2 pages
- Synopsis
- Facts about Christmas celebrations in many countries.
Indexer Notes
Text with six illustrations on the outside margins.
Sooky's First Christmas
comic story / 8 pages
- Characters
- Santa Claus
- Synopsis
- Sooky the pup slips out the front door of his house and gets caught in a snowstorm on Christmas eve.
- 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)
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Indexer Notes
Pencils, inks, and letters credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
[Christmas Tree Connect-the-Dots]
activity / 1 page
Indexer Notes
Black and white. Connect-the-dots puzzle of a Christmas tree.
A Christmas Present for Betsy Mouse
comic story / 6 pages
- Characters
- Santa Claus
- Synopsis
- Betsy Mouse's father scavenges a Christmas tree (and eludes a cat) to find material to make his daughter a golden cradle for a present.
Indexer Notes
Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
Santa Claus Funnies
Santa Claus -
1.
Christmas Eve
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2.
Santa's Suit
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3.
[Stocking word scramble]
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4.
Santa's Helper
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5.
Christmas in Many Lands
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6.
Sooky's First Christmas
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7.
[Christmas Tree Connect-the-Dots]
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8.
A Christmas Present for Betsy Mouse
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9.
[Charge It]
The Bright Twins
This issue was modified by, among others
- Alberto Becattini
- Dwayne Best
- Merlin Haas
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Alan Hutchinson
- Dan Kocher
- Keith Alan Morgan
- Tony R. Rose
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