(December 1958)
- Price:
- 0.10 USD
- Pages:
- 36
- Indicia frequency:
- ?
- Indicia Publisher:
- Dell Publishing Co., Inc.
- Brand:
- Dell
- Editing:
- ?
- Format:
- Color; standard Golden Age and later Silver Age formats; saddle-stitched; newsprint; was an On-Going Series
Issue Notes
Indicia title is "Walt Scott's CHRISTMAS STORIES, No. 959." Code number is W.S.C.S. O.S. #959-5812. Copyright 1951, 1952, 1953, 1956, 1958 by NEA Service, Inc.
The Songs of Christmas
filler / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Walt Scott
- Inks:
- Walt Scott
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- typeset
Content Information
- Genre:
- fact
- Synopsis:
- The history of various Christmas carols
- Reprints:
- from The Songs of Christmas (NEA Service, Inc) 1951.12.03-1951.12.22 (partial)
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover; black and white. Panels with typeset text. Partial reprint of the 1951 NEA daily Christmas newspaper strip.
The Little People's Christmas
Walt Scott's Christmas Stories / comic story / 11 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Walt Scott
- Pencils:
- Walt Scott
- Inks:
- Walt Scott
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- Walt Scott ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- fantasy
- Characters:
- The Little People [Old One; Wembly; Weesh; Woosh; Loop; Jink; Chub; Cork]; Tar
- Synopsis:
- The Little People build toys for Santa. To celebrate the completion of the job, they plan a party for all the forest animals. While going out to spread the word, three of the Little People fall in a hole and have to be rescued.
- Reprints:
- from The Little People's Christmas (NEA Service, Inc.) 1952.12.01-1952.12.24
Indexer Notes
Reprinted from the 1952 NEA Christmas daily newspaper strip. Unknown if the strips have been altered or cut.
The Animals' Christmas
comic story / 10 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Walt Scott
- Pencils:
- Walt Scott
- Inks:
- Walt Scott
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- Walt Scott ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- fantasy
- Characters:
- Rupert Raccoon; Freddy Fox; Sniffer Mouse; Wilmot Weasel; Wilma Weasel; Broon Bear
- Synopsis:
- In the Valley of the Small Ones, the animals were getting ready for Christmas. Young Freddy Fox has just one thing on his list--a pair of ice skates. But cranky old Wilmot Weasel has the only pair of skates in the valley.
- Reprints:
- from The Animals' Christmas (NEA Service, Inc.) 1956.12.03-1956.12.24
Indexer Notes
Reprinted from the 1956 NEA Christmas daily newspaper strip. Unknown if the strips have been altered or cut.
The Little Tree That Talked
comic story / 11 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Walt Scott (signed)
- Pencils:
- Walt Scott (signed)
- Inks:
- Walt Scott (signed)
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- Walt Scott ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- fantasy
- Characters:
- The Little People [Old One; Wembly; Weesh; Woosh; Loop; Jink; Chub; Cork]; Spirit of Christmas; Scraggly
- Synopsis:
- Chub finds a little spruce tree that talks. The tree is a little person who had been turned into a tree by an evil old witch many years ago.
- Reprints:
- from The Little Tree That Talked (NEA Service, Inc.) 1953.11.30-1953.12.24
Indexer Notes
Reprinted from NEA daily Christmas strip for 1953. Unknown if the reprint is complete or has been altered or cut.
Silent Night, Holy Night
filler / 2 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Walt Scott (signed)
- Pencils:
- Walt Scott (signed)
- Inks:
- Walt Scott (signed)
- Letters:
- typeset
Content Information
- Genre:
- fact
- Characters:
- Franz Gruber; Fr. Joseph Mohr
- Synopsis:
- The story behind the writing of the Christmas carol "Silent Night" in 1818.
- Reprints:
- from The Songs of Christmas (NEA Service, Inc) 1951.12.03-1951.12.22 (partial)
Indexer Notes
Inside back cover; black and white; continued on back cover in color. Panels with typeset text. Partial reprint of the 1951 NEA daily Christmas newspaper strip.
Editing
Table of Contents
-
1.
The Songs of Christmas
-
2.
The Little People's Christmas
Walt Scott's Christmas Stories -
3.
The Animals' Christmas
-
4.
The Little Tree That Talked
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5.
Silent Night, Holy Night
This issue was most recently modified by:
- Merlin Haas
Issues in this series have been indexed by:
- Gene Reed
- Roger A. Budnick
- John P. Selegue
- Merlin Haas
- Ken Lemons
- Chris Launder
- Jim Walls
- Terry Vraspir
- Gary Perlman
- Jerry Hillegas
- Craig Delich
- James Ludwig
- Ray Bottorff Jr
- Kenneth Blair
- Mike Nielsen
- David Porta
- Matthew Torrance
- Ken Kwilinski
- Gary L. Watson
- Gregg Whitmore
- Max Capp
- Tony R. Rose
- Lou Mazzella
- Rodney Hinkle
- Jan Roar Hansen
- Donald Dale Milne
- Karl Wilcox
- Darrel McCann
- Peter Croome
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