Four Color
#959 - Walt Scott's Christmas Stories
(December 1958)
Dell,
1942 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- On-sale Date
- 1958
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Dell Publishing Co., Inc.
- Brand
-
Dell
- Printer
- Printed in U.S.A.
- Editing
- ?
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.
[no title indexed]
Walt Scott's Christmas Stories / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Walt Scott (signed) (painting)
- Inks
- Walt Scott (signed) (painting)
- Colors
- Walt Scott (signed) (painting)
in 
The Songs of Christmas
comic story / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Walt Scott
- Inks
- Walt Scott
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- non-fiction
- 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
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- 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
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- 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
- Script
- Walt Scott (signed)
- Pencils
- Walt Scott (signed)
- Inks
- Walt Scott (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Walt Scott ?
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- 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
comic story / 2 pages
- Script
- Walt Scott (signed)
- Pencils
- Walt Scott (signed)
- Inks
- Walt Scott (signed)
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- non-fiction
- 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.
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
Walt Scott's Christmas Stories -
1.
The Songs of Christmas
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2.
The Little People's Christmas
Walt Scott's Christmas Stories -
3.
The Animals' Christmas
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4.
The Little Tree That Talked
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5.
Silent Night, Holy Night
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