Comments on: The First Golden Age Christmas Cover http://goldenagecomics.org/wordpress/2008/12/05/the-first-golden-age-christmas-cover/ Home of the Golden Age of Comic Books Podcast Wed, 18 Jan 2012 20:23:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Christmas in July – Golden Age of Comic Books http://goldenagecomics.org/wordpress/2008/12/05/the-first-golden-age-christmas-cover/comment-page-1/#comment-1777 Christmas in July – Golden Age of Comic Books Sun, 26 Jul 2009 03:52:33 +0000 http://goldenagecomics.org/wordpress/?p=251#comment-1777 [...] Christmas cover on a newsstand comic book.  I was very thrilled, and lucky, to get all three.  I covered these issues in a previous blog post. #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; [...] [...] Christmas cover on a newsstand comic book.  I was very thrilled, and lucky, to get all three.  I covered these issues in a previous blog post. #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; [...]

]]> By: Bill Jourdain http://goldenagecomics.org/wordpress/2008/12/05/the-first-golden-age-christmas-cover/comment-page-1/#comment-23 Bill Jourdain Sun, 07 Dec 2008 13:49:10 +0000 http://goldenagecomics.org/wordpress/?p=251#comment-23 I need to find some of those to read. I talked all about Christmas covers in my very first Christmas show, <a href="http://goldenagecomics.org/wordpress/2005/12/19/golden-age-of-comic-books-december-19-2005-29/" rel="nofollow">#29 - 12/19/05</a>. I talked about my favorite Batman and Superman Christmas stories in the second Christmas show, <a href="http://goldenagecomics.org/wordpress/2006/12/17/golden-age-of-comics-december-17-2006-48/" rel="nofollow">#48 - 12/17/05</a>. I need to find some of those to read. I talked all about Christmas covers in my very first Christmas show, #29 – 12/19/05. I talked about my favorite Batman and Superman Christmas stories in the second Christmas show, #48 – 12/17/05.

]]> By: Pat Curley http://goldenagecomics.org/wordpress/2008/12/05/the-first-golden-age-christmas-cover/comment-page-1/#comment-22 Pat Curley Sun, 07 Dec 2008 05:51:27 +0000 http://goldenagecomics.org/wordpress/?p=251#comment-22 I actually have an issue of Star Comics in my collection (#7) and it's a terrific book, with 16 pages of Fred Guardineer artwork, including an exquisite four pages of Dan Hastings (Buck Rogers clone) that has had me salivating for more for years (so far I've managed to read two other issues). Unfortunately they don't come up for sale very often on ebay, especially the early, oversized issues. They're interesting books in that they were clearly intended for the whole family, much like the comics in the newspapers. One of the features in Star Comics, King Cole's Court, for example is a witty (and conservative) satire on FDR, and the issue I have features a takeoff on Roosevelt's attempt to pack the Supreme Court with extra judges. Startling stuff in a comic, and yes, there was a lot of very un-PC art on the covers and inside. Didn't you do a podcast where you talked about the Christmas covers in Batman? I loved those issues, as well as the ones on Action comics. I actually have an issue of Star Comics in my collection (#7) and it’s a terrific book, with 16 pages of Fred Guardineer artwork, including an exquisite four pages of Dan Hastings (Buck Rogers clone) that has had me salivating for more for years (so far I’ve managed to read two other issues). Unfortunately they don’t come up for sale very often on ebay, especially the early, oversized issues. They’re interesting books in that they were clearly intended for the whole family, much like the comics in the newspapers. One of the features in Star Comics, King Cole’s Court, for example is a witty (and conservative) satire on FDR, and the issue I have features a takeoff on Roosevelt’s attempt to pack the Supreme Court with extra judges. Startling stuff in a comic, and yes, there was a lot of very un-PC art on the covers and inside.

Didn’t you do a podcast where you talked about the Christmas covers in Batman? I loved those issues, as well as the ones on Action comics.

]]> By: Bill Jourdain http://goldenagecomics.org/wordpress/2008/12/05/the-first-golden-age-christmas-cover/comment-page-1/#comment-21 Bill Jourdain Sat, 06 Dec 2008 15:27:00 +0000 http://goldenagecomics.org/wordpress/?p=251#comment-21 Thanks, Pat. That's an interesting cover, particularly with Mickey Mouse and Popeye toys, and I took the liberty of adding a link to it in your comment. Star Comics had some interesting covers, and some that would not be PC today. Thanks, Pat. That’s an interesting cover, particularly with Mickey Mouse and Popeye toys, and I took the liberty of adding a link to it in your comment. Star Comics had some interesting covers, and some that would not be PC today.

]]> By: Pat Curley http://goldenagecomics.org/wordpress/2008/12/05/the-first-golden-age-christmas-cover/comment-page-1/#comment-19 Pat Curley Sat, 06 Dec 2008 06:32:11 +0000 http://goldenagecomics.org/wordpress/?p=251#comment-19 <a href="http://www.gcdcovers.com/graphics/covers/89/400/89_4_08.jpg" rel="nofollow">Star Comics #8</a> (1937) has an interesting Christmas cover, with Santa toting presents that include both Mickey Mouse and Popeye dolls, two characters that I presume Chesler had no rights to publish (and indeed they did not appear inside). Star Comics #8 (1937) has an interesting Christmas cover, with Santa toting presents that include both Mickey Mouse and Popeye dolls, two characters that I presume Chesler had no rights to publish (and indeed they did not appear inside).

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