It’s time for the celebration of Christmas at the Golden Age of Comic Books Blog and Podcast! I hope that you and yours have a wonderful Holiday Season, and that your time is spent with family and friends. Here are a couple of Christmas covers from the Golden Age of Comic Books that are guaranteed to [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Christmas’
Golden Age of Comic Books Podcast #65 – Fifth Annual Christmas Episode!
Merry Christmas from the Golden Age of Comic Books Podcast and welcome to our fifth annual Christmas episode! For Christmas 2009, we tell the story of ”Captain Marvel and the Plot Against Christmas” from Captain Marvel Adventures #42 (January 1945).
In this story, Captain Marvel foils the plot of Gouge Smith to deprive the orphans of the [...]
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Christmas Covers, Revisited, Part 2
Yes, Virginia, even Christmas covers with Santa Claus get swiped! As I noted last year in a post showcasing DC’s earliest Christmas covers, one of the best know “Christmas cover swipes” is Al Feldstein’s swipe of Vince Sullivan’s cover to More Fun Comics #16 for his now classic cover to EC’s Panic #1.
It’s tough to [...]
Christmas in July
For me, July 25th 2009 was “Christmas in July” for reasons other than just the date. This weekend, I picked up a number of Golden Age (and pre-Golden Age) comic books, many of which were “Christmas” themed. In fact, some of these issues are the oldest comic books I own.
The highlight of my “summer Christmas” was [...]
A Christmas Carol Classic
In the Christmas 2008 Golden Age of Comic Books Podcast (Episode 60), I talked about one of my favorite Golden Age characters, Uncle Scrooge McDuck. Of course we all know that the “original” Scrooge was created by Charles Dickens in his 1843 novel, A Christmas Carol. Although Dickens reportedly rushed through the creation of this [...]