{"id":1604,"date":"2010-12-25T23:54:01","date_gmt":"2010-12-26T04:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goldenagecomics.org\/wordpress\/?p=1604"},"modified":"2010-12-25T23:58:32","modified_gmt":"2010-12-26T04:58:32","slug":"a-golden-age-archie-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/goldenagecomics.org\/wordpress\/2010\/12\/25\/a-golden-age-archie-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"A Golden Age Archie Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always been a fan of Golden Age Archie comics.\u00a0 It should also be pretty clear to anyone who has read the blog that I love Christmas, especially as it is depicted in the Golden Age of Comic Books!\u00a0 While I&#8217;ve covered a lot of aspects of Christmas in the Golden Age, I&#8217;ve never mentioned some of my favorite Archie Christmas covers from the late Golden Age of Comics (and a little into the Silver Age).\u00a0 Starting in 1954, Archie began publishing<em> Archie Giant Series Magazine<\/em>.\u00a0 The first six issues of this publication were titled, <em>Archie&#8217;s Christmas Stocking<\/em>.\u00a0 These issues contained some classic Christmas stories.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve read a few over the years, but would recommend them for any fan of Archie and the Golden Age of Comic Books.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1606\" style=\"width: 217px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/goldenagecomics.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/203836.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1606\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1606\" title=\"Archie Giant Series Magazine #1 (Archie's Christmas Stocking)\" src=\"http:\/\/goldenagecomics.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/203836-207x300.jpg\" alt=\"Archie Giant Series Magazine #1 (Archie's Christmas Stocking)\" width=\"207\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/goldenagecomics.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/203836-207x300.jpg 207w, http:\/\/goldenagecomics.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/203836-103x150.jpg 103w, http:\/\/goldenagecomics.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/203836.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 207px) 100vw, 207px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1606\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Archie&#39;s Giant Series Magazine #1 (Archie&#39;s Christmas Stocking)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The fist six issues of this series (1954-1959) are titled <em>Archie&#8217;s Christmas Stocking<\/em>.\u00a0 Later issues featured other themes and characters, with the Christmas Stocking appearing each year for the Holidays.\u00a0 Here are the covers of the remainder of the first six issues.\u00a0 By the way, according to the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.comics.org\" target=\"_blank\"> Grand Comic Book Database<\/a>, <em>Archie Giant Series Magazine<\/em> was contiuously published until 1992 (332 issues, numbered 1 through 632 &#8211; There are 300 missing numbers, 36-135, 252-451).\u00a0 There was also another <em>Archie&#8217;s Christmas Stocking<\/em> series published by Archie Publications starting in 1993.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1607\" style=\"width: 221px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/goldenagecomics.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/203837.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1607\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1607\" title=\"Archie's Giant Series Magazine #2 (Archie's Christmas Stocking)\" src=\"http:\/\/goldenagecomics.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/203837-211x300.jpg\" alt=\"Archie's Giant Series Magazine #2 (Archie's Christmas Stocking)\" width=\"211\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/goldenagecomics.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/203837-211x300.jpg 211w, http:\/\/goldenagecomics.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/203837-105x150.jpg 105w, http:\/\/goldenagecomics.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/203837.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 211px) 100vw, 211px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1607\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Archie&#39;s Giant Series Magazine #2 (Archie&#39;s Christmas Stocking)<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1608\" style=\"width: 219px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/goldenagecomics.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/203838.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1608\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1608\" title=\"Archie's Giant Series Magazine #3 (Archie's Christmas Stocking)\" src=\"http:\/\/goldenagecomics.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/203838-209x300.jpg\" alt=\"Archie's Giant Series Magazine #3 (Archie's Christmas Stocking)\" width=\"209\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/goldenagecomics.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/203838-209x300.jpg 209w, http:\/\/goldenagecomics.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/203838-104x150.jpg 104w, http:\/\/goldenagecomics.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/203838.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 209px) 100vw, 209px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1608\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Archie&#39;s Giant Series Magazine #3 (Archie&#39;s Christmas Stocking)<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1609\" style=\"width: 217px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/goldenagecomics.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/203839.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1609\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1609\" title=\"203839Archie's Giant Series Magazine #4 (Archie's Christmas Stocking)\" src=\"http:\/\/goldenagecomics.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/203839-207x300.jpg\" alt=\"Archie's Giant Series Magazine #4 (Archie's Christmas Stocking)\" width=\"207\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/goldenagecomics.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/203839-207x300.jpg 207w, http:\/\/goldenagecomics.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/203839-103x150.jpg 103w, http:\/\/goldenagecomics.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/203839.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 207px) 100vw, 207px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1609\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Archie&#39;s Giant Series Magazine #4 (Archie&#39;s Christmas Stocking)<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1610\" style=\"width: 220px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/goldenagecomics.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/203840.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1610\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1610\" title=\"203840Archie's Giant Series Magazine #5 (Archie's Christmas Stocking)\" src=\"http:\/\/goldenagecomics.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/203840-210x300.jpg\" alt=\"Archie's Giant Series Magazine #5 (Archie's Christmas Stocking)\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/goldenagecomics.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/203840-210x300.jpg 210w, http:\/\/goldenagecomics.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/203840-105x150.jpg 105w, http:\/\/goldenagecomics.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/203840.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1610\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Archie&#39;s Giant Series Magazine #5 (Archie&#39;s Christmas Stocking)<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1611\" style=\"width: 217px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/goldenagecomics.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/203841.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1611\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1611\" title=\"Archie's Giant Series Magazine #6 (Archie's Christmas Stocking)\" src=\"http:\/\/goldenagecomics.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/203841-207x300.jpg\" alt=\"Archie's Giant Series Magazine #6 (Archie's Christmas Stocking)\" width=\"207\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/goldenagecomics.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/203841-207x300.jpg 207w, 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