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Issue: Four Color #175
Publication Date: December 1947
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Issues: #175 of 1333 Issues (1484 Printings)
Title: Santa Claus Funnies
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagDell
Brand: A Dell Magazine [circle]View Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: 10/28/1947
Volume: none
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 10 (7 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
Disclose Notes: Indicia title is "SANTA CLAUS FUNNIES, No. 175." Code number is S.C.F. #175-4712. Copyright 1947 by Oskar LeBeck.

On sale date is date of publication per Catalog of Copyright Entries, 1947 Pamphlets, page 444.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age U.S.; standard Silver Age U.S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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A Letter to Santa

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Feature(s): Santa Claus Funnies
Character(s): Santa Claus; Trundle; Matilda Doll; Teddy Bear; Blackie (dog); Blitzen (reindeer)
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Cover scene is from first interior story.
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[untitled]

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Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
First Line: Oh, it's fun to be traveling at Christmas...
Synopsis: Mice travel in a stagecoach pulled by rabbits in order to get home for Christmas.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover; black, red, and white.
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A Letter to Santa

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Santa Claus; Trundle; Matilda Doll; Teddy Bear; Blackie (dog); Blitzen (reindeer)
Synopsis: Santa receives a letter from Teddy Bear saying that the children to which Santa gave him, Matilda Doll, and Blackie the pup last Christmas have mistreated them. Santa sends Trundle the gnome on Blitzen to retrieve the three. He takes Blackie to an animal hospital and then takes the toys to a doll clinic where they are repaired and given to children at a hospital for convalescent children. The dog had been nursed back to health and given to the hospital, too. The three all go home with a boy and girl and are visited by Santa at the next Christmas.
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Pages: 21
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Santa's Mistake

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Santa Claus; Snoozle
Synopsis: Snoozle the elf falls asleep in a doll box and gets taken along on Santa's Christmas trip.
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Text story with large illustration surrounding the text on each page.
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At Christmas Time

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: historical
Character(s): Santa Claus (cameo)
Synopsis: Waiting for Santa in medieval times.
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Illustrations with text underneath.
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The Great Three-Flavored Blizzard

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Santa Claus; Easter Bunny; Fuzzychin; Twinkle the elf; the Weatherman; Moe
Synopsis: Fuzzychin and the Easter Bunny go to see Santa. They find that Twinkle the elf, the messenger Santa sent to the weatherman to find out why there is no snow, has not returned. The pair go to the weatherman's house and find that Twinkle and the weatherman are trying to repair the "Season Machine," which is stuck on "Summer." The season machine gets fixed but the next problem is that the snow machine is out of raw materials. Santa and the elves bring substitutes that produce snow made of ice cream.
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Pages: 11
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Let's Make Puppets

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Letterer(s): ?
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: How to make puppets out of cardboard tubes, cotton batting, and papier mache. Also how to make a stage.
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A Christmas Play in Three Acts with Two Scenes

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Character(s): Santa Claus; Tiny Tinkle; Kathrina; William
Synopsis: Santa rescues two children from their wicked stepmother.
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: The play is set up to use the puppets from the preceding sequence.
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The Christmas Mouse

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Santa Claus
Synopsis: Santa leaves a mouse some cheese for a present.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover; black, red, and white; pantomime story.
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And Now-Merry Christmas To All!

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Character(s): Santa Claus
Synopsis: Santa holding a poster with the title on it.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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