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Issue: Four Color #254

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Publication Date: November 1949

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Issues: #254 of 1333 Issues (1484 Printings)

Title: Santa Claus Funnies

Variant: unnamed

Rating:

Publisher: Flag

Dell

Brand: A Dell Comic

Indicia Publisher: Dell Publishing Co.

On Sale Date: 10/11/1949

Volume: none

Pages: 52

ISBN: none

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $0.10 USD

Indicia Frequency: none

Content Items: 11 (8 stories, 1 cover)

Editor(s): ?

Notes: Indicia title is "SANTA CLAUS FUNNIES, No. 254." Code number is S.C.F.O.S. #256-4911. (Note that code number does not match issue number.) Copyright 1949 by Western Printing & Lithographing Co. On-sale date is publication date in Catalog of Copyright Entries, 1949 Pamphlets, page 660.

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Format

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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1 Content Item
- Santa's First Helper [Story on Interior Page(s)]1

reprinted as a Content Item in another Issue.

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Cover, Front

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Content Items (11 total)

[untitled]

Illustration on Cover, Front

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Colorist(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: fantasy

Feature(s): Santa Claus Funnies

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Pages: 1

Christmas in the Heart

Text Story on Interior Page(s)

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Genres: drama

Synopsis: Christmas at the rich, the poor, and the city and what unites it all.

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Pages: 1

Notes: Inside front cover; black and white. Text and illustrations. Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007). A Christmas poem by an unknown poet (this is not the poem of the same name by Paul Laurence Dunbar.)

Santa's First Helper

Story on Interior Page(s)

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Subject Matter

Genres: fantasy

Character(s): Puggy Pink (dwarf); Reddy Fox; Hubert (dog); Mary Contrary

Synopsis: Puggy Pink, a dwarf, volunteers to be Santa's first helper in making toys. Santa leaves him at a little girl's house to be a temporary fill-in for the doll that isn't ready at Christmas.

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In Content Item: Flag

Walt Kelly's Santa Claus Adventures #1 published December 1990
as Santa's First Helper [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Pages: 12

A Visit from Saint Nicholas

Story on Interior Page(s)

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Genres: fantasy

Character(s): Saint Nicholas [Santa Claus]

Synopsis: A man is awoken by the arrival of Saint Nicholas.

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Pages: 5

Notes: Illustrated version of the 1823 poem by Clement Clarke Moore, sometimes titled "The Night Before Christmas." Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).

The Land Without Christmas

Story on Interior Page(s)

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Subject Matter

Genres: fantasy

Character(s): Brainy; Dasher; Dancer; King Pepy; Snoopy

Synopsis: Santa uses a rocket to take a test trip to a distant star and a land ruled by the bad-humored King Pepy. The inhabitants knew of Santa but the land had been too far away for Santa to visit previously. When Santa doesn't have any presents for them, they become angry and Santa is forced to hitch a ride home on a shooting star.

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Pages: 6

Notes: Script, pencils, and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).

Visit Santa Game

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Synopsis: A game to advance on a trip to see Santa.

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Pages: 2

Santa Claus and Timothy's Horse

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Genres: fantasy

Character(s): Timothy Tucker; Sparkie (elf); Flash (elf); Dash (elf); Joe; Rocky; Donner; Blitzen; Dasher; Prancer

Synopsis: Selfish Timothy Tucker redeems himself in Santa's eyes by giving away his prized (but broken) rocking horse to firemen who are repairing toys to give as Christmas gifts.

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Pages: 10

Baby Reindeer Cut-Out

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Pages: 1

Notes: A drawing of a reindeer to cut-out and fold into a standing figure.

Albert and Pogo's Christmas

Story on Interior Page(s)

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Feature(s): Albert and Pogo

Character(s): Pogo; Albert; Mrs. Rackety Coon; Dee-licious; Churchy La Femme (cameo); Howland Owl (cameo)

Synopsis: Albert dresses up to play Santa Claus for the swamp's children.

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Pages: 12

Long, Long Ago

Text Story on Interior Page(s)

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Genres: religious

Character(s): Joseph; Mary

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Pages: 1

Notes: Inside back cover; black and white. Text and illustrations. A Christmas carol by an unknown writer.

Christmas Carol [As Joseph Was A-Walking]

Text Story on Interior Page(s)

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Letterer(s): typeset

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Character(s): Joseph; Mary

Synopsis: The story of Christ's birth in a stable.

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Pages: 1

Notes: Back cover; text and illustrations. An abridged version of the traditional English Christmas carol "As Joseph Was A-Waukin'" as printed in The Home Book of Verse, Volume 1 (New York, Henry Holt and Company, 1912.) One stanza is omitted and the spelling is slightly modified.