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Issue: Four Color #259
Publication Date: December 1949
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Issues: #259 of 1333 Issues (1484 Printings)
Title: Santa and the Angel
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagDell
Brand: A Dell ComicView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: 11/01/1949
Volume: none
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 6 (2 stories, 2 covers)
Editor(s): ?
Disclose Notes: Indicia title is "SANTA AND THE ANGEL, No. 259." Code number is S+A O.S. #259-4912.
1 November 1949 on-sale date as per Catalog of Copyright Entries, 1949 Pamphlets, page 513.
Copyright 1946 by Oskar LeBeck; copyright 1 November 1949 by Western Printing & Lithographing Co.
This is a flip book. The second story starts on the back cover and reads toward the middle. (Upside-down from the first story.)
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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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Santa and the Angel

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Santa Claus; Angel
Reprinting
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
Oskar LeBeck's name is misspelled "Oscar" on the cover.
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[untitled]

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
First Line: Angels Were Singing...
Synopsis: Introduction to Santa and the Angel.
Reprinting
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover; black and white. Poem and illustrations.
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Santa and the Angel

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): The little Angel; Santa Claus
Synopsis: A little angel drifts to Earth on a cloud and lands in a forest. The forest animals find him and take him to a woodchopper's cabin at the edge of the forest. They get there just as Santa arrives at the cabin and Santa takes the angel back to heaven.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagFour Color #128 published December 1946
was Santa and the Angel [Story on Interior Page(s)]heavily edited from 26 pages to 25; heavily edited, indicia title of original is "SANTA CLAUS FUNNIES"
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 25
Disclose Notes: Text story with three illustrations on each page.
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Santa at the Zoo

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Santa Claus
Synopsis: The animals at the zoo are surprised when Santa Claus pays them a visit.
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 23
Disclose Notes: Story starts on the last interior page, upside down to the front cover, and reads toward the middle of the issue. Text story with half-art, half-text on each page with illustrations of varying sizes.
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[untitled]

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Santa at the Zoo
First Line: The lion complained...
Synopsis: Introduction to Santa at the Zoo.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover; black and white. Illustration with brief text. Upside-down from front cover.
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Santa at the Zoo

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Santa Claus
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover. Illustration serving as cover to second flip-book story, upside-down in relation to front cover.
Oskar LeBeck's name is misspelled "Oscar" on the cover.

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