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Issue: Four Color #302
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Title: Santa Claus Funnies
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagDell
Brand: A Dell ComicView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Dell Publishing Co.
On Sale Date: 10/13/1950
Volume: none
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 10 (8 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
Disclose Notes: Indicia title is "SANTA CLAUS FUNNIES, No. 302." Code number is S.C.F.O.S. #302-5011. Copyright 1950 by Western Printing & Lithographing Co.
The on sale date is the copyright date from Catalog of Copyright Entries 1950 Pamphlets, Serials Etc. Jan-Dec 3D Ser Vol 4 Pt 1B by Library of Congress. Copyright Office. Page 624
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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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Cover, Front
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Adult Image
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
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Subject Matter
fantasy
Santa Claus Funnies
Santa Claus
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Bells of Christmas

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Eugene Field
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typeset
Subject Matter
religious
Joseph; Mary; Jesus Christ
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Inside front cover; black, white, and red. Uncredited Christmas poem by Eugene Field, originally entitled "Song" in "The Poems of Eugene Field" (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1924). Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
No Presents for Christmas

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
fantasy
Santa Claus
Santa loses his toys when they fall out of his bag while traveling in his airborne sleigh.
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9
Santa's Surprise

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
fantasy
Santa Claus
A 19th century circus stops near a small village in the mountains on Christmas Eve. They are the last ones on Santa's list and when he stops to deliver the presents, he is mistaken for a prowler. Amused, Santa decides to deliver the presents as part of the circus show.
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Miscellaneous
10
Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
Color Jolly Santa Claus

Activity  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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typeset
Subject Matter
Santa Claus
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Miscellaneous
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A drawing of Santa Claus to color. Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
Teddy Bear in Toyland

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
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Subject Matter
anthropomorphic, fantasy
Teddy Bear; Tiger Cat
Teddy Bear wants to be chosen as one of Santa's gifts to children, but isn't. Tiger Cat is chosen, but he doesn't want to go with Santa and plots with others to hijack the train and escape from Toyland.
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Miscellaneous
8
Pencils credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
Santa's First Visit

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
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Subject Matter
fantasy
Santa Claus
Ole Young sends his young son off to the North Pole to tell Santa Claus that there are settlers in America. With help from some friendly Indians and a magic arrow, Peter and Little White Owl, an Indian girl, go to meet Santa, right before as he is readying to leave on his Christmas trip.
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Miscellaneous
12
Panels with text underneath. Script, pencils, and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
Santa's Christmas Presents

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
fantasy
Santa Claus
Santa decides to deliver his presents with an airplane, but it crashes. He then tries using a helicopter, but that doesn't work either. Santa's reindeer find Santa and he finishes his trip in traditional fashion.
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Miscellaneous
8
Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
O Come, Little Children

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Miscellaneous
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Inside back cover; black, white, and red. Lyrics to a Christmas carol with five illustrations. Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
Kitten and Christmas Stocking

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
humorous
A kitten gets more than it bargained for when it snags a loose thread on a Christmas stocking.
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Back cover. Pantomime story. Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).

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