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Issue: Four Color #302
Publication Date: November 1950
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Issues: #302 of 1333 Issues (1484 Printings)
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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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): ? (painting)
Inker(s): ? (painting)
Colorist(s): ? (painting)
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Feature(s): Santa Claus Funnies
Character(s): Santa Claus
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Bells of Christmas

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Eugene Field
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: religious
Character(s): Joseph; Mary; Jesus Christ
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: 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).
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No Presents for Christmas

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Santa Claus
Synopsis: Santa loses his toys when they fall out of his bag while traveling in his airborne sleigh.
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Pages: 9
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Santa's Surprise

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Santa Claus
Synopsis: 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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Pages: 10
Disclose Notes: Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
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Color Jolly Santa Claus

Activity  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Character(s): Santa Claus
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: A drawing of Santa Claus to color. Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
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Teddy Bear in Toyland

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic, fantasy
Character(s): Teddy Bear; Tiger Cat
Synopsis: 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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Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Pencils credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
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Santa's First Visit

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Santa Claus
Synopsis: 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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Pages: 12
Disclose Notes: Panels with text underneath. Script, pencils, and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
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Santa's Christmas Presents

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Santa Claus
Synopsis: 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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Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
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O Come, Little Children

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): ?
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: 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).
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Kitten and Christmas Stocking

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Synopsis: A kitten gets more than it bargained for when it snags a loose thread on a Christmas stocking.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover. Pantomime story. Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).

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