I love comic books. I collected them for many years and I love to look at old comic covers. You can find comic book covers that conform to almost any theme. I posted several Frankenstein monster comic book covers during AWESOME-tober-fest this year. For this holiday article, I thought it would be fun to look at some comic book covers that feature the lovable image of St Nick. He’s been showing up in some form or another on comic books since the ’30s and ’40s.
Santa has made many appearances in comics, this week I’ll look at some images of jolly old Saint Nick getting some help from superheroes to complete his rounds. Next week I’ll have a different Santa comic book theme. Now, let’s see Santa get some help from some of our favorite heroes.
Action Comics #105 – Here’s Superman using his super strength to help Santa get his plump midsection down a chimney. You can imagine a thought bubble above Superman saying, “Maybe you should hit the treadmill, Santa. I have murderers and rapists to catch.”
Batman #27 – Up above in the first comic cover we see Superman stop his normal duties to help Santa deliver toys. Here we see Batman laugh and what looks like smack Santa on the back while he and Robin try to carry a gi-normous bag of childrens’ toys. Batman is a douche, dude.
Well, December is upon us. The year is almost over. So, even though stores started putting up Christmas decorations 2 days before Thanksgiving, I waited until December 1 to really start thinking about Christmas. A few weeks ago I decided to read nothing but Christmas books through the end of the year. I thought it might help “jump start” myself into Kris Kringle mode. I picked my festive list of books first before I started reading because I wanted to be prepared and not caught off guard by finishing a few and then having to scramble to find some more. Many are older classics that I never really got around to reading in the first place and one is one I re-read because it was short and I enjoyed it.
It’s Christmas time! I love Christmas time. The decorations, the holiday-only items in the stores and toys. Can’t have Christmas without kick-ass toys. However, I especially love flipping through the TV channels during the holiday season. All of the TV logos are juiced up for the holidays and our old Christmas Special favorites are dusted off and traipsed out in front of us like a former beauty queen, well past her prime. There are plenty to catch. Endless remakes of A Christmas Carol, TV shows centering their activities around Christmas parties, beloved cartoon characters meeting Santa Claus and learning that “to give is better than to receive”. You’ve seen them, you know them. But the undisputed king of television holiday specials has got to be the studios of Rankin-Bass. Rankin-Bass consistently made the most treasured and beloved holiday specials of all time. Their track record is undeniable. Their influence on the holiday is unmistakable. Let’s take a look back at the animation studios of Rankin-Bass and some of their most famous specials; most you’ve no doubt seen dozens of times, but many you probably didn’t realize they created.
Cavalcade of Awesome 