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Issue Details

Issue #959
Published December 1958
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?
Notes Indicia title is "Walt Scott's CHRISTMAS STORIES, No. 959." Code number is W.S.C.S. O.S. #959-5812. Copyright 1951, 1952, 1953, 1956, 1958 by NEA Service, Inc.

Cover Details

Characters The Little People [Old One; Chub; Jink; Cork]; Broon Bear
Genre fantasy
Pencils Walt Scott (painting) (signed)
Inks Walt Scott (painting) (signed)
Colors Walt Scott (painting) (signed)

1 page filler "The Songs of Christmas"

Synopsis The history of various Christmas carols
Genre fact
Pencils Walt Scott
Inks Walt Scott
Letters typeset
Notes Inside front cover; black and white. Panels with typeset text. Partial reprint of the 1951 NEA daily Christmas newspaper strip.
Reprinted from The Songs of Christmas (NEA Service, Inc) 1951.12.03-1951.12.22 (partial)

11 page Walt Scott's Christmas Stories story "The Little People's Christmas"

Characters The Little People [Old One; Wembly; Weesh; Woosh; Loop; Jink; Chub; Cork]; Tar
Synopsis The Little People build toys for Santa. To celebrate the completion of the job, they plan a party for all the forest animals. While going out to spread the word, three of the Little People fall in a hole and have to be rescued.
Genre fantasy
Script Walt Scott
Pencils Walt Scott
Inks Walt Scott
Letters Walt Scott ?
Notes Reprinted from the 1952 NEA Christmas daily newspaper strip. Unknown if the strips have been altered or cut.
Reprinted from The Little People's Christmas (NEA Service, Inc.) 1952.12.01-1952.12.24

10 page story "The Animals' Christmas "

Characters Rupert Raccoon; Freddy Fox; Sniffer Mouse; Wilmot Weasel; Wilma Weasel; Broon Bear
Synopsis In the Valley of the Small Ones, the animals were getting ready for Christmas. Young Freddy Fox has just one thing on his list--a pair of ice skates. But cranky old Wilmot Weasel has the only pair of skates in the valley.
Genre fantasy
Script Walt Scott
Pencils Walt Scott
Inks Walt Scott
Letters Walt Scott ?
Notes Reprinted from the 1956 NEA Christmas daily newspaper strip. Unknown if the strips have been altered or cut.
Reprinted from The Animals' Christmas (NEA Service, Inc.) 1956.12.03-1956.12.24

11 page story "The Little Tree That Talked"

Characters The Little People [Old One; Wembly; Weesh; Woosh; Loop; Jink; Chub; Cork]; Spirit of Christmas; Scraggly
Synopsis Chub finds a little spruce tree that talks. The tree is a little person who had been turned into a tree by an evil old witch many years ago.
Genre fantasy
Script Walt Scott (signed)
Pencils Walt Scott (signed)
Inks Walt Scott (signed)
Letters Walt Scott ?
Notes Reprinted from NEA daily Christmas strip for 1953. Unknown if the reprint is complete or has been altered or cut.
Reprinted from The Little Tree That Talked (NEA Service, Inc.) 1953.11.30-1953.12.24

2 page filler "Silent Night, Holy Night"

Characters Franz Gruber; Fr. Joseph Mohr
Synopsis The story behind the writing of the Christmas carol "Silent Night" in 1818.
Genre fact
Script Walt Scott (signed)
Pencils Walt Scott (signed)
Inks Walt Scott (signed)
Letters typeset
Notes Inside back cover; black and white; continued on back cover in color. Panels with typeset text. Partial reprint of the 1951 NEA daily Christmas newspaper strip.
Reprinted from The Songs of Christmas (NEA Service, Inc) 1951.12.03-1951.12.22 (partial)