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Issue Details

Issue #128
Published 1946
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 52
Editing ?
Notes Indicia title is "SANTA CLAUS FUNNIES, No. 128". No code number. Copyright 1946 by Oskar Lebeck.

Cover Details - "Santa Claus Funnies"

Characters Santa Claus
Pencils Morris Gollub ?
Inks Morris Gollub ?
Notes Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).

1 page [Santa Claus] story "Elf in Jack-in-Box"

Characters Santa Claus
Synopsis Santa mistakenly puts an elf in a jack-in-the-box.
Genre fantasy
Pencils Dan Noonan ?
Inks Dan Noonan ?
Notes Inside front cover; black, white, and red; pantomime story. Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)

26 page story "Santa and the Angel"

Characters Santa Claus; Santa's Reindeer (Donner; Dasher; Prancer; Vixen; Comet; Cupid; Dancer; Blitzen) (cameo)
Synopsis A group of angel babies are busy polishing the stars in preparation for Christmas. The littlest one becomes tired and falls asleep on a cloud that slowly drifts to Earth and lands in the middle of a snow-covered forest. The angel baby, who is naked, is cold and frightened and starts to cry. This attracts the animals of the forest who huddle around him to keep him warm. The animals decide to take him to the cabin of a woodchopper and his wife, who live at the edge of the forest. It is Christmas Eve and just as the animals reach the house, Santa and his reindeer arrive. The forest animals scatter, but it turns out that Santa knows who the angel is, because "Everybody in heaven has been looking for you." After climbing down the chimney and giving the woodchopper's family its gifts, Santa takes the little angel back to Heaven as the forest animals watch in wonder.
Genre fantasy
Script Oskar Lebeck
Pencils Morris Gollub
Inks Morris Gollub
Notes The first verse of the Christmas hymn "Silent Night" is part of the last page of the story. Forest animals are realistically drawn. Script, pencils, and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007). Panels with text beneath them, no panel borders.
Reprinted in Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #290.

4 page activity "Christ is Born: A Christmas Play"

Synopsis Short play of the Nativity story.
Pencils Dan Noonan
Inks Dan Noonan
Notes Text and illustrations.

9 page story "To Santa's Rescue"

Characters Santa Claus; Tom Felding
Synopsis Tom Felding drives the "Dover Mail" stagecoach from London in a snowstorm on Christmas Eve. Along the way he is flagged down by Santa Claus, whose sled has a broken runner. Tom and six passengers from the stagecoach help Santa fix the sled runner and be on his way.
Genre fantasy
Script Dan Noonan (signed)
Pencils Dan Noonan (signed)
Inks Dan Noonan (signed)
Notes Illustrations with text beneath them. Text is written in rhyme.

2 page filler "Santa's Reindeer"

Characters Santa Claus; Donner; Dasher; Prancer; Vixen; Comet; Cupid; Dancer; Blitzen
Synopsis While waiting for Santa to make a delivery, one of his reindeer talks through a window to a child in his bed.
Genre fantasy
Pencils Dan Noonan
Inks Dan Noonan
Notes Poem with illustrations. Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)

7 page [Santa Claus] story "A Mouse in the House"

Characters Santa Claus
Synopsis Returning from his night's work, Santa finds a mouse in his beard while getting ready for bed. He lets the mouse stay for the evening.
Genre fantasy
Script Walt Kelly
Pencils Walt Kelly
Inks Walt Kelly

1 page activity "Santa's torn sack"

Characters Santa Claus
Synopsis Santa's bag has torn and the toys have spilled. The reader is to find the toys hidden in the illustration and list them.
Pencils Dan Noonan ?
Inks Dan Noonan ?
Letters typeset
Notes Inside back cover; black, white, and red.

1 page filler "O Come, Little Children"

Pencils Morris Gollub ?
Inks Morris Gollub ?
Notes Back cover. Poem with illustrations of angel babies.