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Issue Details

Issue #756
Published December 1956
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?
Notes Indicia title is "SANTA CLAUS FUNNIES, No. 756." Code number is S.C.O.F. #756-5612. (It is O.F., not O.S.) Copyright 1956 by Western Printing & Lithographing Co. Twelfth of 17 Santa Claus Funnies Four Colors.

Cover Details

Characters Santa Claus
Genre fantasy
Pencils ? (painting)
Inks ? (painting)
Colors ? (painting)

1 page activity "Maze"

Characters Santa Claus
Synopsis Santa must find his way through a maze to pick up his bag of toys and then find a way to get them to the Christmas tree.
Pencils Dan Gormley
Inks Dan Gormley
Letters typeset
Notes Inside front cover; black and white. Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)

7 page Santa Claus story "Mr. Bear's Reward"

Characters Santa Claus; Mrs. Claus
Synopsis When Santa's beard is accidentally burned off, the animals go to the polar bear to have him donate some of his white fur to make a replacement beard.
Genre fantasy
Pencils Mel Crawford
Inks Mel Crawford
Notes Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)

6 page Santa Claus story "The Christmas Cricket"

Characters Santa Claus
Synopsis A cricket living in Mr. Foote's house leaves because he feels he's not wanted. He takes up residence in a nearby home and meets Santa Claus. Santa tells the cricket he'll take him along to his next stop. That happens to be Mr. Foote's house and the cricket decides to move back in when he finds that Mr. Foote has missed him.
Genre fantasy
Pencils Mel Crawford
Inks Mel Crawford
Letters Ben Oda
Notes Pencils, inks, and letters credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)

5 page Santa Claus story "The Music Box"

Characters Santa Claus
Synopsis An old man tells his grandson about Santa bringing him the music box he wanted when he was a boy. Later Santa comes to the house and brings the present the young boy wanted most--a portable radio. The man decides that the radio is a "modern music box" and that things really don't change very much.
Genre fantasy
Pencils Mel Crawford
Inks Mel Crawford
Letters Ben Oda
Notes Pencils, inks, and letters credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)

7 page Santa Claus story "Christmas In the Zoo"

Characters Santa Claus
Synopsis The animals at the zoo are sad because everyone is too busy with Christmas activities to come visit them. The monkeys get out of the their cage and try to cheer up the rest of the animals.
Genre fantasy
Pencils Mel Crawford
Inks Mel Crawford
Letters Ben Oda
Notes Pencils, inks, and letters credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)

6 page Santa Claus story "The Three Little Pigs and the Big Bad Santa"

Characters Three Little Pigs (not Disney); Big Bad Wolf (not Disney); Santa Claus
Synopsis The Big Bad Wolf pretends to be Santa in order to get into the Three Pigs' brick house.
Genre fantasy
Pencils Mel Crawford
Inks Mel Crawford
Letters Ben Oda
Notes Pencils, inks, and letters credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)

Half page The Littlest Snowman promo (ad from the publisher) "For all the excitement of a white Christmas..."

Characters The Littlest Snowman
Genre fantasy
Letters typeset
Notes Promo for The Littlest Snowman Four Color #755 (December 1956). Line-drawn version of painted cover of the comic is depicted.

1 page activity "Crossword Puzzle"

Letters typeset
Notes Inside back cover; black and white. Illustration with simple crossword puzzle as part of the drawing. Dell's "A Pledge to Parents" is also part of the page.

1 page The Bright Twins story "Stocking Cut-Ups"

Characters The Bright Twins
Synopsis The twins sneak downstairs on Christmas Eve to cut the toes out of their stockings so they'll get more presents.
Genre children
Pencils Dan Gormley ?
Inks Dan Gormley ?
Notes Back cover; pantomime story. Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)