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Issue Details

Issue #[1 1950]
Published [December] 1950
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 52
Editing Whitney Ellsworth (credited); Lawrence Nadle? (actual)
Notes Credits are from Jerry Bails' Who's Who site. Indicia: "RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER. Copyright 1950, by Robert L. May. Published by National Comics Publications, Inc., 480 Lexington Ave., New York 17, N. Y., by arrangement with Maxton Publishers, Inc. Whitney Ellsworth, Editor. Except for those who have authorized use of their names, the stories, characters and incidents mentioned in this book are entirely imaginary and fictitious, and no identification with actual persons, living or dead, is intended or should be inferred. Printed in U.S.A."

Cover Details

Characters Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer; Santa Claus; Jack; Judy
Genre Children; Funny Animals
Pencils Rube Grossman?
Inks Rube Grossman?
Notes No number or year on the cover.

42 page Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer story "Rudolph Gets a Swelled Head"

Characters Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (intro); Santa Claus; Professor Orville Owl (intro); Mrs. Wildgoose (intro); Winky (intro); Blinky (intro); Jack; Judy; J. Baddy Bear (intro); Grover Groundhog (intro); Caspar the Postman; Alfred
Genre Children; Funny Animals
Script Sy Reit?
Pencils Rube Grossman?
Inks Rube Grossman?
Notes The activity pages (which are indexed separately) are numbered as part of the story pages. The title is made up by the indexer. First line in the story: "Look, Alfred! There goes Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer!"

6 page Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer activity "Activities"

Characters Jack; Judy; Santa Claus; Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer; Winky; Blinky; Caspar the Postman; J. Baddy Bear; Grover Groundhog; Professor Orville Owl
Genre Children; Funny Animals
Pencils Rube Grossman?
Inks Rube Grossman?
Notes Six activities: a maze page, an optical illusion page, a two-page game, a dot-drawing page, and a penny game page. Appear in various places in this issue.

2 page Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "Cast of Characters"

Characters Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer; Santa Claus; Jack; Judy; Grover Groundhog; Blinky; Winky; J. Baddy Bear; Caspar the Postman; Professor Orville Owl; Mrs. Wildgoose
Pencils Rube Grossman?
Inks Rube Grossman?
Notes This is one unique page that is both the inside front cover and flipped as the inside back cover.

1 page Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer illustration "Poster"

Characters Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
Genre Children; Funny Animals
Pencils Rube Grossman?
Inks Rube Grossman?
Notes Poster on the back cover.