Issue | #175 |
Published | December 1947 |
Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
Pages | 52 |
Editing | ? |
Notes | Indicia title is "SANTA CLAUS FUNNIES, No. 175." Code number is S.C.F. #175-4712. Copyright 1947 by Oskar LeBeck. |
Characters | Santa Claus; Trundle; Matilda Doll; Teddy Bear; Blackie (dog); Blitzen (reindeer) |
Genre | fantasy |
Pencils | Morris Gollub ? (painting) |
Inks | Morris Gollub ? (painting) |
Colors | Morris Gollub ? (painting) |
Notes | Cover scene is from first interior story. |
Synopsis | Mice travel in a stagecoach pulled by rabbits in order to get home for Christmas. |
Genre | funny animals |
Notes | Inside front cover; black, red, and white. |
Characters | Santa Claus; Trundle; Matilda Doll; Teddy Bear; Blackie (dog); Blitzen (reindeer) |
Synopsis | Santa receives a letter from Teddy Bear saying that the children to which Santa gave him, Matilda Doll, and Blackie the pup last Christmas have mistreated them. Santa sends Trundle the gnome on Blitzen to retrieve the three. He takes Blackie to an animal hospital and then takes the toys to a doll clinic where they are repaired and given to children at a hospital for convalescent children. The dog had been nursed back to health and given to the hospital, too. The three all go home with a boy and girl and are visited by Santa at the next Christmas. |
Genre | fantasy |
Script | Oskar Lebeck [as O. Lebeck] |
Pencils | Morris Gollub [as M. Gollub] |
Inks | Morris Gollub [as M. Gollub] |
Characters | Santa Claus; Snoozle |
Synopsis | Snoozle the elf falls asleep in a doll box and gets taken along on Santa's Christmas trip. |
Genre | fantasy |
Pencils | Arthur E. Jameson ? |
Inks | Arthur E. Jameson ? |
Letters | typeset |
Notes | Text story with large illustration surrounding the text on each page. |
Characters | Santa Claus (cameo) |
Synopsis | Waiting for Santa in medieval times. |
Genre | period |
Pencils | Morris Gollub ? |
Inks | Morris Gollub ? |
Notes | Illustrations with text underneath. |
Characters | Santa Claus; Easter Bunny; Fuzzychin; Twinkle the elf; the Weatherman |
Synopsis | Fuzzychin and the Easter Bunny go to see Santa. They find that Twinkle the elf, the messenger Santa sent to the weatherman to find out why there is no snow, has not returned. The pair go to the weatherman's house and find that Twinkle and the weatherman are trying to repair the "Season Machine," which is stuck on "Summer." The season machine gets fixed but the next problem is that the snow machine is out of raw materials. Santa and the elves bring substitutes that produce snow made of ice cream. |
Genre | fantasy |
Script | Walt Kelly |
Pencils | Walt Kelly |
Inks | Walt Kelly |
Notes | How to make puppets out of cardboard tubes, cotton batting, and papier mache. Also how to make a stage. |
Characters | Santa Claus |
Synopsis | Santa rescues two children from their wicked stepmother. |
Pencils | Morris Gollub ? |
Inks | Morris Gollub ? |
Notes | The play is set up to use the puppets from the preceding sequence. |
Characters | Santa Claus |
Synopsis | Santa leaves a mouse some cheese for a present. |
Pencils | Morris Gollub ? |
Inks | Morris Gollub ? |
Notes | Inside back cover; black, red, and white; pantomime story. |
Characters | Santa Claus |
Synopsis | Santa holding a poster with the title on it. |
Pencils | Morris Gollub ? (painting) |
Inks | Morris Gollub ? (painting) |
Colors | Morris Gollub ? (painting) |
Notes | Back cover. |