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Issue Details

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.

Cover Details - "A Letter to Santa"

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.

1 page filler "Oh, it's fun to be traveling at Christmastime..."

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.

21 page story "A Letter to Santa"

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]

6 page text story "Santa's Mistake"

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.

2 page filler "At Christmastime"

Characters Santa Claus (cameo)
Synopsis Waiting for Santa in medieval times.
Genre period
Pencils Morris Gollub ?
Inks Morris Gollub ?
Notes Illustrations with text underneath.

11 page story "The Great Three-Flavored Blizzard"

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

2 page activity "Let's Make Puppets"

Notes How to make puppets out of cardboard tubes, cotton batting, and papier mache. Also how to make a stage.

6 page story "A Christmas Play in Three Acts with Two Scenes"

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.

1 page story "The Christmas Mouse"

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.

1 page illustration "And Now-Merry Christmas To All!"

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.