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Issue Details

Issue #259
Published December 1949
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 52
Editing ?
Notes Indicia title is "SANTA AND THE ANGEL, No. 259." Code number is S+A O.S. #259-4912. Copyright 1946 by Oskar LeBeck; copyright 1949 by Western Printing & Lithographing Co. This is a flip book. The second story starts on the back cover and reads toward the middle. (Upside-down from the first story.)

Cover Details - "Santa and the Angel"

Characters Santa Claus; Angel
Genre fantasy
Pencils Morris Gollub
Inks Morris Gollub
Letters typeset
Notes Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).

1 page Santa and the Angel foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "Angels Were Singing..."

Synopsis Introduction to Santa and the Angel.
Genre fantasy
Script Oskar LeBeck ?
Pencils Morris Gollub ?
Inks Morris Gollub ?
Notes Inside front cover; black and white. Poem and illustrations.

25 page text story "Santa and the Angel"

Characters The little Angel; Santa Claus
Synopsis A little angel drifts to Earth on a cloud and lands in a forest. The forest animals find him and take him to a woodchopper's cabin at the edge of the forest. They get there just as Santa arrives at the cabin and Santa takes the angel back to heaven.
Genre fantasy
Script Oskar LeBeck (credited)
Pencils Morris Gollub [as M. Gollub] (credited)
Inks Morris Gollub [as M. Gollub] (credited)
Letters typest
Notes Text story with three illustrations on each page.

23 page text story "Santa at the Zoo"

Characters Santa Claus
Synopsis The animals at the zoo are surprised when Santa Claus pays them a visit.
Genre fantasy
Script Oskar Lebeck (credited)
Pencils Tony Rivera (credited)
Inks Tony Rivera (credited)
Letters typeset
Notes Story starts on the last interior page, upside down to the front cover, and reads toward the middle of the issue. Text story with half-art, half-text on each page with illustrations of varying sizes.

1 page Santa at the Zoo foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "The lion complained..."

Synopsis Introduction to Santa at the Zoo.
Script Oskar Lebeck ?
Pencils Tony Rivera
Inks Tony Rivera
Letters typeset
Notes Inside back cover; black and white. Illustration with brief text. Upside-down from front cover.

1 page illustration "Santa at the Zoo"

Pencils Tony Rivera
Inks Tony Rivera
Notes Back cover. Illustration serving as cover to second flip-book story, upside-down in relation to front cover.