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Issue Details

Issue #1274
Published December 1961
Cover Price 0.15 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?
Notes Indicia title is "SANTA CLAUS FUNNIES, No. 1274." Code number is S.C.F.O.S. #1274-6112. Copyright 1961 by Western Printing & Lithographing Co.

Cover Details

Characters Santa Claus
Pencils ? (Painting)
Inks ? (painting)
Colors ? (painting)
Notes Indicia title is "SANTA CLAUS FUNNIES, No. 1274." Code number is S.C.F.O.S. #1274-6112. Copyright 1961 by Western Printing & Lithographing Co.

2 page filler "Christmas Eve"

Characters Santa Claus
Synopsis A poem about Santa and his Christmas Eve trip.
Genre fantasy
Pencils Mel Crawford ?
Letters typeset
Notes Inside front cover and inside back cover; black and white. Typeset text with illustrations. Pencils credit for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)

8 page story "Christmas Eve Space Trip"

Characters Santa Claus
Synopsis Two brothers fly a popcorn-fueled rocket to the Moon, where they find that Santa doesn't visit the moon people.
Genre fantasy; science fiction
Pencils Mel Crawford
Inks Mel Crawford
Notes Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)

6 page story "The Unsuitable Suit"

Characters Santa Claus; Mrs. Claus
Synopsis Buttons the elf brings Santa a new, updated suit to replace his old frayed one. However, no one recognizes him in his new clothes.
Genre fantasy

5 page story "The Guiding Gleam"

Synopsis A lighthouse keeper rescues a puppy from a storm and gives it to his children as Christmas present.
Genre fantasy
Script Gaylord Du Bois
Pencils Mel Crawford
Inks Mel Crawford
Notes Script submitted on March 2, 1961. Script credit provided by David Porta from "Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books Sorted by Title / compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott" (1985). Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)

7 page story "Santa's Return Trip"

Characters Santa Claus
Synopsis Scamper the elf falls asleep in a box in Santa's workshop. The box is gift-wrapped and Santa delivers it. When he returns, Santa has one doll left over and has to return to a girl's house to trade the doll for Scamper.
Genre fantasy
Script John Stanley
Pencils Irving Tripp
Inks Irving Tripp
Notes Script credit by Ed Buchman (e-mail, August 5, 2008). Pencils and inks credit from Steven Rowe (GCD-main list, August 3, 2008) and Ed Buchman (e-mail, August 5, 2008).

7 page story "Woodland Christmas"

Characters Santa Claus
Synopsis Some food and gifts fall out of Santa's sleigh when it hits rough weather over a forest. The goods help give a hungry hunter and forest creatures a merry Christmas.
Genre fantasy
Script Gaylord Du Bois
Pencils Mel Crawford
Inks Mel Crawford
Notes Script submitted as "What the Pine Tree Saw" on February 28, 1961. Script credit provided by David Porta from "Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books Sorted by Title / compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott" (1985). Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)

1 page Arnold, Schwinn & Company advertisement "Schwinn 5-Speed Corvette"

Pencils ? (painting)
Inks ? (painting)
Colors ? (painting)
Letters typeset
Notes Back cover. Ad for Schwinn Bicycles. Featured is Schwinn 5-Speed Corvette model for $79.95. Arnold, Schwinn & Co., Chicago, Ill.