Issue | #196 |
Published | January 1972 |
Cover Price | 0.50 USD |
Pages | 84 |
Editing | Richard Goldwater |
Notes | A "double giant" issue running 84 pages (rather than the usual 52 of "giant" issues at this time). |
Characters | Sabrina; Aunt Hilda; Cousin Ambrose; Aunt Zelda |
Genre | teen; humor; fantasy |
Pencils | Dan DeCarlo |
Inks | Rudy Lapick |
Colors | Barry Grossman |
Letters | Bill Yoshida |
Characters | Sabrina; Aunt Hilda; Santa Claus |
Synopsis | After Aunt Hilda tells her that Santa Claus isn't real, Sabrina sets off around the world in search of Santa. When she arrives at the North Pole, she meets the real Santa Claus, whose workshop has shut down due to the world's "lack of faith." |
Genre | teen; humor; fantasy |
Script | Al Hartley |
Pencils | Al Hartley |
Inks | Joe Sinnott |
Colors | Barry Grossman |
Letters | Bill Yoshida |
Notes | One of many examples of Al Hartley working religious messages into his mainstream comics stories. |
Characters | Sabrina; Jughead Jones |
Synopsis | Sabrina offers tips on how to wrap presents in a personalized way. |
Genre | teen; humor; fantasy |
Script | Al Hartley |
Pencils | Al Hartley |
Inks | Joe Sinnott |
Colors | Barry Grossman |
Letters | Bill Yoshida |
Characters | Li'l Jinx; Hap Holliday |
Genre | children; humor |
Script | Joe Edwards |
Pencils | Joe Edwards |
Inks | Joe Edwards |
Letters | Joe Edwards |
Characters | Sabrina; Hot Dog; Ethel Muggs; Reggie Mantle; Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Pop Tate |
Synopsis | Sabrina turns Hot Dog into a human: a long-haired hippie wearing peace symbols. Ethel promptly falls in love with him. |
Genre | teen; humor; fantasy |
Script | Al Hartley |
Pencils | Al Hartley |
Inks | Joe Sinnott |
Colors | Barry Grossman |
Letters | Bill Yoshida |
Characters | Aunt Hilda |
Genre | teen; humor; fantasy |
Script | Al Hartley |
Pencils | Al Hartley |
Inks | Joe Sinnott |
Colors | Barry Grossman |
Letters | Bill Yoshida |
Characters | Sabrina; Aunt Hilda; Della; Harvey; Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Jughead Jones |
Synopsis | After Della and Aunt Hilda read her the riot act over getting the goody-goody Christmas spirit, Sabrina resolves to do her duty as a witch and resist doing good deeds for people at Christmas. But when she's taken hostage by two bank robbers, she sees the opportunity to do good by doing evil. |
Genre | teen; humor; fantasy |
Script | Frank Doyle |
Pencils | Stan Goldberg |
Inks | Joe Sinnott |
Colors | Barry Grossman |
Letters | Bill Yoshida |
Characters | Sabrina; Veronica Lodge; Mr. Lodge; Moose Mason; Reggie Mantle; Hot Dog; Archie Andrews; Waldo Weatherbee; Jughead Jones; Betty Cooper |
Synopsis | Everyone says what's most important about Christmas. They all have materialistic answers except Betty, who says "It's not just a holiday -- it's a holy day!" |
Genre | teen; humor; fantasy |
Script | Al Hartley |
Pencils | Al Hartley |
Inks | Joe Sinnott |
Colors | Barry Grossman |
Letters | Bill Yoshida |
Characters | Sabrina |
Genre | teen; humor; fantasy |
Script | Al Hartley |
Pencils | Al Hartley |
Inks | Joe Sinnott |
Colors | Barry Grossman |
Letters | Bill Yoshida |
Characters | Sabrina |
Synopsis | Some facts about Christmas, including the fact that some of its traditions originate in Pagan rites. |
Genre | teen; humor; fantasy |
Script | Joe Edwards |
Pencils | Joe Edwards |
Inks | Joe Edwards |
Letters | Joe Edwards |
Characters | Li'l Jinx; Gigi |
Genre | children; humor |
Script | Joe Edwards |
Pencils | Joe Edwards |
Inks | Joe Edwards |
Letters | Joe Edwards |
Characters | Sabrina; Aunt Hilda |
Synopsis | Sabrina and Aunt Hilda join the Salvation Army and use their magic to get more donations and food for the Sisters. But they learn that there's something the Salvation Army provides poor people that witchcraft can't: "God's love." |
Genre | teen; humor; fantasy |
Script | Al Hartley |
Pencils | Al Hartley |
Inks | Joe Sinnott |
Colors | Barry Grossman |
Letters | Bill Yoshida |
Characters | Sabrina; Jughead Jones |
Synopsis | Sabrina's recipe for popcorn balls. |
Genre | teen; humor; fantasy |
Script | Al Hartley |
Pencils | Al Hartley |
Inks | Joe Sinnott |
Colors | Barry Grossman |
Letters | Bill Yoshida |
Characters | Sabrina; Waldo Weatherbee; Veronica Lodge; Moose Mason; Reggie Mantle; Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones; Dilton Doily |
Synopsis | Sabrina shows us what the Archie gang would be like as animals. In the animal kingdom, everyone is having fun at Christmas, until Dilton the Owl reminds them that Christmas should be more than just a "make-believe time." |
Genre | teen; humor; fantasy |
Script | Al Hartley |
Pencils | Al Hartley |
Inks | Joe Sinnott |
Colors | Barry Grossman |
Letters | Bill Yoshida |
Notes | Another example of a typical Christian-comics message in Hartley's stories: Dilton argues that the theory of evolution only applies to the pre-Christian world: "It used to be survival of the fittest, but the miracle of Christmas changed all that!" |
Characters | Sabrina |
Synopsis | Sabrina demonstrates various exercises. |
Genre | teen; humor; fantasy |
Script | Al Hartley |
Pencils | Al Hartley |
Inks | Joe Sinnott |
Colors | Barry Grossman |
Letters | Bill Yoshida |
Characters | Sabrina; Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews; Moose Mason; Reggie Mantle; Waldo Weatherbee; Pop Tate; Jughead Jones; Geraldine Grundy; Miss Haggly; Mr. Svenson; Dilton Doily |
Synopsis | All Sabrina's friends make Christmas wishes, capped by Dilton's wish for mankind to become more religious. |
Genre | teen; humor; fantasy |
Script | Al Hartley |
Pencils | Al Hartley |
Inks | Al Hartley |
Colors | Barry Grossman |
Letters | Bill Yoshida |
Characters | Sabrina; Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Mr. Lodge; Smithers; Chuck Clayton; Aunt Hilda; Aunt Zelda; Cousin Ambrose; Della; Obadiah |
Synopsis | Veronica's new Christmas tree is possessed by a spirit that only Sabrina can see: Obadiah, a powerful warlock who was confined to the tree as punishment for showing off his magic to humans. |
Genre | teen; humor; fantasy |
Script | Frank Doyle |
Pencils | Stan Goldberg |
Inks | Joe Sinnott |
Colors | Barry Grossman |
Letters | Bill Yoshida |
Notes | The line "She talks to the trees!" and Sabrina's response, "but they don't listen to me," are quoted from the hit song "I Talk To the Trees" from PAINT YOUR WAGON. |
Characters | Sabrina; Waldo Weatherbee |
Synopsis | Sabrina's magic causes Mr. Weatherbee to switch decorations with a tree. |
Genre | teen; humor; fantasy |
Script | Al Hartley |
Pencils | Al Hartley |
Inks | Joe Sinnott |
Colors | Barry Grossman |
Letters | Bill Yoshida |