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Issue Details

Issue #[5 1954]
Published [December] 1954
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Whitney Ellsworth (credited); Lawrence Nadle? (actual)
Notes Credits are from Jerry Bails' Who's Who site and the reprint. Indicia: "RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER. Copyright 1954, by Robert L. May. Published by NATIONAL COMICS PUBLICATIONS, INC., 480 Lexington Ave., New York 17, N. Y., by arrangement with MAXTON PUBLISHERS, INC. Except for those who have authorized use of their names, stories, characters and incidents mentioned in this book are entirely imaginary and fictitious, and no identification with actual persons, living or dead, is intended or should be inferred. Whitney Ellsworth, Editor. Printed in U.S.A."

Cover Details

Characters Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer; Santa Claus; Winky; Blinky; Grover Groundhog
Genre Children; Funny Animals
Pencils Rube Grossman?
Inks Rube Grossman?
Notes No number or year on the cover.

1 page Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer activity "A Letter from Rudolph"

Characters Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer; Grover Groundhog
Genre Children; Funny Animals
Script Martin Naydel
Pencils Martin Naydel
Inks Martin Naydel
Notes A picture letter. Writing and art credits provided by Bob Hughes.

26 page Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer story "Rudolph and Grover Join the Circus"

Characters Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer; Santa Claus; Winky; Blinky; Grover Groundhog; J. D. Bumble; Fred
Genre Children; Funny Animals
Pencils Rube Grossman
Inks Rube Grossman
Notes This story was not originally titled. The title here was given in Limited Collectors' Edition #C-24. First line in the story: "By golly! There's the first star of evening just coming over the hill!"
Reprinted in Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer Annual (DC, 1962 series) #[13 1962-1963] [pp. 1-25, with a new last page]; in Limited Collectors' Edition (DC, 1972 series) #C-24

1 page Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer activity "Funland"

Characters Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer; Santa Claus
Genre Children; Funny Animals
Script Martin Naydel
Pencils Martin Naydel
Inks Martin Naydel
Notes A maze to Funland. Writing and art credits provided by Bob Hughes.

1 page activity "Jumbled Crosswords"

Genre Children
Script Martin Naydel
Pencils Martin Naydel
Inks Martin Naydel
Notes A crossword puzzle with scrambled letters. Writing and art credits provided by Bob Hughes.

1 page Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer activity "Rudolph's Snap-Snap Game"

Characters Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer; Winky; Blinky
Genre Children; Funny Animals
Script Martin Naydel
Pencils Martin Naydel
Inks Martin Naydel
Notes A game played using buttons. Writing and art credits provided by Bob Hughes.
Reprinted in Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer Annual (DC, 1962 series) #[13 1962-1963]

1 page Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer activity "True or False Kwiz"

Characters Grover Groundhog
Genre Children; Funny Animals
Script Martin Naydel
Pencils Martin Naydel
Inks Martin Naydel
Notes A trivia quiz. Writing and art credits provided by Bob Hughes.

1 page Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer activity "Mystery Cartoons"

Characters Grover Groundhog
Genre Children; Funny Animals
Script Martin Naydel
Pencils Martin Naydel
Inks Martin Naydel
Notes A dot picture. Writing and art credits provided by Bob Hughes.
Reprinted in Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer Annual (DC, 1962 series) #[13 1962-1963]

1 page Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer activity "The Back and Forth Game"

Characters Santa Claus; Winky; Blinky
Genre Children; Funny Animals
Script Martin Naydel
Pencils Martin Naydel
Inks Martin Naydel
Notes A game played with a button. Writing and art credits provided by Bob Hughes.
Reprinted in Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer Annual (DC, 1962 series) #[13 1962-1963]

1 page Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer activity "Scrambled Squares"

Genre Children; Funny Animals
Script Martin Naydel
Pencils Martin Naydel
Inks Martin Naydel
Notes Scrambled art. Writing and art credit provided by Bob Hughes.

1 page Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer illustration "Greetings from your Friend Rudolph"

Genre Children; Funny Animals
Pencils Rube Grossman?
Inks Rube Grossman?
Notes A pinup on the back cover.