There's 4 issues of the Dell Comics's legendary series of holiday comics known as Santa Claus Funnies. (Astute collectors will know that these Christmas issues were originally printed under the title of Four Color.)
Each issue boasts fanciful artwork from Pogo's Walt Kelly. Kelly crafts tales starring his woodland creatures, a character called Christmas Mouse and of course Santa.
Along with the work of Kelly, every issue of Santa Claus Funnies reprinted has festive stories from the Old Country. A couple of the later issues have activities for kids to do. And of course, there's Santa and even more Santa.
There's some brutal tales inside. Several stories involve children being mistreated by adults. One tale has a couple of toys and a puppy being abused by a child. Even the puppet show story is kinda morbid as Santa recounts IN VERSE how a pair of siblings' wicked stepmother meet a grizzly fate.
The shocking tale of Christmas weren't what bugged me. My least favorite part was the inclusion of sheet music. While I did learn of some forgotten lines to some beloved holiday classics, I'm just not musically inclined enough to appreciate these tunes. There's also some poems. For the most part, they are pretty good. But sometimes the lines would not rhyme and such flaws would perturb me to no end.
If I was to find issues of all 4 of these issues, I would either have to shell out some big bucks for decent copies or have to put on protective equipment in order to not destroy the nearly 80 year old titles that for affordable prices, would be extremely fragile.
Finding Gwandanaland Comics has been an awesome experience. I've got some beautiful reprints and they've got a fan for life!
Worth Consuming!
Rating: 8 out of 10 stars.
This volume reprints Four Color issues # 61, 91,128 and 175.
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