A Christmas gift from my bride. This book reprints the 1958 Charlton Comics issue of the same name.
In this comic, Santa's helpers are little tykes dressed in red called Tinker Tots. Not Elves! The youngest of the group is a blonde munchkin named Punch. When a last minute letter to Santa arrives, Punch works hard on the rush order. Sadly, he breaks the toys as he slips on ice while loading the gifts into Santa's sleigh.
It's too late for Santa to wait any further. So one family is going without presents. That just wont do for Punch for anyone to go without presents from St. Nick. Thus the Tinker Tot goes to his room and sacrifices his favorite gift from his boss and takes a trio of baby reindeer on an emergency delivery run!
This was a very sweet issue. The art was very clean. The story had a definite Christmas feel with carols and religious imagery that isn't gratuitous.
While I do not think that the Tinker Tots have ever popped back up in another comic, the artwork looks very similar to several stories taken from Dell's numerous Santa Claus Funnies that were published as part of the Dell Four Color Comics series.
This cover looks similar to the Gwandanaland Comics reprints of which I am a fan of. I've talks with other fans and this book isn't from them. There was another publisher called Classic Comics Library that released this. A quick Amazon search reveals that their last publication was 5 years ago. So I think CCL is now defunct. Regardless, I loved this book. It was a great Boxing Day treat!
And this is my last holiday comic read of 2021. I've still got a bunch of stuff I haven't reviewed in the past couple of years, so more stuff will pop up until New Years. So stay tuned for more- maybe.
Worth Consuming!
Rating: 9 out of 10 stars.
No comments:
Post a Comment