Remembering Artist Mac Raboy

Remembering artist Mac Raboy on his birthday (April 9, 1914 - December 12, 1967) with a couple of his Fawcett covers featuring heroes not in the Marvel Family...Minute Man from Master Comics #12 (March, 1941) and Ibis from Ibis #1 (1942).

Minute Man was Jack Weston, a patriotic hero who was also a member of the Crime Crusaders Club, and Ibis was an ancient Egyptian prince as well as a magician, revived in the modern day to fight crime with his Ibistick.

Merry Christmas from Captain Marvel and friends.

Long before the X-men, Captain Marvel and his friends (Spy Smasher, Minute Man, Mr. Scarlett and Bulletman) were wishing you a Merry Christmas with Santa Claus with Xmas Comics #1 from 1941.

This was a collection of reprints from Captain Marvel Adventures #3 (August-September, 1941), Bulletman #2 (Fall, 1941), Whiz Comics #21 (September, 15, 1941), Wow Comics #3 (Fall, 1941) and Master Comics #18 (September, 1941) all under a new cover by Mac Raboy.  What Golden Age comic collector wouldn't love to find this under the Christmas tree?

Fawcett reprinted more comics, with Xmas Comics #2 in 1942, and, taking a few years off because of World War II, continued the reprints with Xmas Comics #3 in 1947, with different issues reprinted in each....under new Christmas themed covers.

Xmas Comics started again in 1949, running one a year until 1952 (totaling 7 comics), with the end of Fawcett Comics.