Sugar And Spike Surprise Santa

The delightful babies Sugar Plumm and Cecil "Spike" Wilson surprise Santa Claus in this cover by their creator, Sheldon Meyer, from Sugar & Spike #44 (December-January, 1962/1963).   

Oh the trouble these two talking babies can get into....they should try being nice, instead of naughty before Christmas!

Bugs Bunny's Christmas Funnies With Friends

Gather around the Christmas carrot (???) and celebrate the holiday with Bugs Bunny, and a few of his friends, Porky Pig, Petunia Pig, Sylvester and Tweety, all under this classic cover by Ralph Heimdahl for Bugs Bunny's Christmas Funnies #4 (November, 1953), one of eight issues that ran through the 1950s, with Warner Brothers' animated characters enjoying the holiday, as I hope you are with your friends!

Marvel Classic Comics A Christmas Carol

For the last issue of Marvel Classic Comics (#36, from 1978), Marvel covered a Christmas classic...that of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol.


With a cover by Bob Hall, writer Doug Moench and artists Bob Hall, Al Milgrom, Dave Cockrum and inkers Frank Giacoia, Mike Esposito, Al Milgrom and Joe Rubenstein work together as Diverse Hands to tell the tale of Ebenezer Scrooge being confronted by three spirits, all to help Bob Cratchit and Tiny Tim, and has not been the first or last time A Christmas Carol has been adapted...

Christmas With The Super Heroes 1

Christmas With the Super-Heroes #1 from 1988 contains reprints of many classic DC Christmas stories featuring their super heroes, all under a new cover by John Byrne.



Those stories include...

...a Batman story by Frank Miller from the DC Special Series #21 of Spring, 1980; Justice League of America #110 (March-April, 1974), by Len Wein, Dick Dillin and Dick Giordano; Teen Titans #13 (January-February, 1968) by Bob Haney and Nick Cardy; the Legion of Super-Heroes by Paul Levitz, Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez and Dick Giordano from the DC Special Series #21 of Spring, 1980; one of Superman's meetings with Santa Claus from DC Comics Presents #67 (March, 1984) by Len Wein, E. Nelson Bridwell, Curt Swan and Murphy Anderson and a Batman tale from Batman #219 (February, 1970) by Mike Friedrich, Neal Adams and Dick Giordano....

...all to wish you a Merry Christmas!

Superman Visits Batman And The Outsiders For Christmas

Superman came to visit Batman and the Outsiders at Christmas time, though not quite for the best of reasons in Batman and the Outsiders #19 (March, 1985) in "Who's Afraid Of The Big Red S?" by Mike W. Barr and Jim Aparo (with Aparo also providing an ornamental cover for the issue)....

...sadly, this wasn't a casual social call, or even singing of Christmas carols, but something a little more serious.

Halo rushed into Wayne Manor to get help from Batman (Bruce Wayne), and after a bit (where she recalled her own personal exchange with Geo-Force), explained that he had gotten a call from a fellow graduate student, one Denise Howard, who had taken too many sleeping pills.   Geo-Force rushed to her rescue, to get her to safety, and found out that Denise's professor had been trying to take advantage of her, only offering her a scholarship in return for favors.  This enraged Geo-Force, who went off to handle the matter.  Fearing for the teacher's life, Halo came to Batman for help.  Batman said he would send a friend, and that Halo should go meet him (the other Outsiders were busy; Metamorpho dealing with his girlfriend, Sapphire Stagg, and issues with her dad, and Katana and Black Lightning dealing with a mugger taking on Santas as Katana misses Halo).

The help Batman called was his friend, Superman, who went with Halo to stop Geo-Force, as he was confronting the lech, working another student in his mountain cabin.  After a brief fight, with Geo-Force using his gravity powers to nearly match Superman, Batman arrived, finding evidence of this man performing this behavior before, and taking him off to jail.  Geo-Force then checked on the then recovering Denise (in his alter ego of Prince Brion), with her recovery being the start of a Merry Christmas.

This issue was a double Christmas treat, as, while Jim Aparo had drawn much of Batman and his family, as well as the rest of the DC Universe over the years, it was a rare chance for him to draw Superman, as well as a little of his supporting cast at the Daily Planet (Lois Lane, Jimmy Olsen, Perry White, even non-regulars like Melba Manton and Percy Bratten, all enjoying the Christmas cheer!).

Archie And Betty Celebrate Christmas

Archie Andrews and Betty Cooper show they know how to celebrate Christmas in this cover by Dan DeCarlo for Archie's Girls Betty And Veronica #346 (February, 1987).

Let's hope Veronica Lodge doesn't turn around or Archie's likely to get coal in his stocking.

Mad About Christmas

Finding everyone can only argue about everything?

Well, we can all agree on Christmas, right?

Well, maybe not even that, as an eerily prophetic cover from Mad Magazine #68 (January, 1962) by Don Martin shows....