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Ho Ho Ho, bring on the Christmas covers
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Maybe too many for one post, but here goes. A recently acquired batch of Christmas readers.

 

Continuing on the promotional comics theme:

 

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Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer 1957-58 (Rube Grossman)

 

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Four Color 205, a favorite by Morris Gollub

 

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Four Color 253, a beauty by Walt Kelly

 

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Four Color 254. I'm not sure who drew this one. Classic commercial style that shows up on a lot of these books.

 

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Four Color 259 -- I should know this artist from indexing Raggedy Ann. George Kerr? Mo Gollub again?

 

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Four Color 302. Looks like Little Johnny had a little too much Christmas candy before reading this one.

 

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Four Color 359

 

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Four Color 361. This must be Irving Tripp from Little Lulu.

 

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And finally, some Walt Kelly reprints.

 

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Jack

 

 

 

 

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Nice books!

 

I just noticed this...........why were the christmas covers published in Feb-Mar?

Same thing with Superman and Action Comics, which were published monthly. Even if they were predated, March doesn´t realy make any sense to me.

 

Why wouldn´t they publish the Christmas covers in the Dec. issues?

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