Favorite Christmas cover

[Silver]

I love comic Christmas covers. I personally think Archies were some of the best, but this is my favorite from my collection:

 

[shiverbones]

i too love them, i'll try to post some later. Thanks for the rudolph, i LOVE that series!!!

[chrisco37]

I always liked the "Lobo Paramilitary Christmas Special"

 

Chris

[ecfanman]

I have to admit that I am a sucker for Carl Barks. Wonderful story, too.

 

[Ares]

[tb]

One of my favorite purchases in the past year - hard to find this nice. Click on pic for a hires scan.

 

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[Bronty]

 

Screw the 9.6 marvels that are posted - I enjoy your books more!

 

Keep posting 'em!!

[RTBrandy]

I can't find the image, but FF (vol 2) #4.

 

Jim Lee cover if I remember correctly.

[shiverbones]

i think hkp has shown the most shocking books on these boards, they are supernatural! seeing some of his early ones got me to start up the disney collection again a few months back of course, they are no where near as extravagant

[drbanner]

[Shield]

On the stands 60 years ago today: (From Winter 1943):

 

 

 

 

[Bonds25]

One of my favorite purchases in the past year - hard to find this nice. Click on pic for a hires scan.

 

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I know this isn't in the Christmas spirit, but I hate you!!

 

[Mushroom]

I have to admit that I am a sucker for Carl Barks. Wonderful story, too.

 

 

First time I read that story I went and donated a whole bunch of toys to St Vincent De Pauls. Only Barks could invoke that amount of emotion (those faces on the children in shacktown..... ).

[Lantern]

 

[Lantern]

 

 

[RTBrandy]

Wonder Woman looks like she's got a big ole caboose in that pic....better hit the buns of steel video!

[sborock]

I love this one

 

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[Mushroom]

I love this one

 

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Not a lot of the Christmas cheer in that one Steve.

 

I don't think I'll be using it as a stocking stuffer for the seven year old.

[tb]

ecfanman, mushroom:

 

Christmas in Shacktown is one of my favorite Christmas stories of all time. I remember reading it as a kid back in Denmark and being very puzzled about the poor people (probably one of the first times I was exposed to that subject). I believe the cover is the only Barks cover from a longer story to have survived.

 

shiver:

 

Thanks - I like to see what other people collect and am glad you've enjoyed my own scans. Here's another Christmas classic (posted this last year but it's still one of my favorites):

 

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[garthgantu]

hkp and ecfanman: Those are some great duck covers.!! I'm partial to Barks myself, and Christmas for Shacktown is truly one of the classics.

 

'Shroom, I echo your sentiments: Barks could put more emotion into a "funny animal" character's face than anyone, and the kids in Shacktown are Exhibit A in this regard. hkp, when you say that you believe the cover of that ish is the only one from a longer Barks story to have survived, I assume you're referring to the original art..? Who owns it?

 

I just read another Barks xmas classic (there are many) that I don't think was ever reprinted elsewhere... it's in Dell Giant (Christmas Parade) #9, and involves Unca Scrooge hiring Donald and the boys to oversee the shipping of a 100-foot Christmas tree from Canada to Duckburg. The Beagle Boys are hired by Ollie Eiderduck to thwart Scrooge's plan, but thankfully everything works out for the best. The Beagle Boys are arrested by a Mountie for moose-knapping, and Donald and the boys help Scrooge keep his promise to the people of Duckburg, which in turn means Ollie Eiderduck has to eat one of Scrooge's spats. Good stuff, and one of the few stories where Scrooge willingly blows some cash.