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Issue: Four Color #1274
Publication Date: January 1962
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Issues: #1274 of 1333 Issues (1484 Printings)
Title: Santa Claus Funnies
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagDell
Brand: Dell [stamp]View Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: 11/02/1961
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.15 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 8 (6 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
Disclose Notes: Indicia title is "SANTA CLAUS FUNNIES, No. 1274." Code number is S.C.F.O.S. #1274-6112. Copyright 1961 by Western Printing & Lithographing Co.

No month is given on the cover or in the indicia. Based on the copyright dates of this issue and others in the series released around the same time, one can determine that this issue was published with other Four Color issues bearing a "January-March 1962" cover date.

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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age U.S.; standard Silver Age U.S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Feature(s): Santa Claus Funnies
Character(s): Santa Claus
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Pages: 1
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Christmas Eve

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Santa Claus
Synopsis: A poem about Santa and his Christmas Eve trip.
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover and inside back cover; black and white. Typeset text with illustrations.
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Christmas Eve Space Trip

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, science fiction
Character(s): Santa Claus
Synopsis: Two brothers fly a popcorn-fueled rocket to the Moon, where they find that Santa doesn't visit the moon people.
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Pages: 8
Job Number: S.C.F.O.S. #1274-6112
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The Unsuitable Suit

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Santa Claus; Mrs. Claus
Synopsis: Buttons the elf brings Santa a new, updated suit to replace his old frayed one. However, no one recognizes him in his new clothes.
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Pages: 6
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The Guiding Gleam

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Synopsis: A lighthouse keeper rescues a puppy from a storm and gives it to his children as a Christmas present.
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Pages: 5
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Santa's Return Trip

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Santa Claus
Synopsis: Scamper the elf falls asleep in a box in Santa's workshop. The box is gift-wrapped and Santa delivers it. When he returns, Santa has one doll left over and has to return to a girl's house to trade the doll for Scamper.
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Pages: 7
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Woodland Christmas

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Santa Claus
Synopsis: Some food and gifts fall out of Santa's sleigh when it hits rough weather over a forest. The goods help give a hungry hunter and forest creatures a merry Christmas.
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Pages: 7
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Schwinn 5-Speed Corvette

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Inker(s): ? (painting)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Arnold, Schwinn & Company
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover. Ad for Schwinn Bicycles. Featured is Schwinn 5-Speed Corvette model for $79.95. Arnold, Schwinn & Co., Chicago, Ill.

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