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Issue Details

Issue #525
Published December 1953
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?
Notes Indicia title is "SANTA CLAUS FUNNIES, No. 525." Code number is S.C.F.O.S. #525-5312. Copyright 1953 by Western Printing & Lithographing Co.

Cover Details

Characters Santa Claus
Genre fantasy
Pencils ? (painting)
Inks ? (painting)
Colors ? (painting)

1 page story "Christmas Break in Hibernation"

Synopsis Two bear cubs set their alarm clock to wake them from hibernation at Christmas.
Genre funny animal
Pencils Dan Gormley ?
Inks Dan Gormley ?
Notes Inside front cover; black and white.

10 page story "Santa Claus and the Cuckoo Bird"

Characters Santa Claus
Synopsis A cuckoo bird comes to the North Pole to visit Santa. The bird gets the best of Santa's mean cat and gets to live in Santa's cuckoo clock.
Genre fantasy
Pencils Don Gunn ?
Inks Don Gunn ?

10 page story "The Kindly Cobbler"

Characters Santa Claus
Synopsis A kindly cobbler in a mountain village fixes poor children's shoes for free. He is behind on the rent and the landlord gives him one day to pay or be evicted. That night three elves appear and give him instructions to make a special pair of boots by morning. After making the boots, the cobbler falls asleep. Later he is awakened by an elf to come and meet the wearer of the boots--Santa Claus. The cobbler refuses payment for the boots, but Santa makes him his official bootmaker and the resultant publicity lets the cobbler pay off his debts and continue to fix the shoes of the poor children for free.
Genre period; fantasy

1 page story "Cottontail Christmas"

Characters Santa Claus
Synopsis A rabbit family has to figure out a way to make a sign large enough for Santa to see from the sky.
Genre funny animal
Pencils Don Gunn ?
Inks Don Gunn ?

11 page story "The End of the Christmas Ghost"

Characters Santa Claus
Synopsis Humphrey the mouse takes refuge from a snowstorm in an old house that is inhabited by a teddy bear and Sir George the ghost. Sir George is fated to stay in the house forever because he can't find the key that locked the chimney and Santa can't come to visit.
Genre fantasy; funny animal

1 page Sammy Smart story "The Right-Size Santa"

Characters Sammy Smart
Synopsis Sammy measures street-corner Santas to find one that will fit in his chimney.
Genre children
Pencils Dan Gormley ?
Inks Dan Gormley ?
Notes Inside back cover; black and white. Continuing feature?

1 page Kathy story "Taking Santa's Photo"

Characters Kathy
Synopsis Kathy stays up to take a photo of Santa. She falls asleep and Santa takes a photo of her instead.
Genre children
Pencils Dan Gormley ?
Inks Dan Gormley ?
Notes Back cover; pantomime story. Continuing feature?