Four Color comic books issue 1062

Ad back cover. Indicia title is "Walt Scott's CHRISTMAS STORIES, No. 1062." Stories reprinted from NEA 1957 Christmas newspaper strips. Painted cover art by Walt Scott. Jeremy Christmas; The Spirit of Christmas assigns Jeremy Christmas, an elf, to rehabilitate four lazy men--Flash, Rush, Instant, and Sudden--who live on Slipshod Creek. The Music Box Trio; Melvin Mouse takes Holly, Jingle, and Tinsel, the figures on a music box who have come to life, to the Valley of the Small ones to reform a miser, Packard Ratte, who runs the trading post there. The Three Wishes; Three neighbors, who are musicians and play together, rescue an elf whose beard is frozen in a creek. Short recap of the life of George Frederick Handel and his writing of "The Messiah" oratorio. Short history of Christmas songs. The story of the writing of the Christmas hymn "Oh Little Town of Bethlehem" in 1868. All art by Walt Scott. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Art back cover. Indicia title is "Walt Scott's CHRISTMAS STORIES, No. 1062." Stories reprinted from NEA 1957 Christmas newspaper strips. Painted cover art by Walt Scott. Jeremy Christmas; The Spirit of Christmas assigns Jeremy Christmas, an elf, to rehabilitate four lazy men--Flash, Rush, Instant, and Sudden--who live on Slipshod Creek. The Music Box Trio; Melvin Mouse takes Holly, Jingle, and Tinsel, the figures on a music box who have come to life, to the Valley of the Small ones to reform a miser, Packard Ratte, who runs the trading post there. The Three Wishes; Three neighbors, who are musicians and play together, rescue an elf whose beard is frozen in a creek. Short recap of the life of George Frederick Handel and his writing of "The Messiah" oratorio. Short history of Christmas songs. The story of the writing of the Christmas hymn "Oh Little Town of Bethlehem" in 1868. All art by Walt Scott. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.