(It’s just that good! Seriously… always in my Top 10 - and you’ll see it reprinted again and again.) Also, there’s a Silver Age House of Mystery tale (narrated by Cain, and illustrated by Berni Wrightson), and the classic Mike Friedrich/Neal Adams/Dick Giordano Batman tale “The Silent Night of the Batman” - which is reprinted again in this year’s DC Holiday Special 2017.
This was a follow-up edition the following year (confusingly labeled 1975 again) with reprinted Golden Age Superman and Wonder Woman stories, plus a Simon & Kirby Sandman story. Last, but not least, is Bizarro (and I better just quote him): “This remind me uv old Bizarro Chrismis pome: ‘Christmas cheer… Now am here… Excoose me while I scratch my ear! Unmerry Christmas, dummies!’” Ah, Bizarro… such a beautiful wordsmith…Ĭhristmas With the Super-Heroes (1975) Treasury Edition #C-43, 56 pages Mind, The Penguin, Lex Luthor, The Joker, and Captain Cold. Probably most entertaining is the inside back cover’s “The Super-Villains Speak Out on Christmas” featuring Toyman, Mr. This contains stories with Silver Age Batman, Angel and the Ape (All-New!), Teen Titans, Golden Age Shazam (uh… Captain Marvel), and Superman, with a 1975 DC Superheroes calendar in the centerfold! Other special features include a Sheldon Mayer “Write Your Own Comic Page!!” (art and balloons, but no dialog provided), two pages of do-it-yourself Super Hero Christmas Cards, and a Santa’s Number Guessing Game with a number grid fixed in your favor. If you put two comics side-by-side and then rotate them a quarter turn, that’s treasury-sized.Ĭhristmas With the Super-Heroes (1975) Treasury Edition #C-34, 80 pages Not all of them are worth talking about - since they frequently reprint the same material over and over - so this is not a complete listing.įor those who don’t remember, Treasury Format means those oversized giant editions that are the equivalent of coffee table books for comics. They’ve been publishing Christmas-related comic stories since the Golden Age of the 1940s, and - as you’re about to learn here - issuing regular collections (containing both reprints and brand-new stories) since 1975! In the old days, companies like Dell and Gold Key would offer special Christmas collections or adaptations of (hopefully) popular Christmas films.īut it often seems that DC is the king of Christmas comics. Marvel’s done a few, as have Image and a couple other indy publishers. It seems that every December, various comic book companies issue special Christmas-related comic books (and even book collections).
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