Hokey Comic Book Holiday Stories

There have been quite a few, though I'm totally blanking on them now.

https://ridiculouslyawesome.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/marvel-team-up-spider-man-uatu-127.jpg?w=584

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http://wac.450f.edgecastcdn.net/80450F/comicsalliance.com/files/2012/12/shacktown01.jpg

(This actually a total classic, by Carl Barks.)

http://tfwiki.net/mediawiki/images2/thumb/4/4e/MarvelUK-041.jpg/230px-MarvelUK-041.jpg

^^not actually a total classic

there's the utterly inessential 'wanted: santa claus - dead or alive!' by denny o'neil and frank miller, which features a guy dressed as santa being brutally murdered:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-a3Nd7OKI0DE/Uq-Ai64MstI/AAAAAAAAAy0/E3DyY9jFrZY/s400/img139.jpg

and batman weaponising an xmas tree:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-PSgf6Fvu4eo/Uq-B9eBOACI/AAAAAAAAAzI/f1BHQ63og80/s1600/img140+-+Copy.jpg

i first read this story in 'the complete frank miller batman', a beautiful leather-bound volume i got for my birthday when i was nine, in which the story was sandwiched between year one and the dark knight returns. the tonal shift was jarring, to say the least.

Found this in the Kirby book I just bought, thanks to a recommendation in another ILC thread...

http://imgops.com/1hr-tempcache/55452001214102-831-89-101-141-kirby.jpg

http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/kittyiconic3.jpg

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I would guess there has been at least one comic book cover featuring Judge Dredd arresting Father Christmas every year since the early 80s

http://politedissent.com/tangents/advent09/images/6m.jpg

there was even a collection of xmas themed 2000ad stuff:

https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQHV3YJeW6i6BqTOwLRb-3n6zP-T3fUknNqbPkQ3gKoNd7Rq99cpg

This was one of my very favourite treasures when I was a kid:

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-a8FZ6V65HTk/UM_eZvx9ZPI/AAAAAAAAJsc/afa-yWHPGv8/s1600/giant_superhero_holiday_grab-bag_cover_marvel_1974.png

For a second I thought that Donald Duck comic said "a Christmas smackdown"

"Christmas in Smacktown" was the 70s update

https://dcomixologyssl.sslcs.cdngc.net/s/9757.jpg?h=36410f928245e996eb4788fd0e516748&width=180

http://politedissent.com/tangents/advent09/images/19.jpg

MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM THE BROOD

I was trying to find a Trencher X-mas cover but couldn't

http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20080617130130/marvel_dc/images/e/e1/Ambush_Bug_Stocking_Stuffer.jpg

I was trying to find a Trencher X-mas cover but couldn't

were you thinking of

http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i146/eggsfreebnik/567032-lobo_xmas__34_super-1.jpg

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-phqBVS8I1r0/UMJaM-UHatI/AAAAAAAAUvM/tmuBS4UUOi4/s1600/santa5.jpg

http://mattandbrettlovecomics.com/podcast/2013/christmas-special/lobo-elf-death.jpg

I have that Ambush Bug annual it's great

http://wac.450f.edgecastcdn.net/80450F/comicsalliance.com/files/2009/12/sonicchristmasfinal.jpg

http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7723/557/320/santasuper.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v314/billiam/dandare/Image2_1x1.jpg

http://cache.coverbrowser.com/image/fantastic-four/361-1.jpg

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4irVuZamOhA/TRXV_g85A_I/AAAAAAAAFCw/zLkrBaA7KZo/s400/Kara%2BDeadman.jpg

ugh

fuckin' Lobo.

http://www.littlestuffedbull.com/images/2013/psylocke/uxm255christmas.jpg

MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM A SEMI-SECRET AUSTRALIAN COMPOUND THAT MAY ACTUALLY BE SENTIENT

All those Playboy gag panels, every December: a Santa sleeping with someone's wife, or a blonde sitting on Santa's lap and her tits are out for no logical reason, or a pun on "comes once a year."

I guess that's not in line of the thread idea but it's what I think of when I think "Christmastime cartooning"

http://img36.imageshack.us/img36/9924/dcholidayspecial198029.jpg

Oh man... Code-era mystery and "horror" variety comics were really formative to me. Ubiquitous in the kind of garage-stale stashes my mom would find, and packed out with, like, renditions of classical mythology hosted by genial cryptkeepers. So great that they would also celebrate Christmas.

There was a Christmas issue of Eerie or Creepy that had some amazing stuff in it that has stayed with me for 30+ years... a Corben color story about an insane minister who somehow knew one Christmas night that the antichrist was going to be born, so he's going around to hospitals knifing newborns...and the henpecked husband who makes friends with Santa by throwing out the milk and cookies his wife has left out and replacing it with whiskey. "What do you want for Christmas, Bob?" "I wish I had more guts...I wish I had my wife's guts!"

The two Corben Creepy/Eerie Christmas stories that really stuck with me were the ones about the cruel orphanage and the murderer who dresses as Santa Claus. Both were really sad.

Something I find interesting about 70s horror comics is how sentimental they often were. Sometimes it worked in a really heartfelt way that was memorable, other times it went overboard.

weird I had no idea "Destiny" predated Gaiman's Sandman as a DC character

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destiny_(DC_Comics)

I was trying to remember what titles he hosted but I was wrong.

I liked the Charlton hosts way better (Winnie The Witch, Impy, Dr Graves, Mr Bones, Mr L Dedd and a few others), along with Uncle Creepy, Cousin Eerie and the EC hosts. I really love horror hosts. Dr Haunt and Dr Death were awesome too.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ViQd5hv7ny8/TRTzXA4It4I/AAAAAAAAAWw/kU3yMFLPRBU/s1600/silentknightI.jpg

Awesome. The little insert of singing heads would make a great Shrinky-Dink or puffy sticker.

I remember a late 70s Justice League Christmas story where John Stewart was the Green Lantern because Hal Jordan slipped on soap on the shower. I'm pretty sure that's a real memory.

NOT A DREAM! NOT A HOAX!
http://www.herogohome.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/JusticeLeague110Substitute.jpg

hal jordan is such a fucking dweeb

It's not even a yellow bar of soap!

I'm surprised Geoff Johns hasn't done a revisionist retelling of this incident in a 6-part miniseries explaining the soap represents Lather on the Emotional Spectrum.