From Captain Flight Comics #2 (May 1944), here’s “Captain Flight’s Microbe Plane” by Frank Stevens; since this technologically prescient (!) story is a whopping 20 pages long, I have decided only to display the first image on any page here that includes other posts, but if you click the link to the individual post, you’ll be able to read the whole thing:
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“Homer and Jethro Boogie” is the ninth track on the 1962 instrumental album, Playing It Straight, by comedy legends Henry “Homer” Haynes and Kenneth “Jethro” Burns:
Homer and Jethro – “Homer and Jethro Boogie”
Yesterday was the big day. Everyone got up way too early to open presents, guests arrived in the afternoon, and the celebration continued late into the evening. Still, you made the effort to get up before the break of dawn this morning to get in line to take advantage of the sales. But now, at last, you’re back home, and it’s quiet, and all you want to do is…
But there’s no rest for the wicked…
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Oh, Mantis! Don’t you know that Christmas is a time for giving?
Golden Age Comic Book Stories > Walt Kelly (1913 – 1973): “Deck Us All with Boston Charlie” — Mr. Door Tree presents a compilation of “Boston Charlie”-themed Pogo strips from 1959, 1961, 1967, and 1971.
From Mad #228 (January 1982), here’s “The 1981 Night Before Christmas, or A Final Visit from St. Nicholas,” with doggerel by Frank Jacobs and drawings by Harry North; this post includes scans of all of the original art, which is currently available for purchase, as a complete set, on ebay, from a first-rate seller (not me):
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Don’t worry, kids! Nineteen eighty-one may have been a tough year for old Santa, but he powered through his difficulties and depression, and even now, thirty years into the future, he is still on the job.
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