{"id":4243,"date":"2009-12-02T23:59:01","date_gmt":"2009-12-03T03:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/?p=4243"},"modified":"2009-12-03T03:27:49","modified_gmt":"2009-12-03T07:27:49","slug":"december-2nd-santa-and-superman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/?p=4243","title":{"rendered":"December 2nd: Santa and Superman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/comics212.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/santa_superman_hahaha.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4242\" title=\"santa_superman_hahaha\" src=\"https:\/\/comics212.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/santa_superman_hahaha-600x421.jpg\" alt=\"santa_superman_hahaha\" width=\"600\" height=\"421\" srcset=\"https:\/\/comics212.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/santa_superman_hahaha-600x421.jpg 600w, https:\/\/comics212.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/santa_superman_hahaha-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/comics212.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/santa_superman_hahaha.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/comics212.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/action-105.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4244\" title=\"action #105\" src=\"https:\/\/comics212.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/action-105-211x300.jpg\" alt=\"action #105\" width=\"211\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/comics212.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/action-105-211x300.jpg 211w, https:\/\/comics212.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/action-105.jpg 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 211px) 100vw, 211px\" \/><\/a>Todays Christmas Comic comes to us from&#8230; Geoff Spear and Chip Kidd&#8217;s <strong>The Golden Age of DC Comics: 365 Days<\/strong>. Released a few years back, it was a meaty slab of beautifully photographed excerpts from Golden Age DCU Cover-art, with each of the images corresponding to a day of the year. This image is from the cover of Action Comics #105 (1947) and corresponded to Christmas Eve. I have to admit that I don&#8217;t know who drew the original&#8230; perhaps someone in the comments can add to this posting? According to CBDB, the issue features a 14 page Siegel\/Shuster story called &#8220;The Man Who Hated Christmas&#8221;, which was reprinted in the 80s I think, possibly in one of the treasury books. Anyway, it&#8217;s not easy to find, that&#8217;s for sure (and it doesn&#8217;t look like Shuster drew the cover to my eyes&#8230;).<\/p>\n<p>I believe this book (the Spear\/Kidd) is technically out of print, but it&#8217;s certainly not too hard to find at all&#8230; Though it&#8217;s original price of $40 might have been a bit off-putting, it&#8217;s a great discount-bin find just for the fun finds like Superman&#8217;s <em>unique <\/em>way of helping Santa down the chimney.<\/p>\n<p>As for Action Comics #105, the copy pictured would probably set you back a few grand. So maybe settle for the lovely cover-art here. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Christopher<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Todays Christmas Comic comes to us from&#8230; Geoff Spear and Chip Kidd&#8217;s The Golden Age of DC Comics: 365 Days. Released a few years back, it was a meaty slab of beautifully photographed excerpts from Golden Age DCU Cover-art, with each of the images corresponding to a day of the year. This image is from &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/comics212.net\/?p=4243\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;December 2nd: Santa and Superman&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canadian-cartooning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4243"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4247,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4243\/revisions\/4247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}