COMBATIVE CHRISTMAS COMICS #1

The vast majority of Christmas comics are about extending the olive branch of peace and brotherhood to all humankind.

But of course, superheroes are about extending knuckle sandwiches to the unrighteous, and so sometimes they gotta dish out some Krampus-style violence.

Case in point: this 1975 story from MARVEL TWO-IN-ONE #8. The title "Silent Night, Deadly Night," anticipates a later slasher-franchise, and the typically weird Steve Gerber story teams up the Thing and the Ghost Rider against the FF's occasional foe the Miracle Man. Seems that the evildoer has chosen to follow the supervillain-version of the "Imitatio Dei," creating a "miracle child" through whom he call rule blah blah blah.

There aren't a lot of these combative stocking-stuffers, but I'll see how many I can come up with during the month of December.