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Monday, December 16, 2019

COMBATIVE CHRISTMAS COMICS #2-4

This 1976 reprint includes four Xmas-superhero stories, only three of which are combative.




First up is a story from a special Superman one-shot, "Superman's Christmas Adventure," in which the Man of Steel battles a mad-scientist, Doctor Grouch, who wants to force Santa and his elves to convert to capitalism. Grouch does boast a sky-ship and a gas-gun, and almost kills Lois Lane in a fire, but he gets religion at the end, so all's well.



Wonder Woman, while not explicitly celebratiig Christmas herself, solves the problems of a troubled marriage, gives a couple of kids a happy holiday and nails some Nazis for good measure in "The Story of Fir Balsam."



Finally, the Sandman and Sandy don't meet Santa per se, but end up both fighting crooks and helping a wrestler in Santa-gear, in "Santa Fronts for the Mob."


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