Favorite Christmas Comics of the Past, Pt. 2

Hey Fanboys and Fangirls,

It's time for another installment of Favorite Christmas Comics of the Past.  I remember back in the 1970s when DC Comics came out with this really huge Limited Collector's Editions.  They were super-sized and priced at the unheard of sum of $1.  I love these books.  I still have many of them in my basement - not in very good condition because I read them so often - that and their size did not lend them to remaining high-grade books.  One of my absolute favorites was "Christmas with the Super-Heroes."  It was published in December 1974.  It was so cool - Superman carrying Santa's sleigh, filled with other super-heroes.  It was a fusion of my two favorite things as a kid - Christmas and comic books.  I was in heaven.

This was not the first "Christmas with the Super-Heroes" published by DC.  That one came a year prior.  I liked that one too, except for the fact that it's cover had a bright pink background.  But it too had the same winning formula: Santa Claus + Super-Heroes = awesomeness.

In other years during the 1970s, DC published other Christmas-themed Limited Collector's Editions.  Most of these were about Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.  But good ol' Rudolph could not surpass the sheer pleasure of Santa and the Super-Heroes to this young teen.

Cheers,

Steve Rhodes