Santa’s My Favorite Mensch

by John | Dec 18, 2022 | Uncategorized | 4 comments

Happy Hanukkah!

Original Vintage Art & Text

Pencils by Dick Giordano? Inks by Vince Colletta. From the story “This Gamble Called Love” in Brides in Love #9, Sept. 1958. (No link this time. The original comic isn’t posted online.)

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SANTA: Actually, I don’t mind working on Christmas! I’m Jewish!

WOMAN: Happy Hanukkah!

1958 Art: Dick Giordano? & Vince Colletta
Santafication: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Santa Scribe: John Lustig

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4 Comments

Tom on December 18, 2022 at 9:17 pm

Helen? Odd name for a guy.
A Boy Named Helen. Don’t think Shel Silverstein would have liked it.
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- Dave Dell on December 19, 2022 at 5:02 am
  
  I didn’t see Helen lurking almost off panel at first either.
  
  I wonder what’s in that pipe… He has that sleepy eyed look.
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Calvins Brother on December 19, 2022 at 9:22 am

What state is he in? Delirium, denial, Wisconsin?
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Rex on December 19, 2022 at 12:28 pm

Santa couldn’t be a Christian, since he’s the father of Jesus!!

Look it up!!

And regardless of what you find, I’ll resolutely ignore it unless it agrees with whatever I just said.
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