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Twitter covers that image in so many tags, it's hard to read it! But I like Christmas cards like that from comic artists and bullpens for different publishers. A few I've looked at in the recent past were from Dave Sim, Bud Root, and a Christmas card I got a few years ago from Bud Plant.
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A 1970 Marvel bullpen Christmas card. Sometime before Stan Lee stepped down as editor in chief in 1972.
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This one looks to be a late 1970's Marvel Christmas offering.
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Marvel's 1971 Christmas card.
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Marvel's 1967 card. I'd guess John Romita as the artist.
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Merry Grootmas, G-Man!
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An offering from Sergio Aragones.
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I just realized, in your original image, Santa is Bill Gaines. I've never seen a picture of him without a beard. Easier to see, without the captions over it. I'd guess this was done in the late 1950's, while Kurtman and Orlando were still at EC/MAD magazine.
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A beautiful painted Carl Barks rendering, with a stingy Uncle Scrooge.
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...and why settle for one Barks painting, when it's possible to post two?
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The Will Elder Christmas image in black and white: Harvey Kurtzman in that EC image looks like PeeWee Herman!
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I know Will Elder best for his 1950's MAD and PANIC work for EC, and also war stories with Kurtzman and Severin in TWO-FISTED TALES and FRONTLINE COMBAT. And for his "Little Annie Fanny" work for PLAYBOY. This one caught my eye because, similar to the EC card, it's crowded with characters. I looked to see if there were any familiar EC staffer faces in the crowd: The same image in color.
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For obvious reasons, the Budd Root Christmas cards are ones I regard as some of the best.
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Wow, someone blog-posted the entire story for the "sugarplumbs" image I posted above from PANIC # 1, where apparently the EC staff Christmas image saw print. http://ethunter1.blogspot.com/2010/12/sunday-funnies-panic-1.html
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I thought this was pretty cool. A New Zealand trucking company did some imaginative parking for Christmas. It kind of reminds me of some neighbors of mine a few blocks away a few years ago, who put JESUS! in giant 15-foot letters with lights on the roof of their house. Aliens passing Earth could probably read it from space.
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Checked the list twice, I did. A Merry Christmas, you will have.I bought a set of these cards at a bookstore after Christmas one year, and sent them out two years ago. Everyone seemed to enjoy the Yoda Christmas. By Star Wars movie design artist Ralph McQuarrie.
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I sent out that Christmas card one year.
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As a lawyer, I thought you'd get a kick out of that one, and maybe even buy a set to send out.
Now it turns out you already have.
There were actually a lot of lawyer-themed Christmas cards I looked at. I guess you guys are a good market for Christmas cards.
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As a lawyer, I thought you'd get a kick out of that one, and maybe even buy a set to sent out.
Now it turns out you already have.
There were actually a lot of lawyer-themed Christmas cars I looked at. I guess you guys are a good market for Christmas cards.
A lot of law firms send them out to clients as a marketing tool. So yeah.
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Two Arthur Adams covers that would make good Christmas cards for Marvel.
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https://img-cache.oppcdn.com/img/v1.0/s:...7502169a746.jpgAnother nice EC Christmas card offering. Love the William Gaines toy puppet! Gaines in this image having his more typical appearance with a beard.
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VAULT OF HORROR 24, a Christmas cover from EC, by artist Johnny Craig. From one of the Russ Cochran reprints.
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Another from Marvel, where for me the heroes in the right costumes are wonderfully their 1970's/1980's selves.
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Perhaps an office Christmas card for a divorce lawyer.
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