Covering Xmas 2019 - Part The First

Somehow we've made it to the Xmas Season once again. And that means it's time for our traditional collection of Xmas covers from years past. I may have gotten carried away with this just a bit. Over the past two holiday seasons we ran about 160 covers. Pickings may start getting kinda slim.

But not yet.

Here's 33 to start our annual celebration, beginning with the cover of Life from Xmas 1900 -

They're covers. Where they come from should be self evident. (20th Century)

E.C. With E.C. & C.C.

Making good progress with getting set up to work again. Everything looks good and ready to go - with one slight snag.
I have no clue what my son's password is to access the system, and he's off on long haul trucking runs. No telling when messages will catch up to him. And so we wait...

But, while we wait, let's get an early start. 

Xmas is coming, only ten days away. And only a week until the first night of Hanukkah this year. Maybe it's still a bit early to start doing holiday comics, but these guys got started in July!

Further fuel to the legend that Pat Adams was Ellis Chambers.

I'm gimping the prep work on this little laptop with the tiny screen - so that's all for now. 
My eyes hurt.

page art by Ellis Chambers(?) from Wotalife #11 (1947)

Super Xmas

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Let's go big with 36 pages of Super Xmas - Siegel & Shuster Style - Sorta...

You see, while all these stories are signed by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, they didn't actually create them. This first tale is written by Don C. Cameron with art by Joe Sikela and George Roussos -

Ira Yarbrough and Stan Kaye provide the artwork on this next one, with Don Cameron believed to be the writer on this one as well -

Our final tale is brought to us by Alvin Schwartz and Win Mortimer -

If none of those names sound familiar to you, think of the frustration that creators must have suffered working under another's name. (And shame! for not recognizing Jack Kirby's inker on some of those early Fantastic Four issues)

page art from Adventure Comics #113 and Action Comics #s 93 & 117 (1946, 1947, 1948)