What is your favorite Christmas comic book story? 0

[Robot Man]

It's that ho ho ho time of year again. What comic story about Christmas is your favorite?

Mine would easily be this one. Timeless. I have read it to my kids and now my grandkids every year. It so brings the true meaning of the day to everyone who reads it. The concept of not what you can get but what you can give others just warms my heart. If you have it, drag it out, if you don't there are cheap reprints or you can probably read it on line.

What is your favorite and why?

[Shrevvy]

Marvel Treasury Edition #8 Giant Super Hero Holiday Grab Bag. This and #13 are the first two comic books I remember reading. I got them both as a gift. I still enjoy reading the stories. The Luke Cage and Nick Fury Christmas stories are favorites.  

[Ken Aldred]

I doubt it’s the best, but the one I have fondest memories of is ‘Have Yourself A Sandman Little Christmas’ from Marvel Team-Up 1, also first read in an oversized Grab Bag Treasury Edition.

[comicjack]

The best of the best would be Christmas for Shacktown which is reprinted in this issue

[Ken Aldred]

6 minutes ago, comicjack said:

The best of the best would be Christmas for Shacktown which is reprinted in this issue

It is great. Read it in the recent Barks series from Fantagraphics.

[theCapraAegagrus]

[chrisco37]

[Kromak]

From what I remember, I also go with "A Christmas for Shacktown". Despite the cover, it's really a Uncle Scrooge history, especially after the first couple of pages.. It's an excellent overall history, however the last 4-5 pages could better, definitelly one level bellow the rest of it. If they were on the same level, "A Christmas for Shacktown" would be on tier 1 of the best Barks stories.

[Montezuma]

Another couple votes for Shacktown

 

 

[slym2none]

Uncanny X-Men #341 - Cannonball vs Gladiator

What makes it a Christmas story, you ask? Glad you did! The date is Christmas Eve in NYC and the remaining X-Men around (this was right after the whole Onslaught thing) are out in NYC, and Sam (Cannonball) is just trying to get some last-minute shopping done for his rather large family back home in Kentucky - literally, he pulls out a huge list, says  he'll see the rest of them later, and as he's leaving, Beast quips "We'll never see him again." So, Sam is in a department store when Gladiator teleports into the store and attacks him.

That's as far as I am willing to take this synopsis. Want  to know the rest of the story? "Read the book!" 





-slym

[catman76]

Mainly because they are the only christmas comics I have

[Jaylam]

[slym2none]

-slym
 

[Duffman_Comics]

Here's another vote for "Shacktown":

 

 

I also have a soft spot for Batman 219, "Silent Night of Batman" a story where nothing happens:

 

 

Edited December 7, 2019 by Duffman_Comics
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[Duffman_Comics]

Just thought of another dedicated Christmas comic, DC Special Series 21:

 

[Ken Aldred]

29 minutes ago, Duffman_Comics said:

Just thought of another dedicated Christmas comic, DC Special Series 21:

 

The one with the early Frank Miller Batman story.

Good choice. 

[Readcomix]

Maybe its because I just read it, but I'm going with Donald Duck's Best Christmas (Firestone Christmas Giveaway 1945, reprinted in WDCS #633).

[Larryw7]

"Silent Night, Deadly Night" from Batman 239. The first time I read the story it was a stripped book with only half the cover. It's a nice story, with a very touching ending. But even in a heartwarming story, Batman is still a badass.

[comicjack]

14 hours ago, Montezuma said:

Another couple votes for Shacktown

 

 

Two is always better than one 

[roach04]

What The--?! 10

"I'll be Doom For Christmas" by John Byrne, in which Santa is injured when he lands on Castle Doom and triggers the defence grid.  Realizing Christmas must continue, only one man can take the place of Claus...DOOM!!!!