Manic Boxing Day Triple Overtime--They Left This Bit Out Of DC Who's Who!!

One thing you didn't know about Golden Age heroes:

All members of the Justice Society can speak bird!!

This is official and canonical, guys!! Let's get the stories started!!

From All-Star Comics #19 (1943)

Manic Boxing Day Bonus--Boxing Day Block War!

It's Christmas, and the Accountancy Judges (!) have a plan to greatly reduce crime in Mega-City One over the holiday!

What?

It's so crazy, it just might work!!

Of course, this is Mega-City One...so the best plans gang aft agley....

Even worse, when boxing day arrives, we learn: DON'T TRUST ACCOUNTANCY JUDGES!!

And once the citizens learn that someone has made off with what was supposed to be their payoff?

Oh, don't ever change, Mega-City One. Don't ever change.

From 2000 AD #2011 (2016)

Manic Boxing Day--Son of Whom, Now?

Well, lookie who's dressed up as Santa!

And he's not just Daimon Hellstrom or Hellstorm of whatever...

Man, it's been awhile since they've used that "Son Of Satan"moniker, hasn't it?

Daimon started out as Son Of Satan, of course, but at some point Marvel decided that that was a little too taboo or them, and started a series of retcons/revelations that Daimon (and his sister, Satanna) were really the offspring of some other, more minor lord of Hell. (Satannish? Really? "He's not actually Stan, he's just a little bit Satannish!")

So ever since, you'd be hard pressed to find a reference to him as Son Of Satan. But, at least for the purposes of the Power Man And Iron Fist: Sweet Christmas Annual #1 (2017), Satan is back, baby!!

And remember--this means that Disney owns Satan. Where's our animated feature, guys?

Unmerry Christmas, Dummies!

Some things never change...

Thank you, Bizarro. Thank you.

Everyone have a happy holiday. We're dark tomorrow. See you Monday!

Friday Night Fights--Termite's Boarding House Style!!

Be prepared for some nightmare fuel in this week's Friday Night Fights!!

Some tiny wooden puppets have been going around town killing people!!

How is this possible? Our evil Geppetto explains...
 

Wait...

OK, actually, that's a pretty cool idea, especially for a pre-computer age comic!!

Anyway, one of the murder-puppets is on the loose, on a mission to murder Martha, Doll Man's girlfriend!

Fortunately, having a super-hero boyfriend can be a handy thing...

CRACK!

Me too, Martha...me too!

Spacebooger thinks that Doll Man is much cooler than the Atom.

Puppet punching from Doll Man #10 (1946), author unknown, pencils and inks (probably) by Max Elkan

Now is the time for you to go and vote for my fight. Why? Believe it or not, this was the second comic I've read today featuring murderous wooden puppets! It's a trend!! We have to band together!! So vote for me to spread awareness of the evil puppets!! Now go vote!!

The Wild, Wild West Vs...Batroc?!?

In case you ever wanted to see James West fight Batroc...

...this is as close as you'll ever come, sad to say!

Of course, now I want to see Captain America pursue a time-traveling Batroc back to 1875 to keep him from aiding Doctor Loveless in replacing President Grant with an LMD and...

See? That right there is why I'm not allowed to write comics...

From Wild, Wild West #3 (1968)

How To Beat The Harlem Globetrotters?

Hey, coach, let's give Billy some pointers on how to play college basketball!

Of course, back in the day, the game was a bit different...

Look, I'm ancient...but even back in my day, if you shot free throws underhanded, you were relentlessly mocked for doing it "granny style."

Nope, they're serious...let's teach kids to shoot underhanded!!

Wow...we've been doing it wrong all these years...

From Treasure Chest Of Fun And Fact Vol 14 #9 (a.k.a. #255) (1959)

Slay Monstrobot's Holiday Gift To Our Readers!

Look, we really don't need an explanation here--it's just a runaway circus elephant vs two crooks in a tractor! 

And....GO!!!

You're welcome.

From Treasure Chest Of Fun And Fact Vol 14 #9 (a.k.a. #255) (1959)

Best Pulp Cover You've Never Seen--Planet Stories Winter 1947

Some mornings are like this...

Most mornings, actually...

Cover by Allen Anderson

That Time Superman Invented Auto-Tune!!

Batman is posing as a fortune-telling swami to lure a superstitious criminal he's trying to catch, and Superman is helping out by making sure that all of Batman's predictions come true!

Next one up is a toughie, though...

And so Superman invented Auto-Tune several decades early....

Meanwhile, the unnamed singer probably ruined her voice forever by trying to sing through laryngitis...

From World's Finest Comics #73 (1954)