Any Doc adventures with a Christmas theme?

[Ted Nolan <tednolan>]

Seems like I recall a lot of snow, but never any specific Christmas
mentions or the guys delivering gifts to any victim's kids or whatever..


Ted

[mikey]

I always suspected Doc of being a closet Muslim. Now I'm getting even
more suspicious.

[Dave]

I've always been amazed at how FEW holiday themed stories appeared in
the pulps, especially since they were a staple in the slicks

dave

[mikey]

Groundhog day seems to be given the cold shoulder in the pulps also.

[TBerk]

Post by Dave
I've always been amazed at how FEW holiday themed stories appeared in
the pulps, especially since they were a staple in the slicks
dave

Funny as it seems (and I haven't gone and counted) it would seem to
make sense that Halloween would be the one most represented.


berk

[Marcus Tee]

Post by Dave
I've always been amazed at how FEW holiday themed stories appeared in
the pulps, especially since they were a staple in the slicks
dave

I've always been THANKFUL at how FEW holiday themed stories appeared
in the pulps, especially since they were a staple in the slicks

--
Doc would never be stupid enough to fall for the Xmas scam. He'd know
that Jesus couldn't have been born in Dec. since it gets really cold
in Jerusalem in the winter and shepherds don't live outside during
that month. He'd have realized that Jesus must have been born around
Oct. He'd also realize that Jesus birthday is never really spoken of
in the Bible and Jesus himself never spoke of it, nor did he tell his
disciples to celebrate it.

Marcus Tee

[TBerk]

Post by Marcus Tee

Post by Dave
I've always been amazed at how FEW holiday themed stories appeared in
the pulps, especially since they were a staple in the slicks
dave

I've always been THANKFUL at how FEW holiday themed stories appeared
in the pulps, especially since they were a staple in the slicks
--
Doc would never be stupid enough to fall for the Xmas scam. He'd know
that Jesus couldn't have been born in Dec. since it gets really cold
in Jerusalem in the winter and shepherds don't live outside during
that month. He'd have realized that Jesus must have been born around
Oct. He'd also realize that Jesus birthday is never really spoken of
in the Bible and Jesus himself never spoke of it, nor did he tell his
disciples to celebrate it.
Marcus Tee

Christmas isn't the birthday of Jesus, it's Santa's b-day. (thought ya
knew...)


berk

[Marcus Tee]

Post by TBerk

Post by Marcus Tee

Post by Dave
I've always been amazed at how FEW holiday themed stories appeared in
the pulps, especially since they were a staple in the slicks
dave

I've always been THANKFUL at how FEW holiday themed stories appeared
in the pulps, especially since they were a staple in the slicks
--
Doc would never be stupid enough to fall for the Xmas scam. He'd know
that Jesus couldn't have been born in Dec. since it gets really cold
in Jerusalem in the winter and shepherds don't live outside during
that month. He'd have realized that Jesus must have been born around
Oct. He'd also realize that Jesus birthday is never really spoken of
in the Bible and Jesus himself never spoke of it, nor did he tell his
disciples to celebrate it.
Marcus Tee

Christmas isn't the birthday of Jesus, it's Santa's b-day. (thought ya
knew...)
berk

And what is Sata, er uh, Santa an anagram for?

MT

[Michael Black]

Post by Ted Nolan <tednolan>
Seems like I recall a lot of snow, but never any specific Christmas
mentions or the guys delivering gifts to any victim's kids or whatever..

If they have Christmas stories, then they have to run them in an issue
close to Christmas.

Certainly with the science fiction magazines, there often seemed to be
an unreliability about them, closing down suddenly or changing the
frequency, or just not issuing issues for periods of time. If they put in
seasonal material, then it ends up being odd when Santa Claus appears in a
July issue or whenever. Plus, for marketing reasons, many magazines seemed
to carry a month that was actually months in the future, so that December
issue would come out in September. That puts a Christmas story in the
December issue too early, yet it would also make it odd to see a Christmas
story in the March issue, even if the March issue arrived shortly before
Christmas.

And likely the types of people who read the pulps were less interested in
Christmas, at least in reading about some quaint story about how Santa
Claus saved the martians. They could get that anywhere, but they wanted
real adventure so they looked to the pulps.

There's very little Christmas-themed science fiction, the only thing that
comes to mind is maybe an Isaac Asimov short story that takes place around
Christmas, and I may not even be remembering that properly.

Michael

[Ted Nolan <tednolan>]

Post by Michael Black

Post by Ted Nolan <tednolan>
Seems like I recall a lot of snow, but never any specific Christmas
mentions or the guys delivering gifts to any victim's kids or whatever..

If they have Christmas stories, then they have to run them in an issue
close to Christmas.
Certainly with the science fiction magazines, there often seemed to be
an unreliability about them, closing down suddenly or changing the
frequency, or just not issuing issues for periods of time. If they put in
seasonal material, then it ends up being odd when Santa Claus appears in a
July issue or whenever. Plus, for marketing reasons, many magazines seemed
to carry a month that was actually months in the future, so that December
issue would come out in September. That puts a Christmas story in the
December issue too early, yet it would also make it odd to see a Christmas
story in the March issue, even if the March issue arrived shortly before
Christmas.
And likely the types of people who read the pulps were less interested in
Christmas, at least in reading about some quaint story about how Santa
Claus saved the martians. They could get that anywhere, but they wanted
real adventure so they looked to the pulps.
There's very little Christmas-themed science fiction, the only thing that
comes to mind is maybe an Isaac Asimov short story that takes place around
Christmas, and I may not even be remembering that properly.
Michael

One of Clarke's most famous stories is Christmas themed, but it's not a
happy story..

Ted

[Dave]

The Asimov story was one of his very first sales.

Was pulp distribution that bad, compared with the slicks? Your
SATURDAY EVENING POST and COLLIERS would have covers themed for
hoidays -- not just Christmas, WESTERN magazine very often had a
Christmas-themed cover in the ones I have (1920s).

And, of course, there's the classic Christmas scene at the end of the
DOC SAVAGE movie

dave

[T Guy]

(Michael Black <***@ncf.ca> ):

Plus, for marketing reasons, many magazines seemed

Post by Michael Black
to carry a month that was actually months in the future, so that December
issue would come out in September.  That puts a Christmas story in the
December issue too early, yet it would also make it odd to see a Christmas
story in the March issue, even if the March issue arrived shortly before
Christmas.

(T Guy):

Yes, I was puzzled by the appearance of a Christmas story in the march
issue of a Marvel comic in the early nineteen-seventies, till I read
somewhere that the Americans got their comics three months ahead of
the cover-date (we got their comics a month ahead at most over here in
Britain).

T Guy