Polite Dissent

Day Three of the Christmas Cover Advent Calendar. Only 22 days left until Christmas!

Today we head back to the early Golden Age with a visit to New Adventure Comics #22, from December 1937. This is the same title that would eventually drop the “New” and become just plain Adventure Comics and feature the original adventures of both Sandman and Starman. In issue #23 here, two children have arrived in the far north in a dog sled, holding a letter addressed to Santa at the North Pole. A local Eskimo is shrugging his shoulders as if to say, “Who?” I figure the kids have either arrived at the North Pole (which would be an impressive feat, given the state of their gear) and are asking a local where Santa is (not that anyone actually lives at the North Pole) — or more likely, they’ve just crossed the border into Canada — or maybe upstate New York — and are asking the nearest person where the North Pole is (because it’s a well known fact that everyone in Canada is an Eskimo).

22 Days until Christmas!
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