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Title: | Changing depictions of Santa Claus in science fiction magazines and superhero comic book covers |
Authors: | Grech, Victor E. |
Keywords: | Santa Claus Comic books, strips, etc. |
Issue Date: | 2012 |
Publisher: | Dragon Press |
Citation: | Grech, V. E. (2012). Changing depictions of Santa Claus in science fiction magazines and superhero comic book covers. The New York Review of Science Fiction, 25(4), 292, 8-13. |
Abstract: | Science fiction was born in the pulps, an ingenious medium credited to Frank Munsey that utilized the then-new high-speed printing presses to print on cheap, untrimmed, pulp paper, resulting in low-priced magazines. It was by way of these cheap pulps that sf began to emerge as a self-conscious genre, despite the repeatedly recycled clichéd stories. Superhero comics evolved alongside the sf pulps. They depict latter-day surrogate gods and goddesses, whether human, alien, or mutant. As a seasonal treat, I would like to survey the changing depictions of Santa Claus on these covers. |
URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar//handle/123456789/25741 |
Appears in Collections: | Scholarly Works - FacM&SPae |
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