Jeez Louise, was I jazzed to do this installment of
Prince Street News.
BACK ISSUE! #85 is dedicated to Christmas comic books of the Bronze Age, a merging of passions that makes my black little heart (like that of a certain Seussian Scrooge) grow three sizes. I can still remember finding the first DC and Marvel treasuries (and the Archie digest I'm holding in the final panel) at the newsstand that gave this comic strip its name back in 1973-74, and I still pull them out and read them every year. While there have been
some collections of
holiday comic book stories, I still feel like the definitive anthologies have yet to be compiled. Now THAT would be a dream job.
In the meantime, as the song says, Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas. See you next year.
