We move from a graphic novel adaptation of "A Christmas Carol" from the 2010s to a hybrid comic/coloring book from the 1940s!
This is a 1944 promotional giveaway from Sears and it's a blast!
It's a comic book first and foremost, but it has pages for coloring and, most importantly, little cut-outs that you use to "animate" those pictures you just colored!
The comic book part is a fun retelling of the basic story with typical looking 40s artwork. That alone is good enough for me!
The "animated action pages" are the star, though. In the one above, it's very clever how you spin the wheel around to see the scenes that the Spirit of Christmas Past shows Scrooge. Each scene has a little description too. Kind of like a ViewMaster, hold the stereo!
My favorite action page is the one with Topper singing while "his sweetheart" plays the harp. It's actually Scrooge's niece (Fred's wife) who plays the harp in the book. Topper's would-be sweetheart is the plump sister. But I can overlook that because I think Topper is totally underrated and I'm glad to see him with a big part here!
You can download all the pages at this website:
comicbookplus.com
Someday I'm going to print those pages and make Topper sing!
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