If you got the chance to read the adaptation of "A Christmas Carol" from Charlton Comics' "Holi-day Surprise" dated March 1967, you're probably also scratching your head!
This is definitely "A Christmas Carol," but it is so oddly done! Where to begin?
First of all, I do like it. I think it's fun that it gets a different take, but it may have been puzzling to kids who learned the story here, then saw another version later.
The most interesting thing of all here is that the Cratchit (spelled "Cratchet" here) really seems to like Scrooge. They don't see through him at all, even though Scrooge admits he's been mean and nasty to Bob. They are really sad when he dies.
It's also different that Jacob Marley was apparently not that bad when he was alive. Scrooge took the usness form him, then treated him badly. This makes you wonder why Marely's Ghost wears chains, but I guess that's just his look!
From a story structure, it's also very odd that Marley's is the only ghost that appears. He takes Scrooge on all the little trips, despite each section having a title card introducing each ghost. No idea why they went that route.
Scrooge's family life is also a bit different, as there's no sign of Fred or Fan. But we do see Scrooge's mother and father, the latter of whom was a real barrel of laughs!
I'm not exactly sure what the setting of the story is. There's nothing to make it seem like London. It kind of seems more like rural America.
Throw in the crazy sequence of Scrooge running around "dead" and it's wacky as only something from the 1960s could be!
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