Thursday, December 31, 2020

Kung-Fu Christmas SAMURAI SANTA "Samurai on 34th Street" Conclusion

......Sam, a down-on-his luck ronin working as a department store sales clerk, becomes the store's Santa Claus after the old one drinks himself into an early "retirement".
Returning home, still in his Santa suit, Sam stops a mugging and... 
Though inker Jim Lee has become a comics creative powerhouse as an editor/writer/penciler/inker, writer Phillip Clarke, Jr never became major contributor to the comics field.
Penciler Don Secrease has done a lot of work for AC Comics and his own strip, Terranauts, after premiering as a b/w comic, has become a webcomics mainstay!

Thursday, December 24, 2020

Kung-Fu Christmas SAMURAI SANTA "Samurai on 34th Street" Part 1

Everybody, no matter their belief system, celebrates the winter holiday season...

...even martial artists, as this never-reprinted tale from Solson's Samurai Santa (1986) demonstrates!
Trivia: this hard-to-find book features the very first work by a writer/artist who became a superstar comics creative!
Let's meet him...
Yes, that Jim Lee!
BTW, do you have any idea how hard it is to find a Christmas-themed martial arts story?