Superman Brutally Punishes Santa!
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- Опубліковано 16 вер 2024
- Superman has had many holiday specials over the years. The golden age treats us to a Christmas tale wherein Superman must help Santa save Christmas...by helping him loose weight. Get in the yuletide spirit as we take a look at a DC Comics classic by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster "The Man Who Hated Christmas." Has it aged like wine, milk, neither? You decide here on Casually Comics!
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Favourite DC Holiday tale?
Christmas With The Joker from Batman The Animated Series
Sgt Rock and Easy Co. always had great poignant Christmas stories. Kanigher was gifted in that genre.
Mine is the Legion of Super-Heroes tale from DC Special #21 (Super Star Holiday Special) entitled "Star Light, Star Bright" but it also had stories for Sgt. Rock, Jonah Hex, Batman, and House of Mystery.
The one that ends with Supes punching a Santa-suited Batman. I've used the ending splash page as a pseudo digital Xmas card for years!
Most certainly "The TT's Swingin' Christmas Carol!" from Teen Titans #13 (1968), probably for nostalgia reasons but also Nick Cardy's beautiful art.
The 1989 "Christmas with the Super-Heroes" special has a lot of great stories in it. My favorite is the one where Superman helps a stranded motorist on Christmas Eve. The guy is suicidal after a number of setbacks in his life, and Superman talks to him and helps him get some perspective on his troubles. Then he gives him Ma and Pa Kent's address, so he doesn't have to be alone on Christmas. It's a very simple but really touching little tale, written and drawn by Paul Chadwick.
He did a similar thing for The Martian Manhunter in a Christmas episode of JL The Animated Series 🖖🏾
@@rodneylindsey849 - That was a GREAT episode!
Same issue had a great story called "Silent Night", no dialog, Enemy Ace celebrates Christmas with Ally forces
Paul Chadwick's "Concrete" series is definitely worth checking out.
"Thanks, Cringe."
-Superman, 1947
Santa Claus: Mmmhhmmm these cookies are sooo good!
Superman: Nooo! Put that cookie down! Now!
Santa: Your wife's cookies are out of this world
Here I was assuming Jasper Rasper's ornery attitude was because they had to go through life with the name Jasper Rasper.
I’m surprise Lois has never submitted to the meanest deed I’ve ever heard contest, with all the shenanigans Superman has pulled to trick
Lois into not marrying him, she could win every year
Lol probably conflict of interest, you can't work there and enter the contest.
@@CasuallyComics With all due respect, since when has conflict of interest EVER stopped Lois!?!
@@CasuallyComics I'm going to have to go with JP on this one lol
@@jpboursaw4469 well, we have to consider that she jumped off a cliff once because she was late for work, so maybe she cares too much about her job to put it danger this way
I wish they would have reprinted this story when i was a kid, i loved all of the Superhero Christmas storys, this one i think is crazy, like a lot of Golden age stories
3:02 I'm kind of surprised they didn't make an obvious joke here: "And...*Yule* be sorry!"
I think Superman’s weight loss program is just extremes of common weight loss ways popular in the day. I’ve certainly seen the weight loss sweat box before. That rubbing rubber band machine, and dancing is still a classic.
Do you think his freeze breath can freeze fat cells like coolsculpting? 🤔
My dad always told me that Santa got cookies at every house and if I wanted to get good Toys to leave a beer... It always worked... LOL
"Unstable molecules." That's how Santa's suit stays clean. Unstable molecules. Always.
That's Marvel. This is Golden Age DC. The answer to almost everything is usually rubbing, unless the Martian Manhunter gets involved in which case it's spinning.
Still better than the Aberrant superhero RPG, where "unstable molecule" costumes are replaced with ones woven out of a fashion designer super's magical hair. :)
Superman definitely has a career in metahuman fitness instruction ahead of him 👏👏👏
And for those who want to gain weight, he can call the Flash to force-feed someone an entire turkey in two seconds.
Yes, that happened. The Golden Age was wild.
I'm surprised that there isn't a panel of Superman screaming at Santa to shed those pounds like a bad 1980's high school coach.
...so if Superman went too far, would we have had the skinny Santa from the Rankin-Bass Rudolph special?
My favourite DC Christmas cover is Comic Cavalcade # 9 (Winter 1944), depicting Wonder Woman (with Flash and GL) leaning in through a poor boy's bedroom window to place presents under his Christmas tree. It's a still image, though, so you could also interpret it as them stealing the presents!
The villain feels kinda like something you'd see on Totally Spies.
What I thought too, that cookie episode gave me nightmares as a kid xD
Superman scaring the pounds off of Santa. Does Santa suddenly needing clean pants count?
I mean, I think Santa would lose some weight if he didn't eat a metric ton of cookies on an annual basis.
Methods notwithstanding, Superman is usually the best option for de-humbugging Scrooges. Batman kind of hates Christmas just as much, Wonder Woman, Aquaman and J'Onn observe different calendars, putting Green Arrow and a slumlord in the same room has many possible outcomes which probably doesn't include "learning the spirt of the holidays", Hal Jordan will crew it up somehow, and visiting ghosts just give villains ideas.
In some of these panels 40's Superman has a chest that would make Rob Liefeld blush!
Rasper is the type who gets upset over the very idea of student loan forgiveness!! LOL!! One of my favorite golden age Christmas stories is from the Golden age, that I read in Justice League of America 116. It featured a non-superpowered character named (or renamed) Johnny Peril. It was pure melodrama that moved me emotionally.
The only people who aren't upset at student loan forgiveness are those who benefit from it. If you took out a loan that didn't increase your income enough to pay it back, or you can't budget to pay it back, then that's your problem. Not mine. The government doesn't actually own anything; it can only take from its citizens. That means I'm paying your student loan.
He's very Randian
Guess what! You also benefit from student loan forgiveness, numb nuts! ☺️
Having an educated workforce is integral to our shitty country having any hope of progress or survival.
The funniest line in this video that probably said in DC's Comics' office. "No, it's science. We're saving witchcraft for another story!" 🤣😂
Superman's expression on that cover is deeply upsetting to me in the funniest way possible, and I don't understand why...
It’s mind boggling to me how anyone can complain about such a light fun story, they really are an old Scrooge.
The chimney obstacle course made me literally lol.
The Justice League episode where the Leaguers celebrate Christmas in their own ways is my favourite DC Christmas story. Green Lantern and Hawkgirl go for a bar brawl, Superman invites Martian Manhunter to Smallville for Christmas, Flash gets a toy for orphans, all nice stuff!
I completely forgot how much I lo ved and use to look forward for Santa to show up each year in comics (usually DC for some reason, except, ironically a Thing take or two); I use to save up to buy any issue no matter the comic that had Santa, his elves, decorated Christmas trees or the like on the cover. This one I've checked out several times and still love it. Though I remember the Sandman one with Santa and his elves vs the Warlus (seal people) best. Cool video; please do more Santa themed ones this Winter.
The whole gleee with which you approached and presented this story simply made me smile broadly. My day was a lot better better for this video being made.
Thank you so much.
Sadly, Rasper is one of the more realistic villains in these videos. "No one should have charity, I WORKED HARD SO NO ONE SHOULD BE HELPED!"
"Bullets cannot penetrate Superman's X-Mas cheer!" 🤣😂🤣😂🤣
Great show, love me some golden age Superman! I recommend the bronze age, JLA Xmas story, The Man who Murdered Santa Clause. This one has it all! A dead Santa-for-hire, a rare appearance by John Stewart(after replacing a Hal Jordon that slipped and was knocked unconscious in his own bathroom), Green Arrow explaining the meaning of the season to a hapless Red Tornado and Black Canary presenting a new costume to said android. AND... one of the lamest JLA villains, the Key-man!
“Christmas with no Santa Claus?… blasphemy”.
40s Superman is giving Dynamite Thor vibes
Sasha,, you must do Batman issue 239 next. That has one of the craziest Xmas covers of all DC. Merry Christmas, hon. 🎄♥️
Seems odd since Santa breaks into Darkseid's fortress each year just to deliverer a lump of coal to Darkseid.
This reminds me of a conversation I had with oldest child, and oldest grandchild just yesterday: About characters in comics who've appeared in various comic companies in various forms. For example: Sherlock Holmes, Dracula, and multiple deities like Thor*. Not Santa appeared in multiple stories, in several comic companies, but within the same companies he's different versions of the same characters.
As always thank you so very much for the video.
*I still Chuckle at Thor, first mentioned and drawn in DC Comics by Jack Kirby. Later used in Marvel, by Jack Kirby, though he was a little different.
Regarding classic Christmas comics - I would definitely recommend the holiday stories from Will Eisner's "The Spirit" and Carl Barks' Duck comics. They are usually consider some of their best works. And considering these come from genuine comic masters - that's high praise indeed.
Oh yeah, with Carl Barks' Donald Duck I'd specifically recommend "Letter to Santa" "A Christmas for Shacktown"
Comics Were Really Weird Back in the Day😳😳😳
Oh My God. I see that the Robot Chicken Santa vs Superman stories would fit in very well.
I wouldn’t touch this story with a “thirty-nine and half foot pole”.😁
I see what you did there! 😏
When I was a kid my parents taught me to always lock the door as soon as I came in. But because we didn't have a chimney we left it unlocked Christmas Eve so Santa could get in. They always said it would be okay.
3:55 Superman saying that would be a meme now.
You should do a review of an interesting couple of guys from Superman's Golden Age past. Hocus and Pocus. Three appearances in Action Comics starting with 193 and one appearance in superman Comics - #145. I've read the reprint of one of these and they are a fun bunch of stories.
I think they reappeared in a 80s Earth Two story
When you said "did Superman find his true calling" - I was reminded of an interview where (Alan Moore?) said essentially that people with super-powers would just be great at menial jobs. Worlds fastest pizza box folder, etc... Superman, world's most effective personal trainer! Batman - kick-azz forensic accountant. Flash - fastest CSI in the world!
"I can get your weight back to normal, if you'll co-operate..."
"Why wouldn't I co-operate...? What are you suggesting, exactly...? Why are you _grinning_ like that, and why is 'Eye Of The Tiger' playing...?"
The moral of this story: Always check the Terms & Conditions of your gym membership!
Superman and Santa-man: Holiday's Finest
Santa needs some emergency kryptonite for protection lol
Santa needs good security
Love it! Pop culture fitness through at least the 1960s always included the vibration machine and the steam cabinet to shake and bake the weight off. But what's going on with the Santa suit? How can he pack on the pounds and not Hulk out of his Santa suit? Is it made of unstable molecules? I need answers! 🤔
I enjoy these GA stories . You have to take them for what they are.
My favorite Christmas comics are Batman- Silent Night, Deadly Night and The Teen Titans Swingin’ Christmas Carol- it’s exactly what you think it is and it’s great. The art by Nick Cardy is fantastic!
I like the cut of Rasper's jib. And yet he is somehow less evil than Superman in this. What a time to be alive.
Super shenanigans of old are a holly jolly time, but curious if you have plans for any other of christmas comics? Maybe the time The Spectre tried to keep an entire city from doing any murder.
Anything Spectre-related gets my vote.
I just can't stop thinking about the Hudson's Bay Company for some reason... :)
I wish there were notes from how the methods of super-weight loss were devised for the story.
Typical wacky vintage stories. I'm sure glad you take so much joy to delve into them and share them with the world!
How does Superman make up new powers?
Alien biology, next question.
He threatens to put the writers on a diet.
One writer at a time
DCUI has a bunch of holiday comics that are free to read right now.
Superman has been reading those old Kryptonian magazines again. These methods were highlighted in the November 2002BC edition of Kryptonian Man and Masochist Magazine.
"I'm off to pay a visit to a fellow I hate" straight gangster
Yak yak😅 I might have to use that from now on. Also seeing Superman dealing with heavy Santa reminds me of the time Superman also gained a lot of weight.
Put that.. put that.. PUT THAT COOKIE DOWN!
NOW.
@8:15 Mr. Rasper was an early version of Ayn Rand and the GOP. No wonder he was on Santa's Naughty List.
Santa is lucky this wasn't a Silver Age story or he'd be a superhero amnesiac alien posing as Santa (who Lois Lane marries three times).
It's still November! This is supposed to be our last day free of Christmas!
"We've got to do this thing up right" haha, that sounds more modern than it should.
Where's my Jasper Rasper/Darkseid team up to destroy Christmas?
I think Superman always wanted a volcano sauna and making it for Santa is the excuse he needed. I hope Santa as some Elven Green Berets patrolling his parameter. Then again he does have Superman as a neighbor.
Ahhhh! I have an adventure campaign with a volcano sauna! I fear the lawduits!
5:00 If it had been "ACK ACK" Jasper Rasper would be DarksydePhil.
-Atlas- Santa Shrugs
missed opportunity to call it the rasper helicasper
Sasha if you'd like you can have my chimney and fireplace. I never use the thing and it's taking up space.
I would imagine abject terror does a pretty good job of burning calories actually, if you can look past the lasting mental health issues.
"Which include beating the fat right off of you" 😂😂😂 not that sounds funny
Superman scared the pounds away, but thereafter Santa had a persistent case of the hiccups!!!
Superman then held him upside down over a waterfall lol
@@CasuallyComics Santa slips from Superman's grip, only to be saved before hitting the water. Lois Lane, who was there covering another story, scored the scoop, all the while giving her an idea of how to get Supe's attention in the future....
You wont be laughing about fatties in Superman # 221 Clark! Mark my words.
"Would Christmas be Christmas without Santa Claus?" "Yes"
I fell salt. Why so salty, Sasha? 😅
Seeing how Golden Age Superman was such a #$%# I surprised he didn't use his heat vision to just melt off Santas excces pounds.
Odd story given Santa is a Kryptonian. Everyone knew this right? Think about it, Tiny Kryptonian Dre'Sar that look like deer, but with antlers in winter and the Herd Leader, she has a glowing nose for... reasons.
Dance Santa dance!
Jasper Rasper, O.G. "Sicko".
I want a Christmas Special where someone tries to recruit the Anti-Monitor to erase Santa from all the universes. Jasper should have done that.
Just makes me think of acquaintances with a (fantasy) weight gain kink who would love to get their hands on those chocolates.
The world got lucky. Instead of a weight loss program, Superman could have decided to rip holes in every rooftop so Santa could get inside.
You'd think he could use his heat vision to burn the fat lol
Okay I do love the coming soon/current vids but nothing can beat Golden and Silver Age Sasha commentary lol #Grinchsploitation FTW
Grinchsploitation, I like it!
This video was good, but my mind is still so blown by the Namor fact that it was hard to pay attention.
And once again, Canadian sovereignty is conveniently completely ignored by a Christmas tale. 🤣
No wellness check on the reindeer either?
Merry sliver age Christmas
Santa is apparently a mutant, so Superman's got his work cut out for him!
Thats the other universe. This one delivers coal to darkseid every year despite being shot at.
@@gregcourtney751
Darkseid: I fear no man. But that... *_thing_* scares me.
Never eat yellow snow.
I’m a month late, but I can’t help but laugh at a character being called Mr. Cringe 🤣
I knew what a sesquicentennial is. But I live in the west, where towns and even states celebrated it. Shouldn't Metropolis be celebrating at least their bicentennial in the 40s? I still believe that Metropolis is the greater New York area. Gotham is New York City.
You should do the issue of Superman's Girlfriend Lois Lane where she became plus size.
Say what you will about Jasper Rasper, he sure doesn't sleep on new technology. This was published in 1947, barely a year from the first civilian helicopters going on the market. They didn't even get full certification as safe to fly from the CAA (the FAA's precursor) until 1947, and there were probably less than two dozen of them in operation in the US by the end of the year. And here's Jasper with his very own personally labeled helo and the ~500 flight hours of training called for and ready to fly it to the North Pole - when most privately owned examples had maximum flight ranges of under 400 miles in perfect flying conditions, and were absolutely not capable of handling arctic weather conditions.
Really, the crash and near-death by iceberg collision shouldn't have been a surprise at all. Most realistic part of the whole story.
Marvel has two of my favorite Xmas comics. First is the team-up between Thing and Ghost Rider stop Miracle Man from using a magical recreation of Christ's birth on a Reservation to... do something.
The other is the Avengers story "Yes, Virginia, There is a Santron," despite some mistletoe creepiness.
Oh, and a short where the Illuminati give Santa the Infinity Gauntlet and have to reclaim it from him when he's instantly corrupted by its power...
I would like to know how Superman would handle the day the flash weighed 1000lbs
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Mr Cringe!
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The people offended by the fat jokes need to lose some weight and gain a sense a humor! 🎅🍫
How Superman Helped Santa Pull The Fat(e) Of Christmas From The Hands Of A Grasper Named Jasper Lol …Keep Up The Outstanding Work Sasha 🖖🏾
Jasper Whasper is right on this
Golden Age Superman treats Santa Claus like he will his girlfriend Lois Lane.
Nice outro!