Comicon Advent Calendar Day 5 – Wanted: Santa Claus — Dead Or Alive!
by Richard Bruton
It’s the Comicon Advent Calendar – 24 days of Christmas comics to delight you. Way less calories than chocolate!
Another Christmas classic now, Wanted: Santa Claus – Dead Or Alive, a perfect little Batman tale from 1980. Written by Denny O’Neill with art from Frank Miller and Steve Mitchell, colours by Glynis Wein, letters by Ben Oda.
Yep, it’s Christmas in Gotham and someone’s stolen the star from a nativity scene but old Bats has got bigger issues to deal with – there’s an ex-con in a Santa suit, a department store heist to foil…
So Bats heads off to the department store and finds Boomer, the store’s Santa, in the midst of a heist… although, wouldn’t you know it, Boomer’s been affected by the spirit of the season, leading to a finale with a reappearance of that star…
