DC Comics' 1945 Christmas Party

[samurainoir]

http://kleinletters.com/Blog/dc-comics-1945-christmas-party/

[johnnystorm]

That's pretty awesome stuff.
I love this kinda stuff, and it's nice to see some of these comic legends young & just starting out. Too often we only think of them as old men or names on a credit list, and forget they were "real people" too.
Thanks for sharing that.

[EMCE Hammer]

That is wonderful. I wish I had a time machine.

[Earth 2 Chris]

I always love this type of stuff. I took Roy Thomas first volume of The All-Star Companion with me to a comic show about 15 years ago, and I got to meet Julius Schwartz and Irwin Hasen. Schwartz wrote the intro, and there was a 40s era picture there, as well as pics and work by Hasen. Hasen took one look at young Julie and said "You were one handsome mother $%^&er!" Priceless.

Chris

[emeraldknight47]

Now THAT is a moment of true nostalgia! I have similar photos of my parents at the holiday parties that the C & O Railroad used to put on. It probably didn't seem like a simpler time to folks back then, but from listening to my parents' stories, life then seemed a lot less rushed and employees and their contributions were appreciated a lot more.

[TrekStar]

That is very cool, it's the first Christmas after the war and it must have been a great time, but I went thru the
list and weblink and I didn't notice the names or pictures of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster?

[Earth 2 Chris]

^Had Siegel already sued National over Superboy by this point? I know they were fired from the books by 1947.

Chris

[cjefferys]

Very cool, and it's awesome to see that note with everyone's names also survived all these years. Hey, Tom Cruise was there!

[jimbutsu]

Does anyone else find a tremendous amount of glee in how well represented the Tribe would have been at a 1945 DC Christmas party?