Christmas Covers - December 15

For each day of December until Christmas I'm featuring a Comic Cover Advent Calendar. Just move your mouse over the image to reveal today's special Holiday comic cover. Click on the image to get a larger version from GCD.

Today's cover is 1948's Batman #45. Artist Win Mortimer shows that even when Batman & Robin have been transformed into hideous half-snake creatures, they can still find the time to take a break from their busy crime-fighting schedule to deliver presents to upper-middle class suburban families. (I guess when you're Billionaire Bruce Wayne, just about everybody is less fortunate than you.)

Just 10 more 'get-ups' until Santa!

(You can find more comic cover Advent calendars at Polite Dissent and Raw Feed.)

Christmas Mix

Gordon at Blog THIS, Pal! wants to start a meme for Christmas Music mixes, and I'm more than happy to oblige.



Here then is my personal in-the-car Christmas 2004 mix:



Disc 1



1 Christmas Time Is Here - Ivy

2 O Come All Ye Faithful - Jeremy Camp

3 Emmanuel - Alathea

4 Little Drummer Boy - Martha's Trouble

5 Its the Most Wonderful Time of the Year - Martina Sorbara

6 I'll Be Home for Christmas - Nickel Creek

7 Frosty the Snowman - Fiona Apple

8 A New York Christmas - Rob Thomas

9 O Holy Night - Avril Lavigne & Chantal Kreviazuk

10 Some Children See Him - Alice Tatum

11 Maybe This Christmas - Ron Sexsmith

12 O Come, O Come, Emmanuel - Belle and Sebastian

13 It Came Upon Midnight Clear - Sixpence None The Richer

14 Carol of the Bells - The Calling

15 Christ Child's Lullaby - Kathy Mattea

16 Holy Emmanuel - Terry Scott Taylor

17 Aspen Glow - Love Spirals

18 It's Christmas Eve - Barbara Bailey Hutchison

19 This Christmas - Ashanti

20 Silver Bells - Rockapella

21 Red Lights (Merry Christmas) - Dreams So Real

22 Christmas for Cowboys - Jars of Clay

23 Same Old Christmas - Hilary Duff & Haylie Duff

24 Last Christmas - Sarge





Disc 2



1 This Time of Year - The Mighty Mighty Bosstones

2 Baby, It's Cold Outside - Jessica Simpson & Nick Lachey

3 I Can't Wait for Christmas - Mindi Abair

4 Glad It's Christmastime - Universal Honey

5 Elf's Lament - Barenaked Ladies feat. Michael Bublé

6 Santa Claus Is Coming to Town - Chris Isaak

7 Donde Esta Santa Claus? - Guster

8 Christmas - Cowboy & Spin Girl, Donna Esposito & Frank Bednash

9 Family Christmas - Lizzie West

10 Christmas - Leona Naess

11 The Christmas Song - The Ravonettes

12 The Christmas Song - Drea Ryding

13 The Holly and the Ivy - Iberis

14 Do You Hear What I Hear - Copeland

15 Joy to the World - Vanessa Williams & Brian McKnight

16 Little Drummer Girl - Alicia Keys

17 God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen - Rascal Flatts

18 The Christmas Shoes - 3 of Hearts

19 Christmas Song - Lizanne Knott

20 Mr. Christmas - Joe Diffie

21 Christmas Wish - NRBQ

22 Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas - Kortney Kayle

23 Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy (Red Baron Remix) - Berlin Symphony Orchestra

24 Angels We Have Heard on High - Da'dra Crawford, Carl Marsh, Monroe Jones, Nee-C Walls