Santa Meets the Martians

In 1960, Sales Promotions published a single-issue comic that mashed up Christmas cheer with sci-fi invasion, imagining what happens when Santa Claus encounters Martians. This oddball one-shot is a curious artifact of its era, blending holiday whimsy with Cold War-era space-age anxieties. While no major creators are widely associated with it, its sheer novelty as a seasonal genre hybrid makes it a footnote in the history of promotional comics.