Marvel Giant Superhero Holiday Grab-Bag

Here is the Christmas comic/photo for today. The 1976 Marvel Giant Superhero Holiday Grab-Bag. The The stories are reprints of Marvel Team up #6, Tales to Astonish #93, The Avengers #58 and Daredevil #86. There is an orignal story that is written by Roger Stern with art by George Tuska and edited by Archie Goodwin. That story starts out with the Fantastic Four and the Avengers holding a charity snowball fight. Spider-man, who is not a member of either group hits Ben Grimm with a snowball. Instead of getting mad Ben jokes with Spidey so Ben's not made to look foolish in public. Then the Marvel Team up story starts. Later the action shifts back to the snowball fight. There the Wasp rembers the classic story of how the Vision joined the Avengers in "Even An Android Can Cry." After that story the Silver Surfer is shown flying over New York and he passes by the Defenders HQ and seen by the Hulk. Hulk remembers the Surfer, or as he called him Silver-Face. He recalls the story from Tales to Astonish. Later Hulk is given a Christmas party by the Defenders. The story shifts to the law office of Nelson and Murdock. Matt Murdock leaves for the day and recalls the story "Once Upon A Time...The Ox" Finally the story winds up in sunny California with the then new super team the Champions with Hercules, Black Widow, Ghost Rider, Angel and Iceman. Iceman makes it snow so they can have a white Christmas. They too have a snowball fight. Then they tell Iceman to stop the snow. He says that he did and they all stand there in awe of watching it snow in California.
None of the reprint stories had anything to do with Christmas but they were all entertaining. This is the way I prefer to have a book of reprints. A loose knit story that ties then all together.But who cares as long as it is an affordable way to read good classic stories.