The Best Present You Can Give A Kid This Year

Glenn Hauman

Glenn is VP of Production at ComicMix. He has written Star Trek and X-Men stories and worked for DC Comics, Simon & Schuster, Random House, arrogant/MGMS and Apple Comics. He's also what happens when a Young Turk of publishing gets old.

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9 Responses

  1. Brandon Barrows says:

    I have done this for a different holiday…Halloween.Candy lasts a few minutes at most, but you give a kid a comic book when they say “trick or treat” and most are shocked. Only once has a kid ever complained (and he was too old to be trick or treating, anyway, as far as I’m concerned). I’ve already made my Toys for Tots donation this year, but this is a great idea for next Christmas. I can’t believe I never thought of it before.

    • Sean D. Martin says:

      I do this every year. (“Why rot their teeth when you can rot their minds, right?”) Particularly satisfying this year when, on seeing them, one group of kids called out “They’ve got comics!” and the group instantly tripled in size.

  2. Brandon Barrows says:

    I have done this for a different holiday…Halloween.Candy lasts a few minutes at most, but you give a kid a comic book when they say “trick or treat” and most are shocked. Only once has a kid ever complained (and he was too old to be trick or treating, anyway, as far as I’m concerned). I’ve already made my Toys for Tots donation this year, but this is a great idea for next Christmas. I can’t believe I never thought of it before.

    • Sean D. Martin says:

      I do this every year. (“Why rot their teeth when you can rot their minds, right?”) Particularly satisfying this year when, on seeing them, one group of kids called out “They’ve got comics!” and the group instantly tripled in size.

  3. Brandon Barrows says:

    I have done this for a different holiday…Halloween.Candy lasts a few minutes at most, but you give a kid a comic book when they say "trick or treat" and most are shocked. Only once has a kid ever complained (and he was too old to be trick or treating, anyway, as far as I'm concerned). I've already made my Toys for Tots donation this year, but this is a great idea for next Christmas. I can't believe I never thought of it before.

    • Sean D. Martin says:

      I do this every year. ("Why rot their teeth when you can rot their minds, right?") Particularly satisfying this year when, on seeing them, one group of kids called out "They've got comics!" and the group instantly tripled in size.

  4. Jeff Alan Polier says:

    2010 was the first time in years that I’ve been home to hand out comics on Halloween. We’re the last house on a dead-end street in a small town so we don’t have a lot of trick-or-treaters but everybody who came seemed happy with a comic instead of candy. None of what I handed out had any monetary value but there were some good stories. I try and match what I hand out based on the age and gender of the recipient.My own little boy, age 8, has five monthly titles that I buy for him–soon to be six when “Young Justice” starts. We already have his Christmas presents for this year but maybe a long box of back issues could be part of his birthday present next year.

  5. Jeff Alan Polier says:

    2010 was the first time in years that I’ve been home to hand out comics on Halloween. We’re the last house on a dead-end street in a small town so we don’t have a lot of trick-or-treaters but everybody who came seemed happy with a comic instead of candy. None of what I handed out had any monetary value but there were some good stories. I try and match what I hand out based on the age and gender of the recipient.

    My own little boy, age 8, has five monthly titles that I buy for him–soon to be six when “Young Justice” starts. We already have his Christmas presents for this year but maybe a long box of back issues could be part of his birthday present next year.

  6. Jeff Alan Polier says:

    2010 was the first time in years that I've been home to hand out comics on Halloween. We're the last house on a dead-end street in a small town so we don't have a lot of trick-or-treaters but everybody who came seemed happy with a comic instead of candy. None of what I handed out had any monetary value but there were some good stories. I try and match what I hand out based on the age and gender of the recipient.My own little boy, age 8, has five monthly titles that I buy for him–soon to be six when "Young Justice" starts. We already have his Christmas presents for this year but maybe a long box of back issues could be part of his birthday present next year.