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The story is especially beloved in Dickens' native England, where families retell it each December as one of their Christmas traditions. But Scrooge ultimately finds redemption and spreads Christmas cheer to one and all. Ebenezer Scrooge hunched over his account books. Scrooge's clerk, Bob Crachit, huddled at his own desk in the tiny outer office. The front door burst open, and a blast of December air whipped through the two rooms. When his nephew opened the door Christmas Stories leave, another gust of wind burst into the office. With it came the sound of carolers singing. Scrooge banged his window open. Leave me in peace! Scrooge banged the window shut. Christmas Stories also brought in more firewood and swept out the ashes. And, well, Christmas Stories closing time, Mr. Christmas Stories tomorrow off, but be here early the next day. You can count on it, sir," Crachit said, as he pulled his coat snug around him. He opened the front door, and Crachit scurried out. At the corner, neighborhood boys were sledding down a steep hill. Crachit leaped headlong onto one of the sleds and slid to the bottom of the hill, laughing and shouting, "Merry Christmas! He settled back into his Christmas Stories and finished tallying his accounts. Darkness fell, and Scrooge closed the last account book. He stood and stretched, Christmas Stories back stiff from the cold and the long hours hunched over his work. As he locked the countinghouse, he glanced at the sign above the door. Too bad he's gone. Scrooge trudged home, climbed the steps to his bedroom, and huddled in a chair beside the fire to eat his evening gruel. A fine Christmas Stories. I never learned the value of Christmas Stories and charity while I was alive. Now I wander the earth, unable to find peace. The same fate awaits you, Ebenezer, unless you change your Christmas Stories. Three spirits will visit. The first will arrive when the clock strikes Christmas Stories. Scrooge Christmas Stories out from beneath his sheets. A woman, pale and shimmering, stood beside his bed. In her hand she held a sprig Christmas Stories holly. Scrooge crept from his bed and followed the ghost. The room began to dissolve, and soon he was staring into the window of another room, small and dark. Why, it's the house I grew up in. Scrooge peered through the window. A small boy sat alone in the corner, reading a book. Scrooge's eyes grew wide. But why am I -- why is he -- sitting by himself? Scrooge frowned. They worked hard when I was young to give me the things I needed. She motioned toward the boy. Scrooge studied the boy. He looked well-fed and well-dressed, but his eyes were sad and scared. He reminded Scrooge of the caroler from the night before. Then he remembered how he had yelled and frightened the boy. The small, dark house faded away, and in its place stood a bright office filled with many workers. I was apprenticed to Mr. There he is. Scrooge Christmas Stories to a gray-haired man carrying a platter of roast beef into the office. Fezziwig followed with a tray of pastries. Behind Christmas Stories came house servants carrying bread and pudding and mincemeat pies. A fiddler began playing, and Mr. Fezziwig led his wife to the center of the room. He took her in his Christmas Stories, and they danced a lively jig Christmas Stories the office. The clerks clapped and tapped their feet, and several other couples Christmas Stories the dance. The Ghost of Christmas Past glanced at Scrooge. Do you recognize Christmas Stories clerk in the corner? The young Scrooge laughed and clapped to the music. His eyes were bright, his cheeks pink -- so different from Scrooge's own clerk, Bob Crachit, who had huddled in the cold the night before, working quietly, his face pale and shadowed. Old Scrooge thought about Bob Crachit, who had scurried away from the office as quickly as he could on Christmas Eve, never glancing back. The ghost waved her arms, and Scrooge saw his younger self again, sitting in Christmas Stories garden Christmas Stories a lovely young woman. The woman's eyes filled with tears Christmas Stories she said, "I can't marry you, Ebenezer. There's something you love more than me. You love it more than anything, and I won't settle for second best. When she stopped, Scrooge could see that she was a few years older. She was in a parlor that had Christmas Stories brightly decorated for Christmas. Children laughed and played at her feet. A little girl threw her arms around the woman and gave her a kiss. They ran to him, hugging his legs. The man laughed and passed out the gifts. Then he pulled his wife into his arms and leaned down to kiss her. I can't bear it. It wasn't a dream. Grab onto my robe. We cannot be late. Scrooge touched the hem of the spirit's robe. The bedroom Christmas Stories, and Scrooge found himself on a busy, snowy street. The dark of night had disappeared, and now the morning sun peeked over holly-draped storefronts. Men and women bustled along the sidewalks, while their children laughed and skipped at their sides. Scrooge shook his head. The ghost smiled. Today they can forget their labors and their troubles, Christmas Stories simply Christmas Stories their families, the fine food on their tables, and the blessings in their lives. When was the last time you stopped and enjoyed the moment, Ebenezer? Try it now. Close your eyes. Scrooge frowned and closed his eyes. The aroma of freshly baked bread mingled in the crisp morning air. Horses clip-clopped over the cobblestone street. An icy snowflake prickled his tongue. The Christmas Stories led Scrooge down the street and into a tiny house. Beside a small Christmas tree, a man was playing with his children -- three boys wearing patched trousers and two girls whose dresses were faded and frayed. The man looked up. He was Scrooge's clerk, Bob Crachit. The ghost nodded. His employer is a bit of a miser. And here's Mrs. A woman carried a small turkey into the dining room on a platter. She had adorned her dress with bright red ribbons, but her dress was mended and worn. 20 Best Batman Christmas Stories

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Christmas Stories whatever reason, Batman Christmas Stories translated extremely well to stories about Christmas. Here, then, in order, are the twenty best Batman Christmas comic book stories. A young boy has Christmas Stories his nickname of "Scrooge" and has cornered the market on Christmas trees. However, his advisers are hiding from him that the reason that he's making SO much money selling Christmas trees is that they are terrorizing all of the other Christmas tree sellers in Gotham City. The boy's uncle dressed as Santa Claus because Batman and Robin kidnap the boy and show him visions of Christmas Past and Present to show him the effects his dishonest Christmas tree racket has had on an old man and Christmas Stories younger man. Once the bad guys are dispatched, the young boy spends all of the money he spent selling Christmas trees to instead purchase toys for the boys and girls of Gotham City, delivered via Batman's Bat-Plane. It's a major society gathering, so Bruce Wayne must be there, right? Well, the answer to that is one of the many twists in this tale. In this earliest Batman Christmas story ever from 's Batman 9 by Bill Finger, Bob Kane, Jerry Robinson Christmas Stories George Roussos, Batman and Robin discover Christmas Stories young boy at an orphanage who insists that his father, in prison for life for murder, is innocent. Naturally, the boy is tiny Tim Cratchit and his father is Bob Christmas Stories. Batman and Robin prove Bob's innocence and everyone celebrates Christmas together, including Bruce Wayne's then-love interest, Linda Page. In 's Batman by David V. Tzin-Tzin plots to make Gotham City forget Christmas! Batman fights through his various illusions including fighting a bear on a Christmas tree! However, it is too late for Dick Grayson to get his girlfriend a present for Christmas. Luckily, Bruce Wayne Christmas Stories a stash of jewelry that he can give to Dick Christmas Stories give to his girlfriend - the perks of being a multi-millionaire playboy! Bullock and his partner, Renee Montoya dressed as an elfare there to stop some shoplifters. The shoplifters turn out to be Clayface!! Batgirl must help save the day. It's a simple story, but Kristiansen's off-kilter artwork really makes it stand out. Murakami's artwork is stunning, both the shot of Batman helping a little girl whose family is stranded due to the snow and this amazing sequence where Batman makes sure to replace the Christmas Stories wreath on his parents' tomb. Eventually, he and his guest star for the issue, Plastic Man, head down to Florida to take down a buttload of mobsters. Any comic that involves the phrase, "Let's start high-ballin' ourselves While Blockbuster is NEARLY mindless, he is not so far gone that when he comes across a young woman who has just tried to kill herself through an overdose of sleeping pills, that he cannot keep himself from taking her and trying to save her. In the end, Blockbuster sacrifices himself to save the woman, who now has a reason to live. This Batman: Christmas Stories of the Dark Knight 79 story was written by a young Mark Millar, before he became a superstar writer. Drawn Christmas Stories Steve Yeowell and Dick Giordano, it sees Batman tearing a path throughout the Gotham underworld to find items stolen from a series of Gotham City mansions, including Wayne Manor! As it turns out, he is trying to find the last Christmas present his parents gave him before Christmas Stories passing. In the third issue of Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale's Batman classic, The Long Halloweenthe Joker is angry at the attention being given to the holiday-themed serial killer known as Holiday. It is positively ruining his Christmas. He then terrorizes the movers and shakers of Gotham Christmas Stories to drive them to capture the killer, including visiting mob boss Carmine Falcone and Gotham District Attorney, Harvey Dent. Bill Finger and Charles Paris were the creative team on this story from 's Batman 45, where a prisoner on hour parole for the holidays finds himself near death after being killed due to his refusal to take part in a prison break the next day his cell blocks the exit Christmas Stories with him dead, the escapees have a clear getaway. As it turns out, Eddie is a dead ringer for Bruce Wayne, so Batman actually impersonates Eddie to foil the crime. As the same time, Batman also impersonates Eddie with Eddie's girlfriend including a kiss under the mistletoe. In the end, the escape is foiled and Eddie's help leads to a full parole and an engagement with his girlfriend and a reunion with his kid Christmas Stories, who has been staying with Eddie's girlfriend while he was in jail. Barr and Jim Aparo, Batman's whole world is turned upside down when he discovers records on a crook dressed as Santa Claus that seem to implicate his late father in the financing of a criminal empire. When Batman meets with Thomas Wayne's accountant, it seems all true - Thomas Wayne was an investor with the mob! Bruce Wayne then quits being Batman, as he feels like a fool to honor the memory of a crook. However, Christmas Stories, he eventually figures out that it is all a scam perpetrated by the Wayne's old accountant. By the way, look at the above image. Notice the green arrow next to the crook dressed as Santa Claus? That was one of Jim Aparo's famous hints where he would put Christmas Stories some visual clue into issues of The Brave and the Bold to let readers know who Batman was teaming up with in the next issue. In this case, it was Green Arrow, naturally. He has a whole pile of other hints. One Christmas Stories the all-time great Joker stories's Detective Comics by Paul Dini, Don Kramer and Wayne Faucher, has Joker kidnap Robin and take him for a terrifying drive around Gotham City, terrorizing the citizens while they do their holiday shopping. Can Robin find a way to get himself free and stop the Clown Prince of Crime? He refuses to go along, so they decide to kill him. They're about to do the job when a star shines brightly, distracting the bad guy and allowing Batman to save the day. But where did the star come from? Was it a Christmas miracle? The story was later adapted for an episode of The New Batman Adventures. Lee Bermejo wrote and painted this graphic novel that tells a variation on Dickens' A Christmas Carolas Batman "Scrooge" must determine what to do Christmas Stories Bob, who works for the Joker but is just trying to help support his young boy, Tim. Bermejo's artwork is breathtaking. In this tale from Batman one of the top Christmas stories of all-time by Denny O'Neil, Irv Novick and Dick Giordano, Batman runs afoul of a down on his Christmas Stories man who resorts to crime to feed his young daughter. He Christmas Stories decides to kill the miserly owner Christmas Stories the company that downsized him. Batman and the Christmas Stories girl chase after her father, using a magically appearing sleigh to reach him just as we see that he decides not to kill the old Christmas Stories at the last minute but to instead save the old man from the heart attack he was having when the younger man entered the house to kill him. In the Christmas Stories, Batman forgives the younger man and helps him get back on to his feet. The comic came with an awesome Neal Adams cover. Superman decides to give the boy a Christmas Stories surprise by dressing as Santa. On the way there, though, Batman stops him, convincing him that his powers are needed for greater deeds than something like this. Superman reluctantly agrees, but Christmas Stories decides he might as well give the kid the presents he bought for him. When he shows up at the kid's home, however, he discovers that Bat-Santa has swept in and taken the Christmas glory for himself! I won't spoil for you what happens after Bat-Santa winks Christmas Stories Superman, but trust me, it is worth every penny of buying this comic just to see the final page in all of its glory. Shockingly, he ends Christmas Stories singing all night, as some sort Christmas Stories Christmas magic keeps preventing crimes and other bad deeds from Christmas Stories like a war widow almost kills herself before she sees that her husband was erroneously ruled as Killed in Action. Some absolutely stunning Neal Adams artwork goes along with this oddly wonderful Christmas Stories gem. By Brian Cronin. Updated March 06, Superman: Dawn of Justice. LiveAbout uses cookies to provide you with a great user experience. By using LiveAbout, you accept our.