Editing Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (section)

===Comic books (beginning in 1950)===
[[DC Comics]], then known as National Periodical Publications, published a series of 13 annuals titled ''Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer'' from 1950-1962.<ref>{{cite book|last=Irvine|first=Alex|author-link=Alexander C. Irvine|editor-last1=Dolan|editor-first1=Hannah|chapter=1950s|title=DC Comics Year By Year A Visual Chronicle|publisher=[[Dorling Kindersley]]|date=2010|location=London, United Kingdom|isbn=978-0-7566-6742-9|page=65|quote=DC began an annual tradition of producing a ''Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer'' Christmas special.  Following the success of the famous song (released in 1949), DC licensed the character and put Rudolph at the center of a series of lighthearted adventures...The Christmas Special would continue until 1962, and then return from 1972–1977.}}</ref><ref>{{gcdb series|id=703|title=Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer}} and {{gcdb series|id=20874|title=Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer Annual}}</ref> Rube Grossman drew most of the 1950s stories.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.toonopedia.com/rudolph.htm|title= Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer|last1= Markstein|first1= Don|work= [[Don Markstein's Toonopedia]]|archive-url= https://archive.today/20120912154813/http://www.toonopedia.com/rudolph.htm|archive-date= September 12, 2012|url-status= live|access-date= December 4, 2011|df= mdy-all}}</ref>

In 1972, DC Comics published a 14th edition in an extra-large format. Subsequently, they published six more in that format: ''[[Limited Collectors' Edition]]'' C-20, C-24, C-33, C-42, C-50<ref>[http://www.comics.org/issue/245191/ ''Limited Collectors' Edition'' #C-20], [http://www.comics.org/issue/245181/#C-24], [http://www.comics.org/issue/68948/ #C-33], [http://www.comics.org/issue/245184/ #C-42], and [http://www.comics.org/issue/245187/#C-50] at the Grand Comics Database</ref> and ''All-New Collectors' Edition'' C-53, C-60.<ref>[http://www.comics.org/issue/245192/ ''All-New Collectors' Edition'' #C-53] and [http://www.comics.org/issue/68933/#C-60] at the Grand Comics Database</ref>

Additionally, one digest format edition was published as ''[[The Best of DC]]'' #4 (March–April 1980).<ref>{{Gcdb issue|id= 34179|title=''The Best of DC'' #4 (March–April 1980)}}</ref> The 1970s Rudolph stories were written and drawn by [[Sheldon Mayer]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.toonopedia.com/sh_mayer.htm|title=Sheldon Mayer|last1=Markstein|first1=Don|date=2006|work=[[Don Markstein's Toonopedia]]|archive-url=https://archive.today/20240525151213/https://www.webcitation.org/63e1zyO1w?url=http://www.toonopedia.com/sh_mayer.htm|archive-date=May 25, 2024|url-status=live|quote=[Mayer] also worked on several tabloid-formatted comic books for DC in the mid-1970s, including the company's first use of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer since the early 60s.|access-date=December 3, 2011|df= mdy-all}}</ref><ref name="Arnold">{{cite journal|last=Arnold|first=Mark|author-link=Mark Arnold (historian)|title=You Know Dasher and Dancer: Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer|journal=[[Back Issue!]]|issue=61|pages=7–10|publisher=[[TwoMorrows Publishing]]|date=December 2012}}</ref>