The first Great Pumpkin storyline was in 1959. I can find no DEFINITIVE evidence that it was related to the monkeys who were shot into space that year, but I cannot and would not want to rule it out.

#1170; In which a Pumpkin is great

  — October 30th, 2015

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A good thread on Terrible Dickens Sequels

December 25, 2025 by David Malki !

Over on Bluesky, Ryan Estrada has done a deep dive on the 22 (!) Christmas stories that Dickens wrote in the aftermath of the success of A Christmas Carol.

An old thread is making the rounds again, so here's an updated version. Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol is one of the most enduring and adapted works of literature in history. But did you know that he wrote 22 sequels? Some are great! Some are trash! Some are bizarrely fascinating.

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— Ryan Estrada (@ryanestrada.com) December 24, 2025 at 6:24 PM


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