Robo-Santa and his Meccano tree, 1960

From vintage ad enthusiast Paul Malon's superb Flickr stream, this 1960 holiday season cover from science fiction magazine Galaxy. He has another one with two aliens sneaking up on Christmas, and a stressed-out interstellar Santa.

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Cooling fan grill for a star? Anti-aircraft gun sight?
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Santa appears to own to most brilliant coffee pot ever.
Napalm Dog

#ahem#

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- Alain Gabriel
  
  Emshwiller did at least 3 other drawings of his four armed Santa, in addition to those 4. Just put Emshwiller Santa in any good image search engine.
kiptw

Great work by EMSH — Ed Emshwiller (as is the linked art from Napalm Dog’s comment). He’d be worth a feature here, for his movies too.
http://www.facebook.com/people/James-Agenbroad/100002463876063 James Agenbroad

I always had a slight preference for Galaxy over Analog.
Vanwall Green

Where’s Magnus when ya need ‘im?
Nash Rambler

The fools! Don’t they know that in the 31st Century, Robot Santa is a deranged madman intent on destroying us all? Except Zoidberg, oddly enough. . .
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  Did any of you ever stop to think about Dr. Zoidberg’s feelings?