It was the first literary reference connecting reindeer ... millions of coloring books featuring Rudolph between 1939 and 1944. Rudolph became the subject of a Max Fleischer cartoon in either ...

the tale of the little reindeer teased for his shiny nose had long been a classic. While the basic outline of the animated special comes from the original coloring book, many of its most famous ...

In the first version of “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,” it glowed “like ... He was the star of a humble coloring book, written by a copywriter, Robert May, who almost named the protagonist ...