It's our yearly Comics Should Be Good Advent Calendar! Every day until Christmas Eve, you can click on the current day's Advent Calendar post and it will show the Advent Calendar with the door for that given day opened and you can see what the "treat" for that day will be! You can click here to see the previous Advent Calendar entries. This year, the theme is a Totally Tubular 80s Christmas! Each day will be a Christmas comic book story from the 1980s, possibly ones that have a specific 1980s bent to it (depends on whether I can come up with 24 of them).

The drawing for this year's Advent Calendar, of Miami Vice Santa Claus giving out 80s presents, like a Rubik's Cube and a Sony Walkman, to four superheroes with the most-80s costumes around, is by Nick Perks.

Each day, a door on the calendar will be opened (once opened, the door will feature a panel from the featured story)...

Here's the story for Day 11, Christmas 1986's Daredevil #241, "Black Christmas" by Ann Nocenti, Todd McFarlane and Al Milgrom.

This was just three issues into Nocenti's acclaimed run on Daredevil and the start of a tradition where Nocenti would do a Christmas story for her first three years on the book. This was one of Todd McFarlane's very first Marvel Comics art assignments.

The issue opens with the recurring Nocenti characters, the Fatboys (a sort of child gang), impersonating Santa Claus bizarrely well and offhandedly noting, after Daredevil makes them give the money back, that they'd just as soon be spending the money on drugs...

We then meet the villain of the piece, the Trixter, a daredevil master of disguise who decides to mess with Daredevil, to see what makes Daredevil tick...

After a few altercations, the Trixter then straps himself to a lightning rod in an attempt to cause a snowstorm in New York City. Daredevil shows up, just as Trixter realizes how bad this idea is...

we cut to Karen Page visiting a friend whose boyfriend had just broken up with her, leading her to using drugs again, which Karen will help her through...

and we cut back to seeing Trixter seemingly killed by lighting, but successfully bringing a snow fall to New York City...

DOES ANYTHING IN THIS COMIC SCREAM 'TOTALLY TUBULAR 80s'?

The Fatboys totally scream 1980s, as does Karen's whole drug subplot. Perhaps the Trixter's ennui, to a certain extent?