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Esquire, Fortune, Playboy, Vanity Fair, New York: End the War on Christmas Magazine Covers! Who knows, magazines might even increase those newsstand sell-through numbers that are all doing so terribly if they just get back into the holiday spirit. To make a case, we’ve collected the Top 20 Christmas Magazine Covers of All Time.

The latest issue of the UK edition of Esquire features actor/comedian Ricky Gervais shot with arrows. It’s a visual reference to the famous Muhammad Ali Esquire cover from April 1966, and that cover is, of course, a clever visual nod to the famous paintings of St. Sebastian. And although it may be time to give that particular homage a well-deserved rest, this got us thinking about other magazine covers that have referenced magazine covers. Here’s a brief recent history.

It’s not news anymore that Barack Obama has (unintentionally) masterminded his own sort of newspaper bailout. Newspapers across the country sold out their post-election day issues, so popular was the NYT edition that they paper is currently offering a reprint as an incentive to subscribe to the paper. Magazines covers were flooded throughout the campaign with images of our now president, sometimes in various states of undress, a number of which achieved record sales and varying degrees of notoriety. Point being! Obama is good for print.