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Item #56765666
Pogo Possum (1949-1954 Dell) 2 CBCS 3.5
Paper: Off white to white
Label #22-1E8337F-005
Ended Oct 4 2022 Winning Bid $42 Cover art by Walt Kelly. Scripts and art by Walt Kelly. "Fire Bugs"; Albert and Pogo run a fire station, and get called to a fake fire, the fire engine getting confused with a gunboat. "The Gingerbread Cure"; Albert plays sick in order to make Pogo give him a freshly baked cake, but Howland and Churchy end up eating most of it; A cake batter fight breaks out in the end. "Never Give a Diving Board an Even Break"; Albert mistakes Pogo's and Porkypine's swampside seesaw for a diving board, spending four pages of the story fighting this board. "Ol' Willow the Whips"; On a moonlight boat ride, Albert and Pogo get lost and meet Howland and Willow, lost as well; In the dark the protagonists imagine many horrors. "Mother Goosery Rinds"; Pogo and Albert get tricked into babysitting Dee-licious; In order to entertain the child, they end up acting out several Mother Goose rhymes. Untitled one-page story; The frog runs away with Churchy's hat. Untitled one-page story; The bird interprets Albert's pipe as a nest. 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10. Grade: CBCS 3.5 explanation of grade Condition: Used (collectible)