Pogo comic books issue 3

Add to cart GD/VG 3.0 $39.00 View scan 3/4" Spine split from bottom. Pencil marking. Cover oxidation.

Cover art by Walt Kelly. Scripts and art by Walt Kelly. Untitled one-page story; Churchy of the fire brigade brings marshmallows to the fire. "The Deep Freeze"; Pogo tricks Albert into helping him dig sweet 'taters on the hottest day of the year; Due to very strange circumstance Churchy gets covered in honey and feathers, causing Pogo and Albert to think that a blizzard is on. "The Grasshopper and the Ant"; Pogo and the grasshopper watch the changing of the [ant] guard (quite literally), and trick the ant queen out of her sandwiches. "School for Mice"; Seminole Sam tricks Albert and Beauregard into joining his newly initiated School for Mice, making the way clear for Sam to rob Pogo's pantry. "Feelin' Mighty Hale, and Farewell"; Albert steals and eats a beehive, thinking it's a fish pie; Upon discovering that the pie was intended for the fish fry, he decides to take his own life, but Pogo saves him by pumping his stomach with the fire brigade's pulmotor. Untitled one-page story; Churchy dresses up in fireman's clothing for frying sausages. Untitled one-page story; Albert does hat tricks. 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Volume 3 - 1st printing. By Walt Kelly. Softcover (Horizontal Format), 10 1/2-in. x 8 1/2-in., 72 pages, B&W. All Ages Cover price $9.95.

Volume 3 - 1st printing. "Diggin' Fo' Square Roots!" Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 64 pages, full color. All Ages Cover price $8.95.

Volume 3 - 1st printing. "Evidence to the Contrary (1953-1954)!"

Story and art by Walt Kelly.

WALT KELLY TURNS UP THE POLITICAL HEAT IN VOLUME THREE OF THE COMPLETE POGO - It's in this volume (featuring another two years' worth of Pogo strips) that we meet one of Walt Kelly's boldest political caricatures. Folks across America had little trouble equating the insidious wildcat Simple J. Malarkey with the ascendant anti-Communist senator, Joseph McCarthy. The subject was sensitive enough that by the following year a Providence, Rhode Island newspaper threatened to drop the strip if Malarkey's face were to appear in it again. Kelly's response? He had Malarkey appear again but put a bag over the character's head for his next appearance. Ergo, his face did not appear. (Typical of Kelly's layers of verbal wit, the character Malarkey was hiding from was a "Rhode Island Red" hen, referencing both the source of his need to conceal Malarkey and the underlying political controversy.) The entirety of these sequences can be found in this book.

But the Malarkey storyline is only a tiny portion of those rich, eventful two years, which include such classic sequences as con-man Seminole Sam's attempts to corner the market on water (which Porkypine's Uncle Baldwin tries to one-up by cornering the market on dirt); a return engagement of Pup Dog and Houn'dog's blank-eyed Little Orphan Annie parody "Li'l Arf and Nonny"; Churchy La Femme going in drag to deliver a love poem he wrote, Cyrano style, on Deacon Mushrat's behalf to Sis Boombah (the aforementioned hen); P.T. Bridgeport's return to the swamp in search of new talent; and of course two rousing choruses of "Deck Us All With Boston Charlie." In addition to presenting all of 1953 and 1954's daily strips complete and in order for the first time anywhere (many of them once again scanned from original syndicate proofs, for their crispest and most detailed appearance ever), Pogo Volume 3: "Evidence to the Contrary" also contains all 104 Sunday strips from these two years, presented in lush full color for the first time since their original appearance in Sunday sections 60 years ago - plus the usual in-depth "Swamp Talk" historical annotations by R.C. Harvey, spectacular samples of Kelly's work scanned from original art, and a whole lot more!

Hardcover (Horizontal Format), 12-in. x 9-in., 368 pages, PC/PB&W. All Ages

Cover price $45.00.

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Volume 3 - 1st printing. "Diggin' Fo' Square Roots!" Hardcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 64 pages, full color. All Ages

Volume 3 - 1st printing. Collects material from Pogo Possum (1949-1954) #4-6.

Walt Kelly's Pogo, acknowledged as one of the most important and influential comic strips of all time, first appeared not in newspapers but as a feature in the Dell comic book anthology Animal Comics, as well as in Dell's Four Color Comics before getting its own title, Pogo Possum, in 1949. Now fans of Pogo can see it all from the beginning with Hermes Press' reprint of the complete Dell Comics Pogo.

Hardcover, 7 1/2-in. x 10-in., 240 pages, full color.

Cover price $60.00.