Pogo comic books issue 2

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.

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Volume 2 - 1st printing. By Walt Kelly. Volume 2 captures the early days of the strip, with a wonderful sense of slapstick and absurdity showcasing Kelly's quick-witted humor. Softcover (Horizontal Format), 10 1/2-in. x 8 1/2-in., 72 pages, B&W. All Ages Cover price $9.95.

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Volume 2 - 2nd or later printing. By Walt Kelly. Volume 2 captures the early days of the strip, with a wonderful sense of slapstick and absurdity showcasing Kelly's quick-witted humor. Softcover (Horizontal Format), 10 1/2-in. x 8 1/2-in., 72 pages, B&W. All Ages Cover price $9.95.

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Volume 2 - 1st printing. "At the Mercy of the Elephants!" Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 64 pages, full color. All Ages Cover price $8.95.

Volume 2 - 1st printing. "Bona Fide Balderdash (1951-1952)!"

Story and art by Walt Kelly. Foreword by Stan Freberg.

Following the best selling Pogo Volume 1, this new volume finds Walt Kelly at the peak of his powers and features page after page of gorgeously drawn vaudevillian dialogue and action whilst introducing a host of new characters to the swamp. Created during the 1952 political season, Bona Fide Balderdash also features Kelly's acidic political satire and reprints, for the first time ever in full color, two full years of Sunday pages plus extensive historical annotation by comic strip historian R.C. Harvey and an introduction by Stan Freberg!

Hardcover (Horizontal Format), 12-in. x 9-in., 352 pages, PC/PB&W. All Ages

Cover price $39.99.

By Al Columbia and Ethan Persoff. There are Haitian zombies and voodoo warlords, a cancer patient, sudden unemployment, the disadvantages of caller I.D., a horrible death, cops with guns and flashlights, an ambulance, fat garbage bags, a clean apartment, blood on a carpet, and more! 24 pages, PC/PB&W. Mature Readers. Cover price $4.95.

Add to cart Very Fine $14.00

Volume 2 - 1st printing. "At the Mercy of the Elephants!" Hardcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 64 pages, full color. All Ages

Volume 2 - 1st printing. Collects material from Four Color (1942-1962 Series 2) #105 and 148 and Pogo Possum (1949-1954) #1-3.

Following on the heels of Hermes Press' collection of Walt Kelly's Pogo stories from Animal Comics in Walt Kelly's Pogo: The Complete Dell Comics Volume One, this volume collects the complete Albert the Alligator and Pogo Possum from Four Color Comics #105 and #148 and issues #1-4 of Pogo Possum. 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., 320 pages, full color.

Cover price $60.00.