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1. POGO Vols. 1 & 2 Gift Set (Walt Kelly's Pogo)
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Collects the first 4 years of Walt Kellys landmark comic strip including the dailies and, for the first time in color, the intial first three years of Sundays in a handsome slipcase edition. Meticulously retouched by Kellys daughter Carolyn and features historical essays by POGO historians Steve Thompson and R.C. Harvey and famous friends-of-Kelly Jimmy Breslin and Stan Freberg plus much more!2. Pogo The Complete Syndicated Comic Strips: Out Of This World At Home (Vol. 5)
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This is the first time Pogo has been complete and in chronological order for the first time anywherewith all 104 Sunday strips from these two years presented in lush full color for the first time since their original appearance in Sunday newspaper sections. In this volume, the Okefenokee gang decide to dig a canal to compete with the Suez (as soon as they can con one of their own into doing the digging) and consider going back to school. Among other hi-jinx, a flea comes a courtin' Beauregard the Dog.3. Pogo: Vols. 3 & 4 Gift Box Set (Walt Kelly's Pogo)
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For the holidays, Fantagraphics is releasing a handsome slipcased set of Volumes 3 & 4!
Vol. 3 presents all of 1953 and 1954's daily strips complete and in order for the first time anywhere. Pogo: The Syndicated Comic Strip Vol. 4 also contains all 104 Sunday strips from those two years, presented in lush full color for the first time since their original appearance in Sunday sections 60 years ago.
Partial color illustrations4. Pogo The Complete Syndicated Comic Strips: Under The Bamboozle Bush (Vol. 4) (Walt Kelly's Pogo)
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In addition to presenting all of 1955 and 1956's daily Pogo 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: The Syndicated Comic Strip Vol. 4 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. Partial color illustrations throughout5. The Best of Pogo: An Exuberant Collection of Walt Kelly's Immortal Cartoons Plus Photos, Articles and Other Pogo Memorabilia from the Pages of The Okefenokee Star
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Rear cover notes: "For Pogo fans everywhere, young and old, here's the best and brightest of the comic strip superstar and his creator, Walt Kelly, all in one volume. Who can forget Howland Owl, Porky Pine, Albert the Alligator, Churchy La Femme the Turtle, and of course, Pogo Possum? Take a delightful inside look at one of the funniest, most popular and literate comic strips of all time. The Best of Pogo features Walt Kelly's landmark cartoons in a marvelous scrapbook of anecdotes and behind-the-scenes stories. From Kelly's earliest cartoon creations to his legendary stories in pictures and words syndicated across the country, it's a warm and witty tribute to the man and his magical menagerie of lovable swamp 'critters.' You get the whole wonderful story, including Rare pre-syndicated Pogo comics; The immortal Whirled Series of Baseball; All the lyrics to 'Deck Us All with Boston Charlie'; And Pogo's real-life presidential campaigns, with first-hand reports on the wild victory parties that followed. Plus, a special feature: 'MAD goes Pogo,' a reprint of Pogo Possum parodies from MAD magazine. All this and much more, as you relive the life and times of the Okefenokee Swamp -- its timeless humor, its mischief, satire and political controversy."6. Pogo The Complete Syndicated Comic Strips: Evidence To The Contrary (Vol. 3) (Walt Kelly's Pogo)
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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 Houndog'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 Mush-rat'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!
7. Walt Kelly's Pogo: The Complete Dell Comics Volume 1
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Walt Kelly's Pogo: The Complete Dell Comics Volume 18. Pogo The Complete Syndicated Comic Strips: Bona Fide Balderdash (Vol. 2) (Walt Kelly's Pogo)
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Pogo: Bona Fide Balderdash is the second volume in a series reprinting in its entirety the syndicated run of Walt Kelly's classic newspaper strip. It features all the strips from 1951 and 1952, which have been collected before, but in now long-out-of print books, and even there they were not as meticulously restored and reproduced as in this new series. Bona Fide Balderdash also reprints, literally for the first time ever in full color, the two full years of Sunday pages, also carefully restored and color-corrected, shot from the finest copies available. This second volume is once again edited and designed by the cartoonist's daughter, Carolyn Kelly, who is also handling much of the restoration work.9. I Go Pogo