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In addition to presenting all of 1955 and 1956's daily Pogo strips for the first time anywhere, Pogo: The Syndicated Comic Strips Vol. 4 also contains all 104 Sunday strips from these two years in full color for the first time since their original appearance in Sunday newspaper sections 60 years ago! Plus the usual in-depth annotations, samples of Kelly's work scanned from original art, and a whole lot more! And, for the holidays, we're also releasing a handsome slipcased set of this volume and Vol. 3.
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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
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In addition to presenting all of 1957 and 1958's daily Pogo strips complete in order for the first time, Pogo: The Syndicated Comic Strips Vol. 5 also contains all 104 Sunday strips from these two years, in lush full color for the first time in 60 years! Pogo Vol. 5 also includes a foreword by lifelong Pogo fan and CNN anchor Jake Tapper plus the usual in-depth 'Swamp Talk' annotations by R.C. Harvey, spectacular samples of Kelly's work scanned from original art, and a whole lot more!
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Volume 6 presents all 104 Sunday Pogo strips from 1959-1960 in full-color for the first time since their original appearance. Albert Alligator and Beauregard Bugleboy fend off a man-from-Mars, and Howland Owl investigates Communist espionage in the postal system. Then, its election time and Okefenokee Swamp gets a new presidential candidate, Fremount the Bugboy, sparking a political debate about just who can be president - maybe even a woman! With an introduction by Jim 'Garfield' Davis and supplementary features by comics historians R.C. Harvey, Maggie Thompson, and Mark Evanier.
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Collects the years 1963 and 1964 of the classic newspaper strip whose political satire feels more timely than ever. Using the platform of Pogo, Walt Kelly tackled many of the sociopolitical issues of his day: the Red Scare, civil rights, the environment, consumerism. But the strip is also a joyous, poignant, beautifully drawn, and occasionally profound work of 20th-century popular culture. Each volume contains two full years of restored black-and-white daily strips plus all 104 Sundays from the same period. For the first time since their original appearance more than 50 years ago, the Sundays are in full, glorious color.
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Walt Kelly's Peter Wheat comics are renowned for their humor, artistic flair and appeal to both children and adults. Between 1948 and 1951, Kelly drew thirty-five issues of The Adventures of Peter Wheat, a sixteen page comic book given away to bakeries to promote Peter Wheat bread. The stories were fairy tales starring Peter Wheat, an elf-sized boy who lived in a hollow tree on the edge of a wheat field where he and the Little Folk battle Dragonel, Queen of the Hornets, and later The Wizard. Continuing in their reprint of the rare and never before collected Peter Wheat, Hermes Press' Walt Kelly's Peter Wheat the Complete Series: Volume Two collects issues #15-25!
