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Pogo's Bats and the Belles Free
by Walter "Walt" Crawford Kelly, Jr (1913-1973)
- Used
- Very Good
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0671223933
- ISBN 13
- 9780671223939
- Seller
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About This Item
121 pages with comic illustrations. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's pictorial wrappers. Edited by Selby Kelly First edition.
Walter Crawford Kelly Jr, or Walt Kelly, was an American animator and cartoonist, best known for the comic strip Pogo. He began his animation career in 1936 at Walt Disney Studios, contributing to Pinocchio, Fantasia, and Dumbo. Kelly resigned in 1941 at the age of 28 to work at Dell Comics, where he created Pogo, which eventually became his platform for political and philosophical commentary. The Pogo comic strip was syndicated to newspapers for 26 years. The individual strips were collected into at least 20 books edited by Kelly. He received the Reuben Award for the series in 1951. The principal characters were Pogo the Possum, Albert the Alligator, Churchy LaFemme, a turtle, Howland Owl, Beauregard (Houndog), Porkypine, and Miz Mamzelle Hepzibah, a French skunk. Kelly used the strip in part as a vehicle for his liberal and humanistic political and social views and satirized, among other things, Senator Joseph McCarthy's anti-Communist demagogy (in the form of a shotgun-wielding bobcat named "Simple J. Malarkey") and the sectarian and dogmatic behavior of Communists in the form of two comically doctrinaire cowbirds.
Condition:
Price darkened out, corners gently bumped light edge wear and soiling else a very good copy.
Walter Crawford Kelly Jr, or Walt Kelly, was an American animator and cartoonist, best known for the comic strip Pogo. He began his animation career in 1936 at Walt Disney Studios, contributing to Pinocchio, Fantasia, and Dumbo. Kelly resigned in 1941 at the age of 28 to work at Dell Comics, where he created Pogo, which eventually became his platform for political and philosophical commentary. The Pogo comic strip was syndicated to newspapers for 26 years. The individual strips were collected into at least 20 books edited by Kelly. He received the Reuben Award for the series in 1951. The principal characters were Pogo the Possum, Albert the Alligator, Churchy LaFemme, a turtle, Howland Owl, Beauregard (Houndog), Porkypine, and Miz Mamzelle Hepzibah, a French skunk. Kelly used the strip in part as a vehicle for his liberal and humanistic political and social views and satirized, among other things, Senator Joseph McCarthy's anti-Communist demagogy (in the form of a shotgun-wielding bobcat named "Simple J. Malarkey") and the sectarian and dogmatic behavior of Communists in the form of two comically doctrinaire cowbirds.
Condition:
Price darkened out, corners gently bumped light edge wear and soiling else a very good copy.
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- Bookseller
- The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BOOKS004401
- Title
- Pogo's Bats and the Belles Free
- Author
- Walter "Walt" Crawford Kelly, Jr (1913-1973)
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0671223933
- ISBN 13
- 9780671223939
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1976
- Keywords
- HUMOR
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
- Size
- Octavo
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