Pogo Possum
#6
(July-September 1951)
Dell,
1949 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- quarterly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
- Brand
-
A Dell Comic
- Editing
- Helen Meyer (editor)
[no title indexed]
Pogo / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Pogo Possum; Albert Alligator
- Reprints
-
in The Rocket's Blast-Comicollector (The S. F. C. A., 1964 ? series) #124 (January 1976) [black and white] - in Walt Kelly's Pogo (Hermes Press, 2014 series) #3 (2015), #6 ([October] 2018)
-
Uncle Albert's Bedtime Story
Albert / text story / 2 pages
- Script
- Walt Kelly
- Pencils
- Walt Kelly (spot illustrations)
- Inks
- Walt Kelly (spot illustrations)
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Albert Alligator; Rackety Coon Chile; Alabaster
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Printed in black and white, on inside covers
The Puzzle Master
Albert / comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Alabaster; Rackety Coon Chile; Albert Alligator; Churchy Lafemme (cameo); Pogo Possum (cameo)
- Synopsis
- Alabaster and Rackety Coon Chile trick Albert into extreme foolery using the instructions for a jig-saw puzzle
- Reprints
The Howl and the Pussycat
Pogo / comic story / 10 pages
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Pogo Possum; Howland Owl; Churchy Lafemme; Albert Alligator; an unnamed pig
- Synopsis
- Howland and Churchy act out the children's rhyme "The Owl and the Pussycat"
- Reprints
How To Be Prepared (Delicious-Like)
Pogo / comic story / 9 pages
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Albert Alligator; Pogo Possum; a flying fish
- Synopsis
- Albert tries tricking the fish into being part of his supper
- Reprints
- in The Fort Mudge Most (Spring Hollow Books, 1988 ? series) #33 [reprint in black and white]
- in Walt Kelly's Pogo (Hermes Press, 2014 series) #3 (2015)
-
Indexer Notes
Prime piece of Kelly nonsense. The fish is wise to Albert from the start, but plays along with the plot. Kelly satirizes on paper shortage, page cuts, and wordy comic book features (including the present one) on pages 2-5
The Spin of the Yarn
Pogo / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Beauregard Bugleboy; Porkypine; Pup Dog; Churchy Lafemme; Howland Owl; Chug-Chug Curtis; Rackety Coon Chile; Albert Alligator
- Synopsis
- Reenactment of the "Chicken Little" story with Pup Dog acting the part of Chicken Little, and the cast in general playing along, Albert being the King
- Reprints
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
[no title indexed]
Pogo -
1.
Uncle Albert's Bedtime Story
Albert -
2.
The Puzzle Master
Albert -
3.
The Howl and the Pussycat
Pogo -
4.
How To Be Prepared (Delicious-Like)
Pogo -
5.
The Spin of the Yarn
Pogo -
6.
Jiffy Air Trumpet
Albert
This issue was modified by, among others
- Peter Croome
- Gregory Fischer
- Merlin Haas
- Claus Simonsen
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