Pogo Possum
#8
(January-March 1952)
Dell,
1949 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- quarterly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Dell Publishing Co., Inc.
- Brand
- A Dell Comic
- Editing
- Chase Craig
- Color
- Color
- Dimensions
- Standard Golden Age U.S.
[no title indexed]
Pogo / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Walt Kelly
- Inks
- Walt Kelly
- Colors
- ?
- Characters
- Pogo; Albert
- Reprints
-
in Walt Kelly's Pogo (Hermes Press, 2014 series) #4 (2016), #6 ([October] 2018)
-
[The Portrait]
Pogo / comic story / 1 page
- Script
- Walt Kelly
- Pencils
- Walt Kelly
- Inks
- Walt Kelly
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Churchy Lafemme; Pogo Possum
- Synopsis
- Churchy painting a portrait of Pogo
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Pantomime story, on inside front cover
Cinderella and the Three Bears
Pogo / comic story / 11 pages
- Script
- Walt Kelly
- Pencils
- Walt Kelly
- Inks
- Walt Kelly
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Albert Alligator; Pogo Possum; three bug children; Barnstable Bear; Missus Bear; Baby Bear; Churchy Lafemme; Howland Owl; Ol' Mouse
- Synopsis
- Albert telling the fairy tale of Cinderola to Pogo and the bug children, with Pogo acting as Cinderola, the three bears as Cinderola's stepmother and stepsisters, Churchy as the King's page, Howland as Cinderola's furry godmother, and Albert as the prince
- Reprints
Berried Treasure
Albert / comic story / 8 pages
- Script
- Walt Kelly
- Pencils
- Walt Kelly
- Inks
- Walt Kelly
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Rackety Coon Chile; Alabaster; Turtle Chile; Albert Alligator
- Synopsis
- The three children disguised as old men, try tricking a blueberry pie off Albert
- Reprints
The Boastful Bird
text story / 2 pages
- Script
- Walt Kelly
- Pencils
- Walt Kelly (spot illustrations)
- Inks
- Walt Kelly (spot illustrations)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Seminole Sam; Wiley Catt; Reginald (a turkey)
- Reprints
The Big Rock Candy Quarry
Pogo / comic story / 11 pages
- Script
- Walt Kelly
- Pencils
- Walt Kelly
- Inks
- Walt Kelly
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Albert Alligator; Rackety Coon Chile; Pogo Possum; Beauregard Bugleboy; Seminole Sam; Churchy Lafemme
- Synopsis
- Rackety Coon Chile and Pogo find sheet music for the song "The Big Rock Candy Mountain" in Albert's trunk, and Albert sets out to find the mountain in order to become a millionaire. Seminole Sam sells him a pile of garbage, claiming it to be rock candy in disguise
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Meta-gag on page 3. Albert: "Us got a couple miles of jollity to romp through before us is clear of this comic book."
[Churchy's Fishing Trip]
Pogo / comic story / 1 page
- Script
- Walt Kelly
- Pencils
- Walt Kelly
- Inks
- Walt Kelly
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Churchy Lafemme; a frog
- Synopsis
- Churchy catches the frog's fishing hook
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Pantomime story, on inside back cover
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
Pogo -
1.
[The Portrait]
Pogo -
2.
Cinderella and the Three Bears
Pogo -
3.
Berried Treasure
Albert -
4.
The Boastful Bird
-
5.
The Big Rock Candy Quarry
Pogo -
6.
[Churchy's Fishing Trip]
Pogo -
7.
[Albert and the Watermelons]
Pogo
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