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Lot 679: The Walt Kelly Pogo File (18)

ITEM DESCRIPTION

 
Reserve: $100.00
Winning Bid: $245.82
Price Realized: $293.75
Auction Date:8/28/2006 9:00 PM EST

One of the most important cartoonists in our nation's history, where strip cartoons took on a political element. He even had a Joseph McCarthy, character Simple J. Malarkey. Photos include: cover still for Pogo Extra, three NBC stills for 1970 The Pogo Special Birthday Special, Pogo Primer for Parents (1961), Kelly and Alex Raymond with President Eisenhower (1955), Person to Person with Edward R. Murrow (1953), Pogo Party political convention (1958), 1957 newspaper contest, 1954 promo still, controversial Khrushchev and Castro cartoon (1962), and from his death and strip retirement (2). Average 7x9" and EX-MT. Best of all are four 1958 newspaper strip b/w posters used for promotion (average 20x12").

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