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Animal Comics

    (Dell, 1941-1947)
™ and ©1946 Oskar Lebeck

Animal Comics, one of the many “funny-books” for young kids from the 1940s, introduced one of the endearing classics of the funny animal world, Walt Kelly’s Pogo the Possum. Pogo, a playful and surprisingly cunning possum, and his pals Albert the Alligator, Owl, and Churchy Turtle, inhabit the wacky world of Okeefenokee Swamp and speak in the laconic drawl of the bayou. Kelly and other contributors played Pogo strictly for laughs during the first few years in Animal Comics, but when the strip was picked up for syndication in newspaper comic sections, Pogo took on an epic allegorical and sociological dimension, and is considered one of the great satirical works of the century.

The surrounding features in Animal Comics didn’t live up to the high standards of Pogo, but served up the usual light entertainment that the funny animal genre dependably provided.
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  • 1
    #1
    Dec 1942
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Walt Kelly  ·  A: Walt Kelly
    1st Appearance of Pogo
    No copies available
  • 2
    #2
    Feb 1943
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    W: Walt Kelly  ·  A: Walt Kelly
    Uncle Wiggly starts
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  • 3
    #3
    Jun 1943
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    W: Walt Kelly, Justin Gruelle, Marjorie Barrows  ·  A: Walt Kelly, Justin Gruelle, Robert Graefa, Marjorie Barrows
    No copies available
  • 4
    #4
    Aug 1943
    Cover: $0.10
    No Pogo
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  • 5
    #5
    Oct 1943
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    W: Walt Kelly  ·  A: Walt Kelly
    Pogo and Albert appear in the Wiggly story
    No copies available
  • 6
    #6
    Dec 1943
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    W: Howard R. Garis, Tom Hickey, Marjorie Barrows  ·  A: Howard R. Garis, Tom Hickey, Marjorie Barrows, Justin Gruelle, Arthur Jamison
    No Pogo
    No copies available
  • 7
    #7
    Feb 1944
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    A: Walt Kelly
    No Pogo
    No copies available
  • 8
    #8
    Apr 1944
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    W: Walt Kelly  ·  A: Walt Kelly
    No copies available
  • 9
    #9
    Wiggily War Bonds cover
    Jun 1944
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    W: Walt Kelly  ·  A: Walt Kelly
    No copies available
  • 10
    #10
    Aug 1944
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    W: Walt Kelly  ·  A: Walt Kelly
    No copies available
  • 11
    #11
    Children’s comic cover featuring cigarette smoking
    Oct 1944
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    W: Walt Kelly  ·  A: Walt Kelly
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  • 12
    #12
    Dec 1944
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    W: Walt Kelly  ·  A: Walt Kelly
    No copies available
  • 13
    #13
    Feb 1945
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    W: Walt Kelly  ·  A: Walt Kelly
    No copies available
  • 14
    #14
    First Churchy LeFemme cover
    Apr 1945
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    W: Walt Kelly  ·  A: Walt Kelly
    No copies available
  • 15
    #15
    Jun 1945
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    W: Walt Kelly  ·  A: Walt Kelly
    No copies available
  • 16
    #16
    First Pogo cover (in background)
    Aug 1945
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    W: Walt Kelly  ·  A: Walt Kelly
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  • 17
    #17
    First all Pogo/Albert Cover
    Oct 1945
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    W: Walt Kelly  ·  A: Walt Kelly
    No copies available
  • 18
    #18
    Dec 1945
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    W: Walt Kelly  ·  A: Walt Kelly
    No copies available
  • 19
    #19
    Feb 1946
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    W: Walt Kelly  ·  A: Walt Kelly
    1 copy for $17.00
  • 20
    #20
    Albert the Aligator chases Uncle Wiggily on back cover
    Apr 1946
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    W: Walt Kelly  ·  A: Walt Kelly
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  • 21
    #21
    Jun 1946
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    W: Howard R. Garis, Walt Kelly  ·  A: Howard R. Garis, Walt Kelly
    No copies available
  • 22
    #22
    Aug 1946
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    W: Howard R. Garis, Walt Kelly  ·  A: Howard R. Garis, Walt Kelly
    No copies available
  • 23
    #23
    Oct 1946
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    W: Walt Kelly  ·  A: Walt Kelly
    No copies available
  • 24
    #24
    Dec 1946
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    W: Walt Kelly  ·  A: Walt Kelly
    First Jigger
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  • 25
    #25
    Feb 1947
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    W: Walt Kelly  ·  A: Walt Kelly
    First Walt Kelly credit on a Pogo story
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  • 26
    #26
    Apr 1947
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    W: Walt Kelly  ·  A: Walt Kelly
    No copies available
  • 27
    #27
    First Rover cover
    Jun 1947
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    W: Walt Kelly  ·  A: Walt Kelly
    1 copy for $11.20
  • 28
    #28
    Aug 1947
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    W: Walt Kelly  ·  A: Walt Kelly
    No copies available
  • 29
    #29
    Oct 1947
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    W: Walt Kelly  ·  A: Walt Kelly
    2 copies from $10.00
  • 30
    #30
    Dec 1947
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Biff, Dan Noonan, Gaylord Du Bois, Harriet Smith Hawley, Howard R. Garis, Walt Kelly  ·  A: Biff, Dan Noonan, Howard R. Garis, Morris Gollub, Walt Kelly
    Final Issue
    No copies available