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ISSUE SUMMARY

Publisher: Hermes Press
Title: Walt Kelly's Pogo
Page Count: 216
Genre: Anthropomorphic-funny Animals, Humor
Era: Modern
Cover Price: 60.00 USD
Cover Date: February 2016
UPC: 978161345101456000
ISBN: 978-1-61345-101-4
Country: United States
Howland fights a war with himself over his house rent; A strange concoction of assorted fairy tales and nursery rhymes: "Ol' Mother Hubbard", "The Traveling Musicians", and "The Pied Piper of Hamlin" among others; Churchy, Howland and Bull Weevil go searching for a peaner [peanut] brittle mine, but end up sinking their own swamp barge.; Pogo gets caught in a bear trap, and Howland and Churchy assume it to be Barnstable's teeth; 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; 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; Pogo and Albert acting out "Little Red Riding Hood" with Pogo playing Riding Hood, Albert playing the wolf, Beauregard posing as a man guiding Riding Hood along, and the ladybug as Riding Hood's mother; First Albert, then Pogo tell the story of Old Mother Hubbard; Due to several misunderstandings Albert ends up wearing Miz Beaver's lacy underwear; Acting out the three pigs story, Churchy burns his straw house, Howland makes the others build a house of sticks, and Albert fights a board, ending up tearing down his brick house; Albert and Rackety Coon Chile go bird watching and try saving the heron child from Seminole Sam; Albert gets stuck in the music professor's bass horn, and is mistaken for an elephant; The three children disguised as old men, try tricking a blueberry pie off Albert; It takes but seven persons to put out a cooking fire; Albert eats a concoction of carrots and cotton, Pogo's soap and water, and the pickings up from Pogo's floor; Albert acts out Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky"; A lifeboat drill [quite literally]; Albert reading the news in the dark; The protagonists try to convince a worm to go fishing with them; Churchy painting a portrait of Pogo; Churchy catches the frog's fishing hook; Pogo mistakes Albert's tail for a water melon; Pup Dog chases the mouse, hiding in a pair of trousers; Albert shoots an apple core from Pogo's head; Pup Dog ends up catching the big fish, while Beauregard only catches Pup Dog's small bone; Churchy tries to catch the cricket, but ends up catching himself; Albert ends up shooting his mirror image; The frog swallows Alabaster's and Rackety Coon Chile's ping pong ball; Porky needs a new nut for his car engine, being the squirrel turning the wheels; Albert tries blowing out the three candles on his birthday cake