Post your Pogos / Walt Kelly Books! 5 5

[OtherEric]

Here's a few Peter Wheat issues:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I've got more, but those are the ones where I have the raw scans handy at the moment...

[Point Five]

I love Walt Kelly's work, both on Pogo and on the WDCS covers. (I've tried to hold off buying the Fairy Tale Parades, Mother Goose Stories etc but it's probably only a matter of time!)

 

Here's my Pogo #9. Kelly did illustrations for the back covers of these as well. They are really fun books.

 

 

 

 

 

[BB-Gun]

Oh, I have more. Which issue(s) is(are) your file copy(ies) of? I'll scan the others. :thumbsup:

 

 

I thought I read somewhere that some of the painted covers were not by Kelly. Of course, he doesn't need any extra credit. His body of work is substantial. How long did he work for Disney? I heard that he worked on Dumbo, Fantasia and Pinnochio? Any Duck cartoon credits?

[Scrooge]

I am fairly sure the painted ones are not his. They were included as part of the shot but are not Kelly's. Nor is the cover to # 2, or at least I don't see it as Kelly's work. I didn't mean to imply ...

[AJD]

A Kelly a day...

 

 

I could do this for almost three months!

[50YrsCollctngCmcs]

There is no end to the fun I get from seeing his covers! Hopefully someone will post his work from the early DC days, I believe he was in New Comics #1.

[OtherEric]

I'm pretty sure the #2 is Kelly, as well. The painted covers were signed by Arthur Jameson; and the FC 87 isn't a Kelly cover either, but the rest are all his.

 

Not sure if Kelly did anything on Fantasia off the top of my head, I know he worked on the Crows sequence in Dumbo and on Gepetto inside Monstro for Pinocchio. Which makes the comic book version of Pinocchio one of the very comics where one of the animators also drew the comic book. If nobody else beats me to it I'll pull that one out and scan the cover in a day or so.

 

I wouldn't say no to a Kelly cover a day; I don't have that many of his WDC&S's. My current project- other than my continual efforts on Peter Wheat, of course- is trying to put together his Four Color issues.

Edited January 31, 2012 by OtherEric

[Scrooge]

Well then - # 2 -

 

[Montezuma]

[50YrsCollctngCmcs]

Two of the best books in the Four Color series!

[AJD]

Time for a

 

Another title with some great Kelly work was this one:

 

 

GCD gives Kelly as the cover artist.

 

[AJD]

No one else wants to play anymore?

 

Oh well...

 

[adamstrange]

I'm not playing but I am enjoying watching from the sideline.

[Pat Calhoun]

 

[AJD]

 

 

That one was the first Pogo book I ever bought, from a guy in New Zealand on eBay. I didn't know much about Pogo or Walt Kelly but the price was right and it looked cool. Little did I know...

[Point Five]

Here's one of my favorite Kelly duck covers. Nice early one...

 

 

 

[selegue]

Here's one of my favorite Kelly duck covers. Nice early one...

 

 

 

What a gorgeous copy! Mine is cowering in the corner.

 

Not to mention a classic Barks Donald Duck story!

 

 

Duckmite!

 

Jack

 

 

[AJD]

Lovely copy Jon!

 

Sell it to me.

[50YrsCollctngCmcs]

Here is Fairy Tale Parade #7. A great copy from the Racine headquarters of Western Publishing. the back is as much fun as the front. What a great investment of a dime back in 1943!

 

By the way this cost a whole $33. from Heritage a couple of years ago; about $55 after commission and shipping. Still a deal.

 

[Straw-Man]