Walt's Kelly, 1955, The Pogo Peek-A-Book, Simon and Schuster. Our story begins at the home of Mother Goose, where, among other things, we learn the words to "Fearless Fred the Footpad Dread." Also there's an informed discussion of who wrote Shakespeare's sonnets, Marlowe or Bacon. The story concludes with a quick mathematics lesson. Mother Goose is played by Albert Alligator, and Pogo plays an itinerant piano player.
The next story is entitled Gore Blimey: the Bloody Drip Writhes Again. Albert Alligator plays the hard-boiled detective.
Next, an illustrated version of A Frog He Would A-wooing Go. This is one of two versions of the story that Kelly wrote. The second immediately follows the first, but the two are quite different from one another. The first purports to be the original, and the second is in the form of a play put on by some of the denizens of the swamp.
Next is a parable entitled Glory, named using the definition of the word promulgated by Humpty Dumpty. The tale is rather sweet.
This is followed by a mashup of Madison Avenue and the Soviet Union. Starring a familiar cast. This is my favorite story in the book.
Reprinted in 1977 by Gregg Press in hardback. Gregg Press reprinted 10 of the old Pogo books, but I only have three of them.
