Walt Kelly, 1961, Pogo a la Sundae, Simon and Schuster, paperback. Featuring Australia and the Two egg Candidates. Another book composed of Sunday comic strips, which were originally published in color in newspapers. In the book, they are black and white.
An out of date interplanetary Olympic challenge is perpetrated and a reptile is recognized as a juvenile mammal. The scheme was put into action by a secret agent mouse.
The games are soon interrupted by Santa Claus, or someone resembling him. At least, a sleigh is involved and someone who might be named Fidel. Also bullet holes acquired over Novosibirsk. Flying alligators and mooses are followed by the songs of the turtle (not well received). This book predicts that the world will end on November 13th of this year. We will know soon how accurate that was! Well, there is much more, including an invisible army and unrequited love. I urge you to buy Pogo a la Sundae, (which you can only get used).
Rereading all of these books one right after the other I am noticing some curious facts. For instance, the swamp is full of cut logs against which the denizens often recline. But who logged the Okefenokee? There are never any humans present. Also the cut ends of the logs are sometimes drawn only with concentric circles and other times with concentric circles and radii. These conventions appear to vary among the books.
At the time I wrote this review, you could get this book for $11 including shipping.
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