Four Color #105

Walt Kelly's signature Okefenokee charm is on full display in this 1946 Dell ten-center, as Albert the Alligator strums a banjo with cheerful abandon — red umbrella tucked overhead, polka-dot bow tie smartly knotted — while little Pogo Possum poles their small boat through the swamp waters below. Kelly's linework is warm and expressive, giving both characters an irresistible personality that made this duo a genuine delight of mid-1940s funny-animal comics. A fine slice of swamp-country whimsy, all written, drawn, and inked by Kelly himself.