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| Author: | uberboy [ Tue Aug 05, 2008 11:23 am ] |
| Post subject: | Walt Kelly's Pogo Figures, Japan 1969 |
Walt Kelly's comic strip Pogo was set in the swamp. It's a very smart strip and I highly reccommend it. These are Pogo figures stamped on each foot with 1969, Japan. All of them are opposable at the neck. 2 can move both arms, 2 can move only one arm each, and 2 only the neck.   Beauregard Chaulmoogra Frontenac de Montmingle Bugleboy (aka Beauregard Hound) and Churchill "Churchy" LaFemme  Dr. Howland Owl and Porky Pine  Albert Alligator and Pogo Possum This is the whole set of 6 as far as I know. |
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| Author: | Dean [ Tue Aug 05, 2008 1:20 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Walt Kelly's Pogo Figures, Japan 1969 |
Wow, fascinating that these even exist. I missed out on Pogo but as I understand it was largely brilliant satire of American society and politics. Or am I wrong and the satire was more universal than that? Anyway, cool toys, cool post. |
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| Author: | uberboy [ Tue Aug 05, 2008 1:34 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Walt Kelly's Pogo Figures, Japan 1969 |
 
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| Author: | joshuajh [ Tue Aug 05, 2008 1:40 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Walt Kelly's Pogo Figures, Japan 1969 |
those figures are pretty wild. such a cool, kooky style! |
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| Author: | uberboy [ Tue Aug 05, 2008 1:46 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Walt Kelly's Pogo Figures, Japan 1969 |
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| Author: | cs22collect [ Tue Aug 05, 2008 2:31 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Walt Kelly's Pogo Figures, Japan 1969 |
Great figures........... I have a set also......... love them |
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| Author: | dr_tongues_toys [ Tue Aug 05, 2008 6:34 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Walt Kelly's Pogo Figures, Japan 1969 |
Made in Japan - Readily available on the US. They were laundry soap premiums - I think they were shrink wrapped to the box. Cheer if I am not mistaken. There was also a series of plastic cups with the characters on them also. |
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| Author: | ribbon controller [ Tue Aug 05, 2008 10:41 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Walt Kelly's Pogo Figures, Japan 1969 |
wow! I gotta grab a set of these they would fit in perfectly with all my cereal toys |
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| Author: | Yuck!!! [ Wed Aug 06, 2008 12:10 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Walt Kelly's Pogo Figures, Japan 1969 |
I love how rough the sculpts are. |
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| Author: | KJB [ Thu Aug 07, 2008 5:24 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Walt Kelly's Pogo Figures, Japan 1969 |
dr_tongues_toys wrote: Made in Japan - Readily available on the US. They were laundry soap premiums - I think they were shrink wrapped to the box. Cheer if I am not mistaken. There was also a series of plastic cups with the characters on them also. Yep - I had a set of these when I was a kid. Dean, you should really check out the comic strips; they're amazing both in terms of graphics and themes. Supposedly Fantagraphics is going to be reissuing them in much the same way they're doing the Peanuts, Krazy Kat et al. volumes. Check it out: http://www.pogopossum.com/index.htm |
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| Author: | leadster [ Thu Aug 07, 2008 6:28 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Walt Kelly's Pogo Figures, Japan 1969 |
Holy mackerel, what a blast from the past! I remember having an Albert Alligator growing up. I think I chewed the heck out him though. Thanks for the memories UberB. |
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| Author: | cae [ Thu Aug 07, 2008 8:14 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Walt Kelly's Pogo Figures, Japan 1969 |
I, too, had a set of these as a kid (chewed on Howland Owl - odd, that) and have also re-collected them as an adult. I, also recommend the original strips (avoid those not done by Walt, however). Fantagraphics did some reprintings a while back - they seem to be out of print, though! Great stuff! |
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| Author: | liquidsky [ Thu Aug 07, 2008 10:09 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Walt Kelly's Pogo Figures, Japan 1969 |
Wow. Trip down memory lane. I had a collection of these as a kid. I think my mother later sold them at some yard sale. |
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| Author: | Greasebat [ Thu Aug 07, 2008 10:18 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Walt Kelly's Pogo Figures, Japan 1969 |
I had the turtle as a child, thats it. probably started my love for vinyl figures.. |
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| Author: | Greg Mishka [ Sun Aug 10, 2008 5:42 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Walt Kelly's Pogo Figures, Japan 1969 |
I have Churchill "Churchy" LaFemme always wondered what it was! thanks! |
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| Author: | Zaaier [ Sun Aug 10, 2008 10:36 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Walt Kelly's Pogo Figures, Japan 1969 |
Very cool figures. What's not to like about a toy that can only move 1 arm. |
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| Author: | poysntixels [ Mon Aug 11, 2008 10:11 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Walt Kelly's Pogo Figures, Japan 1969 |
Grew up reading the strip, collected (and lost all but 1) the books. Thanks for showing these! Who remembers the great caricatures of McCarthy (there's a tyrant for Mr. Kozik!) , LBJ , Nixon and Agnew the Jackal? Great stuff. Kelley was influenced in his younger years by a great forgotten cartoonist, one T. S. Sullivant. He drew great cows and Irish! Whoops, off track. Great collection! |
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| Author: | SpankyStokes [ Thu Aug 14, 2008 12:07 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Walt Kelly's Pogo Figures, Japan 1969 |
Modern day...Kozik Chumps meets Tootsi Roll Tootsi Pop characters! These figures posted are classic! 
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| Author: | atease [ Fri Aug 15, 2008 10:51 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Walt Kelly's Pogo Figures, Japan 1969 |
these are the best figures I've seen posted on the board in a long time. thanks for sharing them! I'm a big Pogo fan.
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| Author: | vintagevinyl [ Sat Aug 23, 2008 3:42 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Walt Kelly's Pogo Figures, Japan 1969 |
 these are the poynter versions ( the skunk and the owl ) but walt kelly hated them . |
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| Author: | Zaaier [ Sun Aug 24, 2008 12:05 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Walt Kelly's Pogo Figures, Japan 1969 |
Kinda like that skunk. It looks silly but demented. |
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