{"product_id":"pogo-evidence-to-the-contrary-the-complete-syndicated-comic-strips-volume-3","title":"POGO EVIDENCE TO THE CONTRARY THE Complete Syndicated Comic Strips Volume 3","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWalt Kelly\u003c\/strong\u003e takes on Senator Joseph McCarthy in the form of wildcat \"Simple J. Malarkey\" (a controversial move at the time) and more in this collection of years 1953-1954 of the seminal mid-century newspaper strip.\n\nIt's in this volume (featuring another two years' worth of Pogo strips) that we meet one of Walt Kelly's boldest political caricatures. Folks across America had little trouble equating the insidious wildcat Simple J. Malarkey with the ascendant anti-Communist senator, Joseph McCarthy. The subject was sensitive enough that by the following year a Providence, Rhode Island newspaper threatened to drop the strip if Malarkey's face were to appear in it again. Kelly's response? He had Malarkey appear again but put a bag over the character's head for his next appearance. Ergo, his face did not appear. (Typical of Kelly's layers of verbal wit, the character Malarkey was hiding from was a \"Rhode Island Red\" hen, referencing both the source of his need to conceal Malarkey and the underlying political controversy.)\n\nIn addition to presenting all of 1953 and 1954's daily strips complete and in order for the first time anywhere (many of them once again scanned from original syndicate proofs, for their crispest and most detailed appearance ever), Pogo Volume 3: \"\u003cem\u003eEvidence to the Contrary\"\u003c\/em\u003e also contains all 104 Sunday strips from these two years, presented in lush full color for the first time since their original appearance in Sunday sections 60 years ago — plus the usual in-depth \"Swamp Talk\" historical annotations by \u003cstrong\u003eR.C. Harvey\u003c\/strong\u003e, spectacular samples of Kelly's work scanned from original art, and a whole lot more!\n\nBeautiful blue cloth cover under the illustrated dust jacket.\n\n\u003cstrong\u003eOut of Print.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eCondition: Very Fine. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fantagraphics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59640477745438,"sku":"RB4271","price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0999\/0684\/7006\/files\/RB4271-pogo-evidence-contrary-vol3.jpg?v=1784498552","url":"https:\/\/shop.budsartbooks.com\/products\/pogo-evidence-to-the-contrary-the-complete-syndicated-comic-strips-volume-3","provider":"Bud's Art Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}