WALT KELLY'S OUR GANG, Volumes 2, 3 & 4

The Our Gang Comics were a series of comic books featuring Our Gang. Created by Walt Kelly, the series stayed popular from its debut in 1942 until its last issue in 1949. This set of Our Gang goes from 1944-1947. Characters featured included Spanky McFarland, Buckwheat Thomas, Mickey Gubitosi, Froggy Laughlin, Janet Burston, and Happy Laughlin. Much like the Our Gang film series, in the comic series the characters age in real time. As usual, Froggie and the Gang goes through action-paced adventures involving fisticuffs, gunfire, fireworks, and horse thieves! "Kelly continues to take his version of the Gang further away from the typical 'kid-jinks' of the movies. He not only involves them in serious adventures but potentially life-threatening situations...for those of us 'of a certain age,' summers were filled with days when we were pushed out the door after breakfast and told not to come back until lunchtime, after which we were sent out to play until supper. Just like the Gang kids, we wandered out of our neighborhoods, met and interacted with strangers, fought and played with other kids. The Gang's activities are more extreme than those of most of us reading the stories, but only in degree." -Steve Thompson. Condition: Very Fine/As New.