1.) Pogo Christmas Sunday page
Dec. 24th, 1967, signed, 59,5 x 40,3 cm
€ 16.500.- ($ 22,770)
I have bought this page in 2003 from Bruce Hamilton who had bought it from the Walt Kelly estate through Sotheby’s auction house in the late 1990’s. It comes with a signed “Letter of Attestation” by Hamilton and with a piece of cardboard that was originally attached to the back of the frame. It says: “For Ann, with love, and many, many thanks from Stephanie, Steven, Andrew, John and Walt… Christmas 1967”. The art -in its final form as hand-colored by Kelly- is reproduced in Brian Walker’s book, The Comics Since 1945 and appears full page in the tabloid (vertical) format, achieved by dropping the middle panel. This beautiful Christmas page is thought to be the only Pogo Sunday page Walt Kelly ever hand-colored.
July 9th, 1949, second year! signed twice, 40,5 x 11,6 cm, a bit yellowing, dailies from the 1940’s are extremely rare!
€ 1.230.- ($ 1,695)
1959, signed, 35,7 x 49,5 cm
€ 5.700.- ($ 7,870)
March 3rd, 1967, signed, 47 x 13 cm, featuring P. T. Bridgeport and his great speech ballons!
no longer available!
beautiful nonsense / poem page for the paperback Pogo’s Sunday Punch, 1957, 25,6 x 34 cm
€ 500.- ($ 690)
6.) Pogo Sunday page
Aug. 3rd, 1969, signed, 59,3 x 40,2 cm
€ 1.430.- ($ 1,975)
In this beautiful Sunday with its gorgeous first panel Kelly refers to George Herriman’s famous Krazy Kat strip.
...featuring Krushchev as a pig and Bulganin as a parrot! Oct. 17th, 1956, signed, 41,5 x 11,6 cm
€ 540.- ($ 745)
Feb. 17th, 1957, signed, 59,6 x 40,7 cm
€ 990.- ($ 1,366)
Dec. 16, 1956, signed, 59,5 x 40,8 cm
€ 990.- ($ 1,366)
1972, set up of an original background and the matching cel with Churchy for this rarely seen 12 minutes promotional film (there is also a 24 minutes film!), cel was made by fixing a drawing on paper between two pieces of foil, very rare! 24 x 22 cm
€ 550.- ($ 759)
March 14, 1954, signed, 59,7 x 40,5 cm
€ 990.- ($ 1,366)
1953, one third of page 8 from Thud and Blunder, a story for the comic book series, 24,3 x 11 cm
€ 150.- ($ 207)
Oct. 5th, 1958, signed, 59,6 x 40,5 cm (music business…)
€ 1.100.- ($ 1,518)
Nov. 5th, 1959, signed, 47,3 x 13,3 cm
€ 430.- ($ 593)
15.) The Grasshopper and the Ant
complete six-page-story published in Pogo Possum #3, 1950, very early Pogo art and only the second complete Pogo story ever available on the market, each page measures 25,2 x 35,2 cm
€ 1.850.- ($ 2,554)
April 3, 1967 ("prehysterical"), signed, 47 x 13 cm
€ 470.- ($ 651)
Sept. 27, 1953 (!), 59,5 x 40,5 cm
€ 1.150.- ($ 1,587)
“Special 1 “, 1964, rare! signed, 41,3 x 11,5 cm
€ 480.- ($ 662)
This is the complete first story for Pogo Possum #1, published in October 1949! a classic! rare! 9 pages à 27,5 x 39,5 cm
€ 8.690.- ($ 11,992)