The Jack Acid Society * Black Book - 1st Edition - First Printing F*S

By POGO As told to Walt Kelly *Advice from the Flounder *Boring Within and Without *Blacklist to Starboard *A Mi-nute Man’s Code *18 New Sub-verses Pogo is best known as The Possum from Okeefenokee. He is twelve years old (approximately 120 years in human terms) and has the distinction of never having been a professional boxer, an itinerant fruit picker, a welder, a member of the Armed Services, or a Public Servant. He has traveled widely, having gone to the moon and to Fort Mudge. He belongs to no societies and has never married. This is his first book Walt Kelly invented Pogo. Mr. Kelly has written seventeen books. This is the first time he has been a collaborator. Kelly's career in animation began in 1936 at Walt Disney Studios, where he contributed to Pinocchio and Fantasia. In 1941, Kelly resigned at the age of 28 to work at Dell Comics, where he created Pogo. In the early 1960s, Kelly took on the ultra-conservative John Birch Society with a series of strips dedicated to Mole and Deacon's efforts to weed out Anti-Americanism (as they saw it) in the swamp, which led them to form "The Jack Acid Society." ("Named after Mr. Acid?" "Well, it wasn't named before him.") The reference is to John Birch, who was killed 13 years before the creation (in 1958) of the organization that bears his name. The Jack Acids (the name is an obvious pun on "jackasses") modeled themselves on the only "real" Americans: Indians. Everyone the Jack Acids suspected of not being a true American was put on their blacklist, until eventually everyone but Mole himself was blacklisted. One of the longest-running storylines in the strip's history, the strips were collected by themselves (with some original verse and text pieces) in The Jack Acid Society Black Book, the only Pogo collection not to include the main character's name in the title[13] and one of only two books (the other being Pogo: Prisoner Of Love) to comprise a single storyline. Kelly, Walt THE JACK ACID SOCIETY BLACK BOOK Simon & Schuster New York 1962 1st Edition 1st Printing Softcover 7.8 x 4.8 x .40 Very Good+ in wraps. 96pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] Black and white illustrated wraps. Very good. The extremities are mildly rubbed, and the pages are tanned. Comments Walt Kelly's career in animation began in 1936 at Walt Disney Studios, where he contributed to Pinocchio and Fantasia. In 1941, Kelly resigned at the age of 28 to work at Dell Comics, where he created Pogo. Place Published: New York Publisher: Simon & Schuster Date Published: 1962 Edition: First edition Binding: Paperback