Happy Easter! EASTER WITH MOTHER GOOSE "Easter Egg Party!"

For All Those Who Couldn't Afford to Have One Themselves...

...a classic tale written and illustrated by Walt (Pogo) Kelly with a gentle moral message!

What's the moral?

You decide!
It's there!

A never-reprinted tale from Dell's Four Color Comics: Easter with Mother Goose #140 (1947)

Happy

Easter

Good Friday Fun / Easter Reading Room EASTER WITH MOTHER GOOSE Featurettes #2

Since We're Almost to Easter, here's a few more short pieces from Walt (Pogo) Kelly...

...including an obligatory one based on a classic nursery rhyme adapted for the holiday...

...and a couple of gentle, sweet ones!

Be Here Easter Sunday, When Mother Goose Hosts an Easter Party with Guests Galore!

Easter Reading Room EASTER WITH MOTHER GOOSE Featurettes

Here's several shorts showcasing Walt (Pogo) Kelly's Versatility...

...and they didn't always feature fairy tale or nursery rhyme characters!

But, could we run a post like this without at least one nursery rhyme adapted to the season?

Hell, no!

From Dell's Four Color Comics' #185 (1948) & #229 (1949)

Holiday Reading Room SANTA CLAUS FUNNIES "Fir Tree"

For Our Final Yuletide-Themed Post of 2024...

...we thought we'd present a tale of a Christmas Tree by a master storyteller...Hans Christian Anderson!

Walt (Pogo) Kelly both adapted the story and illustrated it for Dell's Santa Claus Funnies #1 (1942).

SANTA CLAUS FUNNIES "There's a Santa..."

Here's a kool one pager...

...written and illustrated by Walt (Pogo) Kelly from Dell's Four Color Comics #91 (1945) aka "Santa Claus Funnies"!

Until Christmas, we'll be presenting various Yultide-related items, some will be one or two-pagers like this, some will be longer, even multi-part stories.

Have a seat, get a mug of hot chocolate, and enjoy!

Monday Madness CHRISTMAS WITH MOTHER GOOSE "Little Boy Blue and Little Girl Green

Here's another early example of a "mash-up"...

...putting existing nursery rhyme characters into a Christmas setting to create new tales!

Written and illustrated by Walt (Pogo) Kelly, this never-reprinted tale from the final Christmas with Mother Goose anthology (Dell's Four Color #253 [1949]) adds new characters that didn't exist in the nursery rhyme.

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Monday Madness CHRISTMAS WITH MOTHER GOOSE "Miss Cross Patch on Christmas Eve"

Unlike this Goldilocks story, which adapted an existing fairy tale into an Easter setting...

...this is a classic nursery rhyme, greatly expanded and enhanced by Walt (Pogo) Kelly for Christmastime!

From Dell's Four Color Comics #253 aka Christmas with Mother Goose (1949), written and illustrated by Walt (Pogo) Kelly.
For the remainder of the holiday season, we'll present stories (many never-reprinted) from this oversized holiday annual which ran from 1945 through 1949 every Monday!

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Friday Holiday Fun CHRISTMAS WITH MOTHER GOOSE "Christmas Alphabet"

Nobody did Christmas-themed comics better than the legendary Walt (Pogo) Kelly...

...as this never-reprinted piece from Dell's Four Color Comics #201 (1948), one of the annual Christmas with Mother Goose anthologies, proves!

Yeah, it is difficult to find something Yuletide-related that begins with "Z"...any suggestions?

Christmas with Mother Goose was an ongoing annual from 1945 through 49.

It apparently ended when Walt Kelly left Dell to work full-time on his new Pogo newspaper strip.

But Dell continued to do Yuletide annuals with a Frosty the Snowman series from 1951 to 1961 as well as continuing an already-ongoing line of Kris Kringle-themed Santa Claus Funnies running from 1944 through 1961!

(In early 1962 Dell Comics broke up into two companies, the already-established Dell, which had really just handled distribution, and Gold Key Comics, which had handled the editorial and art production chores, but not newsstand distribution.

This left Dell, which had to build a comics editorial division from scratch, without the resources to continue the Christmas-themed annuals.)

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Monday Madness / Holiday Reading Room CHRISTMAS WITH MOTHER GOOSE "3 Christmas Bears"

A Christmas-themed variation on a classic fairy tale...

...as told by Walt (Pogo) Kelly!

Told with charm and finesse, this never-reprinted tale from Dell's Four Color #253 (1949) aka Christmas with Mother Goose, was one of a number of already-existing stories Kelly wittily-modified to fit the Yuletide season.

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