Reposted by Spuds Turtle
The Pogo comic strip by Walt Kelly debuted on October 4, 1948, in the New York Star. It ran until the paper folded in January 1949, but the strip was picked up for national distribution in May 1949. Before the strip, Kelly had written and drawn the characters in Dell comic books since 1941.
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