Giving you double for your money this week. These strips are late in the game in Kelly's life. They are likely reruns or repurposed—I haven't had time to check. Kelly was in a world of hurt at this point with only months to live, so people were pitching in to keep the hoopla hooping.
At the same time, newspapers were downsizing their comic sections and a double tier Pogo strip just wasn't what the doctor ordered.
January 28, 1973
February 4, 1973
1st:
ReplyDeleteThanks for this double post, Thom!
2nd: Both strips had been used earlier (with 'Kelly-tree' panels for lead-ins) in 1963: January 27 and February 3
Hun
Thanks, Hun! Those original dates would have been just a few months before I started collecting the strips from the Sunday paper. Such a looonng time ago!
DeleteThom,
ReplyDeletemy impression is that all of the '73 Sunday strips were re-usals. At least all 30-some that I have found on the Internet (spread between Jan 14 and Dec 30) have earlier appearances in '63.
Hun
I figured something like that...thanks,Hun! If I run a few of those, they'll still seem 'new' to most of us.
DeletePlease, DO! They will be new to me, too; because most of the stuff I have is just b/w, collected as microfilm reproductions and double tier.
DeleteAnd for your info: All`73 dailes up to the end of September were re-usals from `57, `58 and `59. I`m still trying to check the rest, but from mid-Oct onwards there are new actors in the strips and Pogo at least does not look like his old self to me any more.
Small wonder considering WK`s bad health and death then mid-Sept
Hun