At this time, Pogo appeared much more like a real possum than a cartoon possum, making him almost unrecognizable compared to what Pogo fans know and love today. Even back then, Pogo and his ...

Pogo Possum, Churchy LaFemme, Porky Pine and the rest of the Okefenokee Swamp gang butchered common phrases and skewered current events in the strip nationally syndicated from 1949 to 1975.

There is perhaps no comic strip that has so rapidly won its way into the hearts of the American people and into the pages of their newspapers as Pogo. The puny possum and his partner sin mirth ...