We're coming down the home stretch on the second volume of Walt Kelly's Complete Pogo, and the good news is that we've got literally 99% of the never-beforere-reprinted, full-color Sundays from the two years covered in this collection. The bad news is that we're missing a half dozen panels still.
How can we be missing panels and not strips, you ask? Simple: the Pogo Sunday was put together in an odd configuration in which of the three possible formats — full page, half page, and third page — only one, the third page, contained the complete strip. The third page was missing the full top tier, and the full page was missing one square panel in the middle of the strip that was designed to be removable so that the strip could be assembled in this format.
So if we've got the half-page we're fine. If we've got both the full and the third page we're also fine because the two "complete each other" (to be romantic about it).
However, in the case of the following four strips:
July 8, 1951
December 9, 1951
September 14, 1952
October 12, 1952
We have only the full page, which means we're missing that little square. (We actually have a black-and-white version of all except December 9, 1951 hanks to a book reprint, so if push comes to shove we can colorize them and insert them — but December 9, 1951 is the tricky one, we've only got a bad microfilm version of that panel.)
There is also August 19, 1951, for which we have only the third (meaning we're missing the entire top third of it) — here again we have access to a black and white version (which seems to have been edited for the book version, another problem) but nothing else.
So we're sending out a call to collectors: If you know of or can find or can put us on the track of HALF or THIRD page versions of the first four strips, and FULL or HALF page versions of that final one… do let us know!