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Walt Kelly Pogo Daily - Simple J. Malarkey - Senator McCarthy & Richard Nixon - 13.09.1954

Artist: Walt Kelly (All)

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Walt Kelly Pogo Daily - Simple J. Malarkey - Senator McCarthy & Richard Nixon - 13.09.1954 Comic Art

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Title:	Walt Kelly Pogo Daily - Simple J. Malarkey - Senator McCarthy & Richard Nixon - 13.09.1954
Artist:	Walt Kelly (All)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Comic Strip
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	2,574
Likes on CAF:	0 1
Comments:	1
Added to Site:	1/20/2021
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Wonderful early political Pogo daily, featuring a rare appearance of Simple J. Malarkey, a caricature of Senator Joseph McCarthy. This is from his second (much shorter) visit to the Okefenokee swamp...�Indian Charlie� in the first panel is an early caricature of then-US-Vicepresident Richard Nixon (who later became the 37th US-President...and the only one to resign from his office, after Watergate...)...first published September 13th 1954...

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Perhaps the most famous example of the strip's satirical edge came into being on May 1, 1953, when Kelly introduced a friend of Mole's: a wildcat named "Simple J. Malarkey", an obvious caricature of Senator Joseph McCarthy. This showed significant courage on Kelly's part, considering the influence the politician wielded at the time and the possibility of scaring away subscribing newspapers.
When The Providence Bulletin issued an ultimatum in 1954, threatening to drop the strip if Malarkey's face appeared in the strip again, Kelly had Malarkey throw a bag over his head as Miss "Sis" Boombah (a Rhode Island Red hen) approached, explaining "no one from Providence should see me!"
Malarkey appeared in the strip only once after that sequence ended, during Kelly's tenure, on October 15, 1955. Again his face was covered, this time by his speech balloons as he stood on a soapbox shouting to general uninterest.

Joseph Raymond McCarthy (1908-1957) was an American politician and attorney who served as a Republican U.S. senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death in 1957. Beginning in 1950, McCarthy became the most visible public face of a period in the United States in which Cold War tensions fueled fears of widespread communist subversion. He is known for alleging that numerous communists and Soviet spies and sympathizers had infiltrated the United States federal government, universities, film industry, and elsewhere. Ultimately, the smear tactics that he used led him to be censured by the U.S. Senate. The term "McCarthyism�, coined in 1950 in reference to McCarthy's practices, was soon applied to similar anti-communist activities. Today, the term is used more broadly to mean demagogic, reckless, and unsubstantiated accusations, as well as public attacks on the character or patriotism of political opponents.

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Max C
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Posted on 1/21/2021

Fantastic and rare daily. Great addition, my Friend!

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