"Pogo" Puce Stamps by Walt Kelly

I have to keep these with the Puce Stamps story line, driven by Nikita (the pig) Khrushchev.

In 1962, Pogo cartoonist Walt Kelly made fun of the practice popularized by US supermarket chain Sperry & Hutchinson ("S&H") of giving out bonus stamps with each purchase. These green stamps could later be traded for household goods of all kind, giving customers the (false) idea of getting something for nothing, while at the same time making them spend more.

Kelly’s "Puce Stamps" were an obvious scam, promoted by token baddie Mr. Pig (a barely disguised caricature of Nikita Kruschev) and aimed at abusing the naivity of the denizens of the Okefenokee Swamp.

In real life, a set of nine Puce Stamps, featuring the main characters of the Pogo strip, was created in 1963, and included by publishers Simon & Schuster with the first edition of the Pogo compilation, "The Puce Stamp Catalog." Here are two sets of them.

In this mid-1962 series, Nikita Khrushchev is accompanied by "Fido" Castro. The commentary, as always, is awesome. Can you just imagine what Kelly would have done with the results of the 2016 US election?