It s in this volume (featuring another two years worth of Pogo strips) that we meet one of Walt Kelly s boldest political caricatures. Folks across America had little trouble equating the insidious wildcat Simple J. Malarkey with the ascendant anti-Communist senator, Joseph McCarthy. The subject was sensitive enough that by the following year a Providence, Rhode Island newspaper threatened to drop the strip if Malarkey s face were to appear in it again. Kelly s response? He had Malarkey appear again but put a bag over the character s head for his next appearance. Ergo, his face did not...