# Walt Kelly - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-06-19T00:36:59.411Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 41
- Lots with prices: 30
- First auction date: 2005-05-20
- Latest auction date: 2026-04-14
- Median realised price: $296
- Price range: $10 to $2,125

## Market Takeaway
Walt Kelly has 41 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $296. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 1 sales. These metrics reflect recorded public auction results and may not include private transactions or every premium outlier sale.

## How To Read This Data
- Use median \($296\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($150 to $480\) as the middle 50% of recorded sales.
- Auction prices can include buyer premiums or fees depending on house reporting, so compare on a like\-for\-like basis.
- Condition, provenance, size, and attribution confidence can move final value materially versus median comps.

## Price Bands
- Under $1,000: 90% (27 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 10% (3 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 1
- Previous 12 months sales: 3
- Recent 12 months median: $400
- Previous 12 months median: $300
- Median shift: 33.3%
- Latest sale date: 2026-04-14
- Days since latest sale: 65
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Finarte: 6 lots
- Sloans & Kenyon: 4 lots
- Thomaston Place Auction Galleries: 3 lots
- Dirk Soulis Auctions: 2 lots
- EJ'S Auction & Appraisal: 2 lots
- Leonard Joel: 2 lots
- RR Auction: 2 lots
- Rapid Estate Liquidators and Auction Gallery: 2 lots
- Alexander Historical Auctions LLC: 1 lots
- Auction New England: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-02-18 | Walt Kelly \(American 1913\-1973\), "Pogo": Four Panel Comic Strip Dated 3\-18 and signed and dated 1957 in strip and signed and dedicated in blue ink l.r., Ink and blue pencil on paper, Frame: 6 3/4 x 18 in. \(17.1 x 45.7 cm | Weschler's | $300
2. 2024-11-08 | Walt Kelly \- Pogo, 1967 | Finarte | N/A
3. 2024-11-08 | WALT KELLY \(CA, 1913\-1973\) | Thomaston Place Auction Galleries | $350
4. 2024-05-10 | Walt Kelly \- Pogo, 1968 | Finarte | N/A
5. 2024-05-10 | Walt Kelly \- Pogo, 1959 | Finarte | N/A
6. 2024-05-10 | Walt Kelly \- Pogo, 1948 | Finarte | N/A
7. 2024-04-23 | WALT KELLY, AMERICAN 1913\-1973, POGO DAILY COMIC STRIP ORIGINAL, 1957, Pen and ink over blue pencil card, Card: 5 3/4 x 17 in. \(14.6 x 43.2 cm.\) | Potomack Company | $715
8. 2024-03-30 | Walt Kelly \(1913\-1973\) Original Pencil Drawing | EJ'S Auction & Appraisal | $110
9. 2024-03-30 | Walt Kelly \(1913\-1973\) Original Pencil Drawing | EJ'S Auction & Appraisal | $130
10. 2024-03-24 | Walt Kelly \(American, 1913\-1973\) Pogo Comic Assortment | Leonard Auction | $1,900 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-walt-kelly-american-1913-1973-pogo-comic-assortment-329-c-c9b40a0b28
11. 2023-11-10 | WALT KELLY \(NY/CA, 1913\-1973\) | Thomaston Place Auction Galleries | $175
12. 2023-11-10 | WALT KELLY \(NY/CA, 1913\-1973\) | Thomaston Place Auction Galleries | $700
13. 2023-11-02 | WALT KELLY \(American, 1913 \- 1973\). Pogo characters: "Deacon Mushrat," "Albert Alligator," "Pup Dog," and "Porkypine.", Charcoal drawin | Sloans & Kenyon | $190
14. 2022-12-15 | WALT KELLY \(American, 1913 \- 1973\). Pogo characters: "Deacon Mushrat," "Albert Alligator," "Pup Dog," and "Porkypine.", Charcoal drawin | Sloans & Kenyon | $200
15. 2022-12-12 | Walt Kelly \(American, 1913\-1973\) Original Sunday Comic Strip Drawing POGO, 1967 | Kensington Estate Auctions | $400
16. 2022-12-11 | Walt Kelly 'Seated Nude' Ink & Watercolor on Paper | Auctions at Showplace | $250
17. 2022-11-17 | WALT KELLY \(American, 1913 \- 1973\). Pogo characters: "Deacon Mushrat," "Albert Alligator," "Pup Dog," and "Porkypine.", Charcoal drawin | Sloans & Kenyon | $150
18. 2022-05-07 | Walt Kelly \- Pogo, 1961 | Finarte | €1,000
19. 2022-05-07 | Walt Kelly \- Pogo St. Patricksburg Day, 1956 | Finarte | N/A
20. 2021-06-24 | WALT KELLY \(1913\-1973\) "Don't you got no conscience?" \[COMICS / POGO\] | Swann Auction Galleries | $2,125
21. 2020-12-20 | Walt Kelly | Septimus | €480
22. 2020-06-28 | Walt Kelly Original Pogo Comic Strip Illustration | Tremont Auctions | $800
23. 2018-12-05 | Walt Kelly \(1913 – 1973\), Pogo | Cambi Casa d'Aste | N/A
24. 2018-08-23 | Two Vintage Illustrated Pogo Books by Walt Kelly | Rapid Estate Liquidators and Auction Gallery | $10

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