Interesting, I read the first page, and it made it sound like Poppo had been a real person. So, I read the indicia and says the character was owned by someone named George Gale; that could be the cartoonist who created the character, or it might mean someone else. So, out of curiosity, I Googled the name, and apparently, George Gale was a performer who really performed as Poppo the Clown.
By Robb_K
Our Reading Group discussed this in 2017. It seems there was a syndicated Radio show and TV show in The Southwest of USA during the 1950s. Also, The Oakland Post newspaper printed a photograph of Poppo The Clown passing out balloons to children at an Oakland Raiders' football game in 1966, They crossreferenced that with an article about him in an African-American history journal of sorts. Apparently, Gale was an African-American. Unfortunately The Oakland Library's newspaper issue's photo of him is stated to not be online, when I tried to bring it up.
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