233:: Mysterious Pete is a strange visitor wrapped in a large blue cloak and a big hat, with one eye peering out. Pete floats on a cloud, accompanied by his dog, to deliver messages to the rest of the cast, and occasionally to rescue them from trouble. He is described by other characters as some kind of ghost, prefers buckskin clothing, and has a western style revolver at the ready. Although he initially gives the children their instructions, it is also he who sets Aunt JimJam and company in pursuit of the children.
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Feininger's visually poetic formal concerns collided comically with the fishwrap disposability of news print ... The cartoonist, a New Yorker who had emigrated to
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salesman, is the inventor of "The
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