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Issue: Four Color #43
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Title: Popeye
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagDell
Brand: A Dell MagazineView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
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Content Items: 41 (40 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
Disclose Notes: Indicia title is "POPEYE, No. 43." No code number. Copyright 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941,1942 by King Features Syndicate, Inc.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age U.S.; standard Silver Age U.S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Subject Matter
humorous
Popeye
Popeye
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
E. C. Segar ?
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Subject Matter
humorous
Thimble Theatre
Popeye; Swee'pea; Poopdeck Pappy
Ya Didn't Know I Was a Juggler, Did Ja?
Poopdeck Pappy breaks a vase and tries to blame Swee'pea.
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from Thimble Theatre (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1938.
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Inside front cover; black, red, and white.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
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Subject Matter
humorous
Thimble Theatre
Popeye; Wimpy; Olive Oyl
Olive, I Yam Wooin' Ya The Best I Know How to Woo.
Popeye has Wimpy write a love poem to Olive for him.
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from Thimble Theatre (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1938
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
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Subject Matter
humorous
Thimble Theatre Starring Popeye
Popeye; Swee'pea; Wimpy
Be a Good Boy an' Take Care of the House While I Yam Gone.
Wimpy comes to mooch some food from Popeye's refrigerator. Swee'pea scares him off.
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from Thimble Theatre (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1939
Miscellaneous
1
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Bela Zaboly [as BeeZ] (signed)
Bela Zaboly [as BeeZ] (signed)
?
?
Subject Matter
humorous
Thimble Theatre Starring Popeye
Popeye; Wimpy
1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10
Wimpy gets kicked out of a restaurant, but keeps going back in.
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from Thimble Theatre (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1940
Miscellaneous
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Bela Zaboly [as BeeZ] (signed)
Bela Zaboly [as BeeZ] (signed)
?
?
Subject Matter
humorous
Thimble Theatre Starring Popeye
Popeye; Swee'pea
Somethin's Wrong with Me Adoptit Offspring, Swee'pea
Swee'pea is depressed, so Popeye has an artist paint "pitchers" for him.
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from Thimble Theatre (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1940
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Bela Zaboly [as BeeZ] (signed)
Bela Zaboly [as BeeZ] (signed)
?
?
Subject Matter
humorous
Thimble Theatre Starring Popeye
Popeye; Olive Oyl; Wimpy
Hello, Popeye! Come In
Popeye criticizes Olive's dancing.
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from Thimble Theatre (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1940
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Bela Zaboly [as BeeZ] (signed)
Bela Zaboly [as BeeZ] (signed)
?
?
Subject Matter
humorous
Thimble Theatre Starring Popeye
Popeye; Olive Oyl
Olive Wants Me to Meet Her Dancin'- Teacher
Popeye is jealous of Olive's dancing teacher.
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from Thimble Theatre (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1940
Miscellaneous
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Bela Zaboly [as BeeZ] (signed)
Bela Zaboly [as BeeZ] (signed)
?
?
Subject Matter
humorous
Thimble Theatre Starring Popeye
Popeye; Wimpy; Rough-House; Poopdeck Pappy
Good Day Gentlemen. Do You Happen to Know a Restaurant That Specializes...
Popeye tries to make Wimpy think he's become dizzy after eating a huge mound of hamburgers.
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from Thimble Theatre (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1940
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Bela Zaboly [as BeeZ] (signed)
Bela Zaboly [as BeeZ] (signed)
?
?
Subject Matter
humorous
Thimble Theatre Starring Popeye
Popeye; Wimpy; Rough-House
Truly a Remarkable Example of the Noble Art of Taxidermy, Yet Quite Inedible
Wimpy tries to trick Popeye with a stuffed duck. Rough-House serves Wimpy the stuffed duck for dinner.
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from Thimble Theatre (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1940
Miscellaneous
1
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Bela Zaboly [as BeeZ] (signed)
Bela Zaboly [as BeeZ] (signed)
?
?
Subject Matter
humorous
Thimble Theatre Starring Popeye
Popeye; Wimpy
Lovely Day, Is It Not, My Friend?
Popeye socks a ruffian, but he doesn't fall down.
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from Thimble Theatre (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1941
Miscellaneous
1
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Bela Zaboly [as BeeZ] (signed)
Bela Zaboly [as BeeZ] (signed)
?
?
Subject Matter
humorous
Thimble Theatre Starring Popeye
Popeye; Olive Oyl; Nana Oyl
I Suspose Olive is at Home, Mrs. Oyl
Olive and Popeye sit on opposite sides of the room since they've both been eating onions.
Reprinting
from Thimble Theatre (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1941
Miscellaneous
1
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Bela Zaboly [as BeeZ] (signed)
Bela Zaboly [as BeeZ] (signed)
?
?
Subject Matter
humorous
Thimble Theatre Starring Popeye
Popeye; Swee'pea; Wimpy
Ahoy, Swee'pea. I Bringed You a Presink
Popeye gives Swee'pea a picture book, but Swee'pea won't leave the book to eat his dinner.
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from Thimble Theatre (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1941
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1
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Bela Zaboly [as BeeZ] (signed)
Bela Zaboly [as BeeZ] (signed)
?
?
Subject Matter
humorous
Thimble Theatre Starring Popeye
Popeye; Olive Oyl
Window Shopping Is Lots of Fun, Don't You Think, Popeye?
While window-shopping with Popeye, Olive dreams of what their life would be after they are married.
Reprinting
from Thimble Theatre (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1941
Miscellaneous
1
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Bela Zaboly [as BeeZ] (signed)
Bela Zaboly [as BeeZ] (signed)
?
?
Subject Matter
humorous
Thimble Theatre Starring Popeye
Popeye; Olive Oyl; Nana Oyl
Yoo-Hoo! Popeye!
After Olive laughs at Popeye's baby pictures, Popeye gets some baby pictures of Olive from Olive's mother.
Reprinting
from Thimble Theatre (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1941
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1
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Bela Zaboly [as BeeZ] (signed)
Bela Zaboly [as BeeZ] (signed)
?
?
Subject Matter
humorous
Thimble Theatre Starring Popeye
Popeye
Say Is That a Lady's Hat?
Popeye is taking Olive's new hat to her from the hat shop. A ruffian snatches the box and roughs Popeye up -- at least for a little while.
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from Thimble Theatre (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1941
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Bela Zaboly [as BeeZ] (signed)
Bela Zaboly [as BeeZ] (signed)
?
?
Subject Matter
humorous
Thimble Theatre starring Popeye
Popeye; Wimpy
My Friend, I Have Something Here Destined to Make Our Armed Forces Invincible
Wimpy pretends to have "hamburger condenser" which will compress a hamburger into a small pellet.
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from Thimble Theatre (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1941
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1
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Bela Zaboly [as BeeZ] (signed)
Bela Zaboly [as BeeZ] (signed)
?
?
Subject Matter
humorous
Thimble Theatre Starring Popeye
Popeye; Swee'pea; Wimpy
Yer Won't Talk, Eh? Well, Yer Gonna Talk!--Unnerstan?
Wimpy teaches Swee'pea to talk so he can mooch hamburgers for him.
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from Thimble Theatre (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1941
Miscellaneous
1
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Bela Zaboly [as BeeZ] (signed)
Bela Zaboly [as BeeZ] (signed)
?
?
Subject Matter
humorous
Thimble Theatre Starring Popeye
Popeye; Swee'pea; Wimpy
Oh, My Gorsh!!
Wimpy comes up with the idea of "spinburgers," hamburgers with spinach on them.
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from Thimble Theatre (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strips from 1941
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Two Sunday strips with a continued story.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Bela Zaboly [as BeeZ] (signed)
Bela Zaboly [as BeeZ] (signed)
?
?
Subject Matter
humorous
Thimble Theatre Starring Popeye
Popeye (cameo); Wimpy (cameo); Swee'pea; Aunt Jones
Swell Day for Rabbits, Wimpy
Swee'pea doesn't eat his spinach, then feels guilty about it.
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from Thimble Theatre (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1941
Miscellaneous
1
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Bela Zaboly [as BeeZ] (signed)
Bela Zaboly [as BeeZ] (signed)
?
?
Subject Matter
humorous
Thimble Theatre Starring Popeye
Popeye; Wimpy
Step Right Up, Ladies and Gents-Step Right Up...
Popeye checks to see if a sideshow strong man is faking his stunts.
Reprinting
from Thimble Theatre (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1941
Miscellaneous
1
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Bela Zaboly [as BeeZ] (signed)
Bela Zaboly [as BeeZ] (signed)
?
?
Subject Matter
humorous
Thimble Theatre Starring Popeye
Popeye; Swee'pea
Swee'pea Keeps Runnin' Orf to Enlisk in'a Navy
Swee'pea tries to join the Navy.
Reprinting
from Thimble Theatre (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1941
Miscellaneous
1
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Bela Zaboly [as BeeZ] (signed)
Bela Zaboly [as BeeZ] (signed)
?
?
Subject Matter
humorous
Thimble Theatre Starring Popeye
Popeye; Wimpy; Olive Oyl
Let Me Get This Straight, Miss Oyl...
Olive tells Wimpy to pretend to kiss her to make Popeye jealous.
Reprinting
from Thimble Theatre (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1941
Miscellaneous
1
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Bela Zaboly [as BeeZ] (signed)
Bela Zaboly [as BeeZ] (signed)
?
?
Subject Matter
humorous
Thimble Theatre Starring Popeye
Popeye; Wimpy; Swee'pea; Olive Oyl; Rough-House (cameo)
You're Lookin' Lonesome Swee'pea...
The grown-ups are playing with all of Swee'pea's toys.
Reprinting
from Thimble Theatre (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1941
Miscellaneous
1
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Bela Zaboly [as BeeZ] (signed)
Bela Zaboly [as BeeZ] (signed)
?
?
Subject Matter
humorous
Thimble Theatre Starring Popeye
Popeye; Wimpy; Oliver Oyl; George Geezil; Aunt Jones; Poopdeck Pappy (cameo)
You Take Tigers and Lions, They Eat Meat...
Wimpy gets Popeye into a bet as to whether hamburger is mightier than spinach.
Reprinting
from Thimble Theatre (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1942
Miscellaneous
1
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Bela Zaboly [as BeeZ] (signed)
Bela Zaboly [as BeeZ] (signed)
?
?
Subject Matter
humorous
Thimble Theatre Starring Popeye
Popeye; Olive Oyl; Swee'pea
Popeye, Don't You Love Me Any more?
Swee'pea patches up things when Popeye and Olive have a lovers' spat.
Reprinting
from Thimble Theatre (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1942
Miscellaneous
1
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Bela Zaboly [as BeeZ] (signed)
Bela Zaboly [as BeeZ] (signed)
?
?
Subject Matter
humorous
Thimble Theatre Starring Popeye
Popeye; Wimpy; George Geezil; Olive Oyl; Swee'pea
Ha! A Waitress in Geezil's Place You Are...
Olive is a waitress in George Geezil's restaurant.
Reprinting
from Thimble Theatre (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strips from 1942
Miscellaneous
2
Two Sunday strips with continuity. Some dialogue on the first page has been re-lettered.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Bela Zaboly [as BeeZ] (signed)
Bela Zaboly [as BeeZ] (signed)
?
?
Subject Matter
humorous, sports
Thimble Theatre Starring Popeye
Popeye; Wimpy; Olive Oyl; Swee'pea; Rough-House; Madam Muscle
My Friend, I Have Completed Arrangements...
Wimpy arranges a wrestling match between Olive and Madam Muscle.
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from Thimble Theatre (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strips from 1942
Miscellaneous
4
Four Sunday pages with continuity.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Bela Zaboly [as BeeZ] (signed)
Bela Zaboly [as BeeZ] (signed)
?
?
Subject Matter
humorous
Thimble Theatre Starring Popeye
Popeye; Wimpy; Rough-House
Where Ya Goin' With 'At Gun Wimpy?
Wimpy shoots a turkey in Rough-House's kitchen. Unfortunately for Rough-House, it had already been cooked.
Reprinting
from Thimble Theatre (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1942
Miscellaneous
1
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Bela Zaboly [as BeeZ] (signed)
Bela Zaboly [as BeeZ] (signed)
?
?
Subject Matter
humorous
Thimble Theatre Starring Popeye
Popeye; Wimpy
Spring!! 'Tis Spring Again!
Wimpy is invigorated by the springtime smells of hamburgers being cooked in lunch-wagons.
Reprinting
from Thimble Theatre (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1942
Miscellaneous
1
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Bela Zaboly [as BeeZ] (signed)
Bela Zaboly [as BeeZ] (signed)
?
?
Subject Matter
humorous
Thimble Theatre Starring Popeye
Popeye; Wimpy; Rough-House
I knows Jus' How Much Food Is Stocked Up...
Popeye leaves Wimpy in charge of his Hamburger Wagon.
Reprinting
from Thimble Theatre (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1942
Miscellaneous
1
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Bela Zaboly [as BeeZ] (signed)
Bela Zaboly [as BeeZ] (signed)
?
?
Subject Matter
humorous
Thimble Theatre Starring Popeye
Popeye; Olive Oyl; Rough-House
Give Her Our Card, Popeye...
Popeye plans to send Olive to a new beauty shop for a full-body make-over.
Reprinting
from Thimble Theatre (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1942
Miscellaneous
1
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Bela Zaboly [as BeeZ] (signed)
Bela Zaboly [as BeeZ] (signed)
?
?
Subject Matter
humorous
Thimble Theatre Starring Popeye
Popeye; Wimpy; Swee'pea; Rough-House
May I Discuss With You A Matter of Upmost Importance?
Wimpy and Swee'pea are playing make-believe and switching places.
Reprinting
from Thimble Theatre (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1942
Miscellaneous
1
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Bela Zaboly [as BeeZ] (signed)
Bela Zaboly [as BeeZ] (signed)
?
?
Subject Matter
humorous
Thimble Theatre Starring Popeye
Popeye; Swee'pea; Aunt Jones
Popeye, If Ya Had Some Iced Cream...
Swee'pea tries to sell spinach to a junk yard "because it has iron in it."
Reprinting
from Thimble Theatre (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1942
Miscellaneous
1
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Bela Zaboly [as BeeZ] (signed)
Bela Zaboly [as BeeZ] (signed)
?
?
Subject Matter
humorous, sports
Thimble Theatre Starring Popeye
Popeye; Wimpy; Olive Oyl
Wha's Become of Her?
Popeye, Wimpy, and Olive go on their annual golf outing.
Reprinting
from Thimble Theatre (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1942
Miscellaneous
1
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Bela Zaboly [as BeeZ] (signed)
Bela Zaboly [as BeeZ] (signed)
?
?
Subject Matter
humorous
Thimble Theatre Starring Popeye
Popeye; Wimpy
Yes, Popeye, Business Is Terrible
To pay off a hamburger debt, Wimpy is billed as "The Human Hog" in a carnival sideshow.
Reprinting
from Thimble Theatre (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1942
Miscellaneous
1
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Bela Zaboly [as BeeZ] (signed)
Bela Zaboly [as BeeZ] (signed)
?
?
Subject Matter
humorous
Thimble Theatre Starring Popeye
Popeye
This Is a Tough Lookin' Joint...
Popeye goes into a rough joint, where the regulars make fun of him for eating spinach.
Reprinting
from Thimble Theatre (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1942
Miscellaneous
1
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Bela Zaboly [as BeeZ] (signed)
Bela Zaboly [as BeeZ] (signed)
?
?
Subject Matter
humorous
Thimble Theatre Starring Popeye
Popeye; Swee'pea
How Would Ya Like To Get a Iced Cream Soder?
Swee'pea has a crush on the waitress at an ice cream shop.
Reprinting
from Thimble Theatre (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1942
Miscellaneous
1
Disclose
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Bela Zaboly [as BeeZ] (signed)
Bela Zaboly [as BeeZ] (signed)
?
?
Subject Matter
humorous
Thimble Theatre Starring Popeye
Popeye; Olive Oyl
Popeye Is Too Sure of Me...
To make Popeye jealous, Olive pretends to prefer going out with Army boys.
Reprinting
from Thimble Theatre (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strips from 1942
Miscellaneous
2
Two Sundays with continuity.
Disclose
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Bela Zaboly [as BeeZ] (signed)
Bela Zaboly [as BeeZ] (signed)
?
?
Subject Matter
humorous
Thimble Theatre Starring Popeye
Popeye; Swee'pea; Aunt Jones; Wimpy; Rough-House; Olive Oyl
Who The Heck Wants To Go To School?
Swee'pea goes to school.
Reprinting
from Thimble Theatre (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strips from 1942
Miscellaneous
4
Four Sundays with continuity.
Disclose
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Bela Zaboly [as BeeZ] (signed)
Bela Zaboly [as BeeZ] (signed)
?
?
Subject Matter
humorous
Thimble Theatre Starring Popeye
Popeye; Wimpy; Poopdeck Pappy; Aunt Jones
Ya Ain't Done Nothin', But I Don't Like Your Looks
Popeye develops a strange condition where all his punches have delayed reactions.
Reprinting
from Thimble Theatre (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strips from 1942
Miscellaneous
3
Three Sundays with continuity. Second page is the inside back cover in black, red, and white.

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