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Issue: Four Color #70
Publication Date: April 1945
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Issues: #70 of 1333 Issues (1484 Printings)
Title: Popeye and Wimpy
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagDell
Brand: A Dell BookView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 36 (35 stories, 1 cover)
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Disclose Notes: Indicia title is "POPEYE AND WIMPY, No. 70." No code number. Copyright 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943 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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First Line: Oh, how I love spring!
Synopsis: Olive climbs a tree looking for Cupid, but is knocked off by an irritated bear.
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First Line: Geezil forgived Rough-House for hittin' 'im...
Synopsis: Geezil tricks Wimpy with "invisible" hamburgers.
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First Line: Swee'pea is sad an' melankonkus...
Synopsis: Popeye and Wimpy try to cheer Swee'pea up.
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First Line: Wake up, sleepy-head! Are you go'ner stay in bed all day?
Synopsis: Swee'pea decides he wants soup for breakfast.
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First Line: What good is a hoskess at a spinburger stand?
Synopsis: Olive wants to be a hostess at Popeye's "spinburger" stand. (Spinburgers are hamburgers with spinach on them.)
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First Line: An exceedingly slow evening, my friend
Synopsis: Olive tries to make Popeye jealous by dancing with everyone but him.
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First Line: Why should I spend my life waiting for Popeye?
Synopsis: Olive gets a job as a waitress at Rough-House's restaurant.
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First Line: Swee'pea is melankonkus on account of he kin not get in the Navy...
Synopsis: Popeye tries to cheer up Swee'pea after the Navy refused to accept him.
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First Line: I'm ticklished punk
Synopsis: Geezil, in a fit of generosity, offers to pay Wimpy's hamburger bill.
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First Line: Ahoy, Rough-House, is yer bizness so good...
Synopsis: Wimpy disguises himself so that he can be hired as a counterman at Rough-House's diner.
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First Line: Swee'pea, you've had three plates of spinach today
Synopsis: Swee'pea eats lots of spinach so he can be an officer in the Navy.
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First Line: Whatcha think ya kin catch wit' grass tied on a rope, Wimpy?
Synopsis: Wimpy tries to catch a sea-cow.
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First Line: Yes, Geezil, it was splendid of you to invite me...
Synopsis: Wimpy brings a dummy dressed as Geezil to Rough-House's lunch counter to try to swindle some hamburgers.
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First Line: B'fore we go walkin; ya must drink yer juice-
Synopsis: Swee'pea wants to drink onion juice before he and Popeye go on a walk.
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First Line: You can't do any mooching here-Understand?
Synopsis: Wimpy tricks Rough-House into loaning him five dollars.
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First Line: My friend, may I have the use of your duck?
Synopsis: Wimpy tries to convince Popeye that the shadow of a duck will flavor soup.
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First Line: I yam going to grow spinach in water
Synopsis: Popeye decides to grow spinach in water indoors. Swee'pea adds some tadpoles to the water.
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First Line: Wimpy, I wantcha to come along an' tell me...
Synopsis: Popeye brings Wimpy along to watch Olive dance.
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First Line: Mother, I'm sure Popeye would propose...
Synopsis: Olive cooks a meal for Popeye to try to get him to propose, but Wimpy is the one who makes the proposal.
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First Line: Popeye, will you run down to the store...
Synopsis: Aunt Jones sends Popeye and Swee'pea to the store for some pins. They come back with a load of bundles, but no pins.
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First Line: Sumpin' is needed to brang the ducks near us
Synopsis: When they are duck hunting, Popeye asks Olive to make a duck call. Wimpy shoots a bird, but it's a goose, not a duck.
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First Line: Did you know I was running for mayor?
Synopsis: Wimpy does yard work for Popeye to earn money for a hamburger.
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First Line: It didn't look like ya could lay orfa hamburgers in town...
Synopsis: Popeye takes Wimpy hunting to take his mind off hamburgers, but Wimpy shoots a moose and makes "mooseburgers."
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First Line: Hm! Nice day to take yer sweetie to lunch
Synopsis: Popeye runs into "Capting Pinn," a sailor who was with Popeye on a ship during a mutiny.
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First Line: Greetings, my friend, I assume your sweetie...
Synopsis: Wimpy helps Popeye make up with Olive, and Popeye gives him a "bouquet" of hamburgers as a reward.
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First Line: You are like Rough-House's soup...
Synopsis: Wimpy makes a phonograph record of Geezil insulting him.
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First Line: He was here a couple of times looking for you..
Synopsis: Popeye tries to get Wimpy to stop eating hamburgers.
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First Line: Well, April showers bringed May flowers
Synopsis: Popeye decides to marry Olive, but changes his mind after realizing that Pappy, Swee'pea, and Aunt Jones would be leaving.
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First Line: Oh, My gorsh! I was supposed to meet Olive...
Synopsis: Popeye hurries to make an appointment with Olive, but Olive is late.
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First Line: Do you hafta be a roughneck?
Synopsis: When Swee'pea does something bad, Olive punishes Popeye instead.
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First Line: Nice weather for a walk, Olive
Synopsis: Popeye and Olive go for a walk. Olive doesn't have an appetite until the end of the walk when the pair is by a relatively-expensive diner.
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First Line: Every time Wimpy comes visiting here with you...
Synopsis: Olive suspects Wimpy is stealing food from her icebox, so she lays a trap for him.
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First Line: My friend, I'm running for mayor.
Synopsis: Wimpy disguises himself as a blind man and gets Swee'pea to beg for him.
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First Line: Poppa sez if I makes ya me June bride he'll burn the house down
Synopsis: Olive dumps Popeye to date Poopdeck Pappy.
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First Line: Ahoy, Swee'pea, wha's goin' on out here?
Synopsis: Swee'pea plants a Victory Garden and wants to raise lemon drops, marshmallows, noodles, and sardines.
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