Four Color #26

(1943)

["We haven't seen a duck all morning"] (Table of Contents)

Thimble Theatre / comic story / 1 page (report information)

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Script:

E. C. Segar

Pencils:

E. C. Segar

Inks:

E. C. Segar

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Content Information

Genre:

humor

Characters:

Popeye; Wimpy

Synopsis:

Wimpy double-talks a farmer into giving him a cow.

Reprints:

• from Thimble Theatre (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1935.10.13 [minus panel 9]

Indexer Notes

Inside front cover; black, red, and white.

["I'm going to close up my cafe this afternoon..."] (Table of Contents)

Thimble Theatre / comic story / 1 page (report information)

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Script:

E. C. Segar

Pencils:

E. C. Segar

Inks:

E. C. Segar

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Content Information

Genre:

humor

Characters:

Popeye; Wimpy; Olive Oyl

Synopsis:

Wimpy shoots a farmer's cow, but Popeye gets the blame.

Reprints:

• from Thimble Theatre (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1935.10.20 [minus panel 11]

["Zupe, Wimpy boy, bring me zupe!"] (Table of Contents)

Thimble Theatre / comic story / 1 page (report information)

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Script:

E. C. Segar

Pencils:

E. C. Segar

Inks:

E. C. Segar

Colors:

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Content Information

Genre:

humor

Characters:

Popeye; Wimpy; George Geezil

Synopsis:

Geezil and Popeye eat at Wimpy's cafe. Wimpy's cooking methods are a somewhat unorthodox.

Reprints:

• from Thimble Theatre (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1935.10.27 [minus panel 6]

["My gorsh, Wimpy, look at this poor little dorg"] (Table of Contents)

Thimble Theatre / comic story / 1 page (report information)

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Script:

E. C. Segar

Pencils:

E. C. Segar

Inks:

E. C. Segar

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Content Information

Genre:

humor

Characters:

Popeye; Wimpy

Synopsis:

Wimpy makes Popeye feel guilty when he kills a rabbit to feed to a hungry dog.

Reprints:

• from Thimble Theatre (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1935.11.03

["Pitiful, isn't it?"] (Table of Contents)

Thimble Theatre / comic story / 1 page (report information)

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Script:

E. C. Segar

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E. C. Segar

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E. C. Segar

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Genre:

humor

Characters:

Popeye; Wimpy

Synopsis:

Popeye gives Wimpy some hamburgers to feed to a hungry dog, but Wimpy eats them himself.

Reprints:

• from Thimble Theatre (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1935.11.10

["How's business, Wimpy?"] (Table of Contents)

Thimble Theatre / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

E. C. Segar

Pencils:

E. C. Segar

Inks:

E. C. Segar

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Genre:

humor

Characters:

Popeye; Wimpy; George Geezil

Synopsis:

Geezil complains about Wimpy's soup, until Wimpy tells Geezil he should be mayor.

Reprints:

• from Thimble Theatre (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1935.11.17

["Smells mighty good - Say - Cook one for me..."] (Table of Contents)

Thimble Theatre / comic story / 1 page (report information)

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Script:

E. C. Segar

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E. C. Segar

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E. C. Segar

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Content Information

Genre:

humor

Characters:

Popeye; Wimpy

Synopsis:

After Wimpy drops a steak on the floor, Popeye demands a new steak. Wimpy tricks him into taking the original one.

Reprints:

• from Thimble Theatre (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1935.11.24 [minus panel 8]

["I heard Wimpy lost his restrunt - I suppose he et..."] (Table of Contents)

Thimble Theatre / comic story / 1 page (report information)

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Script:

E. C. Segar

Pencils:

E. C. Segar

Inks:

E. C. Segar

Colors:

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Content Information

Genre:

humor

Characters:

Popeye; Wimpy; Olive Oyl

Synopsis:

Wimpy sells his restaurant but takes a hundred hamburgers with him when he leaves.

Reprints:

• from Thimble Theatre (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1935.12.01 [minus panel 10]

["Let Swee'pea play around the lake while I goes..."] (Table of Contents)

Thimble Theatre / comic story / 1 page (report information)

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Script:

E. C. Segar

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E. C. Segar

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E. C. Segar

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Content Information

Genre:

humor

Characters:

Popeye; Wimpy; Swee'pea

Synopsis:

Wimpy tries to fool Popeye into believing he saved Swee'pea from drowning.

Reprints:

• from Thimble Theatre (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1935.12.08

["Ladies and gentlemen! I take great pleasure..."] (Table of Contents)

Thimble Theatre / comic story / 1 page (report information)

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Script:

E. C. Segar

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E. C. Segar

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E. C. Segar

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Genre:

humor; sports

Characters:

Popeye; Wimpy; Curley Gazook

Synopsis:

Popeye has a nightmare where he is knocked out in a prize fight.

Reprints:

• from Thimble Theatre (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1936.06.21 [minus panel 5]

["Good morning, good morning, my fair Waneeta."] (Table of Contents)

Thimble Theatre / comic story / 1 page (report information)

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Script:

E. C. Segar

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E. C. Segar

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E. C. Segar

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Genre:

humor

Characters:

Popeye; Wimpy; Waneeta

Synopsis:

Popeye gets a job as a guard in an aquarium. Wimpy tries to take advantage to go fishing there.

Reprints:

• from Thimble Theatre (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1937.08.01 [minus panel 1]

["So you're mad at Wimpy, eh, Geezil?"] (Table of Contents)

Thimble Theatre / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

E. C. Segar

Pencils:

E. C. Segar

Inks:

E. C. Segar

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Content Information

Genre:

humor

Characters:

Popeye; Wimpy; George Geezil; Eugene the Jeep

Synopsis:

Geezil records Wimpy flattering him, so he can get the compliments without dealing with Wimpy.

Reprints:

• from Thimble Theatre (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1937.09.12 [minus panel 1]

[Swee'pea's Real Mother Returns] (Table of Contents)

Thimble Theatre / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

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Script:

E. C. Segar

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E. C. Segar

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E. C. Segar

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Genre:

humor

Characters:

Popeye; Swee'pea; Poopdeck Pappy; Eugene the Jeep; Swee'pea's mother; Olive Oyl; Wimpy

Synopsis:

Swee'pea's real mother comes to claim him. Swee'pea runs away and with Wimpy's help is re-united with Popeye.

Reprints:

• from Thimble Theatre (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strips from 1937.09.19 [minus panel 1], 1937.09.26 [minus panel 1], 1937.10.17 [minus panel 1, dialogue in panel 2 edited], 1937.10.24 [minus panel 1], 1937.11.28 [minus panel 1]

["Yer the limik, Olive! Are you still reading that..."] (Table of Contents)

Thimble Theatre / comic story / 1 page (report information)

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Script:

E. C. Segar

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E. C. Segar

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E. C. Segar

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Content Information

Genre:

humor

Characters:

Popeye; Wimpy; Olive Oyl

Synopsis:

When Olive reads "Lumberjack Love," Wimpy tells Popeye to be rough with her.

Reprints:

• from Thimble Theatre (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1937.12.26 [minus panel 1]

[Yeah, I have news - I am going to open..."] (Table of Contents)

Thimble Theatre / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

E. C. Segar

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E. C. Segar

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E. C. Segar

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Content Information

Genre:

humor

Characters:

Popeye; Wimpy; George Geezil; Rough-House

Synopsis:

Geezil opens a restaurant and tries to poison Wimpy.

Reprints:

• from Thimble Theatre (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1938.01.02 [minus panel 1]

["Geezil must be crazy, opening a cafe next door"] (Table of Contents)

Thimble Theatre / comic story / 1 page (report information)

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Script:

E. C. Segar

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E. C. Segar

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Content Information

Genre:

humor

Characters:

Popeye; Wimpy; Rough-House; George Geezil

Synopsis:

Geezil can't knock his own soup, so he goes next door and gets some at Rough-House's.

Reprints:

• from Thimble Theatre (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1938.01.09 [minus panel 1]

[The Men from Mars] (Table of Contents)

Thimble Theatre / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

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E. C. Segar; ?

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Genre:

humor; science fiction

Characters:

Popeye; Wimpy; Olive Oyl; Mars Men

Synopsis:

Popeye has to fight the champion of the Men from Mars.

Reprints:

• from Thimble Theatre (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1938.01.16, 1938.01.30, 1938.02.06, 1938.02.13, 1938.02.19

Indexer Notes

First three Sundays are by Segar. Last two are not.

["Hah! A little kid selling lemingade"] (Table of Contents)

Thimble Theatre / comic story / 1 page (report information)

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E. C. Segar

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E. C. Segar

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Genre:

humor

Characters:

Popeye

Synopsis:

Popeye praises the lemonade from a little kid's stand, so the kid raises the price.

Reprints:

• from Thimble Theatre (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1938.07.10 [minus panel 1]

["I yam goner tell Wimpy jus' ezackly how awful he is"] (Table of Contents)

Thimble Theatre / comic story / 1 page (report information)

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Script:

E. C. Segar

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E. C. Segar

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E. C. Segar

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Content Information

Genre:

humor

Characters:

Popeye; Wimpy

Synopsis:

When Popeye tells Wimpy off, Wimpy brings out a ventriloquist's dummy, who praises Wimpy and disparages Popeye.

Reprints:

• from Thimble Theatre (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1938.07.17 [minus panel 1]

["Bla-bla-phooey! Business is so rotten I could cry..."] (Table of Contents)

Thimble Theatre / comic story / 1 page (report information)

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Script:

E. C. Segar

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E. C. Segar

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E. C. Segar

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Content Information

Genre:

humor

Characters:

Popeye; Wimpy; George Geezil

Synopsis:

Geezil agrees to fix Wimpy a "bread sandwich," not knowing that it consists of a slice of bread between two hamburgers.

Reprints:

• from Thimble Theatre (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1938.07.24 [minus panel 1]

["So ya let that tough kid hang a shiner on ya?"] (Table of Contents)

Thimble Theatre / comic story / 1 page (report information)

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Script:

E. C. Segar

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E. C. Segar

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E. C. Segar

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Content Information

Genre:

humor

Characters:

Popeye; Swee'pea

Synopsis:

Popeye is upset when Swee'pea comes home with a black eye from a fight.

Reprints:

• from Thimble Theatre (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1938.07.31 [minus panel 1]

["I hates to admit it at me age, I feels love creepin' "] (Table of Contents)

Thimble Theatre Starring Popeye / comic story / 1 page (report information)

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Script:

E. C. Segar

Pencils:

E. C. Segar

Inks:

E. C. Segar

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Content Information

Genre:

humor

Characters:

Popeye; Olive Oyl; Poopdeck Pappy

Synopsis:

When Olive tells Pappy she loves Popeye; Pappy disguises himself as Popeye.

Reprints:

• from Thimble Theatre (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1938.08.04 [minus panel 1]

["Don't worry, I won't let the imposker get away..."] (Table of Contents)

Thimble Theatre Starring Popeye / comic story / 1 page (report information)

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Script:

E. C. Segar

Pencils:

E. C. Segar

Inks:

E. C. Segar

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Content Information

Genre:

humor

Characters:

Popeye; Olive Oyl; Poopdeck Pappy

Synopsis:

Pappy (disguised as Popeye) refuses to tell Popeye and Olive who he really is.

Reprints:

• from Thimble Theatre (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1938.08.25 [minus panel 1]

["I'll never be able to live that down."] (Table of Contents)

Thimble Theatre Starring Popeye / comic story / 1 page (report information)

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Script:

E. C. Segar

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E. C. Segar

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E. C. Segar

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Genre:

humor

Characters:

Popeye; Olive Oyl; Poopdeck Pappy

Synopsis:

Pappy disguises himself as Popeye again.

Reprints:

• from Thimble Theatre (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1938.10.02 [minus panel 1]

["Nobody on Earth could catch fish today!"] (Table of Contents)

Thimble Theatre Starring Popeye / comic story / 1 page (report information)

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Genre:

humor

Characters:

Popeye; Wimpy

Synopsis:

Wimpy uses a pelican to catch fish.

Reprints:

• from Thimble Theatre (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1938

["I won'er what Swee'pea is spendin' his money on?"] (Table of Contents)

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Genre:

humor

Characters:

Popeye; Swee'pea; Poopdeck Pappy

Synopsis:

Swee'pea buys some flowers for a girl baby. Pappy makes a play for the baby's nurse.

Reprints:

• from Thimble Theatre (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1938

["Ya'll have to give up yer sweetie on account of yer..."] (Table of Contents)

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Genre:

humor

Characters:

Popeye; Olive Oyl; Poopdeck Pappy

Synopsis:

Popeye tries to get Pappy's young girlfriend to break up with him, but Olive thinks he's making a play for her himself.

Reprints:

• from Thimble Theatre (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1938

["Imagine me Poppa wanting to get married..."] (Table of Contents)

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Genre:

humor

Characters:

Popeye; Poopdeck Pappy

Synopsis:

Popeye disguises himself as Pappy and learns Pappy's sweetie is only after his money.

Reprints:

• from Thimble Theatre (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1938

["My friend, would you like to hear the story of my life?"] (Table of Contents)

Thimble Theatre Starring Popeye / comic story / 1 page (report information)

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Genre:

humor

Characters:

Popeye; Wimpy; Rough-House

Synopsis:

Wimpy tries to tell the story of his life in exchange for a hamburger.

Reprints:

• from Thimble Theatre (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1938

["But, Poppa, I don't want any Momma!"] (Table of Contents)

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Genre:

humor

Characters:

Popeye; Wimpy; Poopdeck Pappy; Olive Oyl

Synopsis:

Pappy sends away for a mail-order bride, but uses Popeye's picture.

Reprints:

• from Thimble Theatre (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1938 ?

["All should be well if the hammer does not wake..."] (Table of Contents)

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Genre:

humor

Characters:

Popeye; Wimpy; Poopdeck Pappy; Rough-House

Synopsis:

Wimpy nails Popeye's shoes to the floor while he's taking a nap, then challenges him to step outside for a fight.

Reprints:

• from Thimble Theatre (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1938

["The person you love most should be careful today"] (Table of Contents)

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Genre:

humor

Characters:

Popeye; Olive Oyl

Synopsis:

Olive gets a fortune card from a machine that says a loved one should be careful today.

Reprints:

• from Thimble Theatre (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1938

["I'll show ya Poopdeck Pappy is stronger'n you"] (Table of Contents)

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Genre:

humor

Characters:

Popeye; Poopdeck Pappy; Olive Oyl

Synopsis:

Pappy and Popeye compete to see who's the strongest.

Reprints:

• from Thimble Theatre (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1938

["No, my new trousers do not fit - I'm too muscular..."] (Table of Contents)

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Genre:

humor

Characters:

Popeye; Olive Oyl; Wimpy

Synopsis:

Popeye tries to get Wimpy to jump rope so he can reduce.

Reprints:

• from Thimble Theatre (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1939

["Rasslin' will do it, Wimpy"] (Table of Contents)

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Genre:

humor

Characters:

Popeye; Wimpy

Synopsis:

Popeye and a wrestler go at it, while Wimpy sweats off pounds just watching.

Reprints:

• from Thimble Theatre (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1939

["There he is now"] (Table of Contents)

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Genre:

humor

Characters:

Popeye; Swee'pea

Synopsis:

Swee'pea adopts a pelican.

Reprints:

• from Thimble Theatre (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1939

["Greetings, my friend"] (Table of Contents)

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Genre:

humor

Characters:

Popeye; Wimpy; Rough-House

Reprints:

• from Thimble Theatre (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1939

Indexer Notes

Wimpy pretends to find a pearl in one of Rough-House's hamburgers.

["Mr. Geezil, I want you to entertain Olive"] (Table of Contents)

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Genre:

humor

Characters:

Popeye; Olive Oyl; George W. Geezil

Synopsis:

Olive plays "He loves me, he loves me not" by plucking whiskers from Geezil's beard.

Reprints:

• from Thimble Theatre (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1939

["Please stop following us. You are not invited..."] (Table of Contents)

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Genre:

humor

Characters:

Popeye; Wimpy; Olive Oyl

Synopsis:

Wimpy tags along on Popeye and Olive's picnic.

Reprints:

• from Thimble Theatre (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1939

["What a darling! Is she yours?"] (Table of Contents)

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Genre:

humor

Characters:

Popeye; Swee'pea; Poopdeck Pappy

Synopsis:

Swee'pea keeps getting kissed by a stranger.

Reprints:

• from Thimble Theatre (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1939

["Perhaps if I win a game of golf without using..."] (Table of Contents)

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Genre:

humor

Characters:

Popeye; Wimpy

Synopsis:

Wimpy challenges Popeye to a game of golf. He kicks the ball instead of using clubs and distracts Popeye by using ventriloquism to make Popeye's ball talk.

Reprints:

• from Thimble Theatre (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1939

["Good morning, my friend"] (Table of Contents)

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Genre:

humor

Characters:

Popeye; Wimpy

Synopsis:

Wimpy uses his ventriloquism to trick Popeye into paying for some bananas.

Reprints:

• from Thimble Theatre (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1939

["Escuse me! Wonder if they serves good spinach here?] (Table of Contents)

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Genre:

humor

Characters:

Popeye

Synopsis:

Popeye gets in a fight with a man in a restaurant over the benefits of spinach.

Reprints:

• from Thimble Theatre (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1939

["Let's spread our picnic lunch here"] (Table of Contents)

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Genre:

humor

Characters:

Popeye; Olive Oyl

Synopsis:

Popeye and Olive have a picnic at the beach, but Popeye is attacked by an octopus.

Reprints:

• from Thimble Theatre (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1939

["The police picked him up last night."] (Table of Contents)

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Genre:

humor

Characters:

Popeye; Wimpy; Rough-House

Synopsis:

Wimpy doesn't want to leave jail because they serve good hamburgers.

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• from Thimble Theatre (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1939

[The Spinach-Eating Gorilla] (Table of Contents)

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Genre:

humor

Characters:

Popeye; Wimpy

Synopsis:

Two professors import a gorilla who they teach to eat spinach. They match him up in a fight against Popeye to see who is better.

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• from Thimble Theatre (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1939

["My friend, I would like to ask if you believe in hypnotism"] (Table of Contents)

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Genre:

humor

Characters:

Popeye; Wimpy; Rough-House

Synopsis:

Wimpy tries to hypnotize Rough-House.

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• from Thimble Theatre (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1939

["Hello Popeye the Sailor Man, I am glad you are meeting..."] (Table of Contents)

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Genre:

humor

Characters:

Popeye; Wimpy; George Geezil

Synopsis:

Geezil invites Wimpy to his new seafood restaurant, which doesn't serve hamburgers.

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• from Thimble Theatre (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1939

["This is where I was to meet Olive. She is late as usual."] (Table of Contents)

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Genre:

humor

Characters:

Popeye; Olive Oyl

Synopsis:

Popeye decks a flower girl's stepfather after he slaps her for talking to a sailor.

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• from Thimble Theatre (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1939

["Plunging headlong into the raging waters our hero..."] (Table of Contents)

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Genre:

humor

Characters:

Popeye; Wimpy; Olive Oyl

Synopsis:

Olive wants Popeye to save her from drowning, but Wimpy comes instead and saves the lunch.

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• from Thimble Theatre (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1939

["Perhaps if I hold the dishcloth with a fork I will not get..."] (Table of Contents)

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Genre:

humor

Characters:

Popeye; Wimpy

Synopsis:

Wimpy is infatuated with the girl who is running Rough-House's restaurant while he's away,

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• from Thimble Theatre (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1939

["I shall go ask Popeye for a small loan"] (Table of Contents)

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Genre:

humor

Characters:

Popeye; Wimpy; George Geezil

Synopsis:

Wimpy tries to eat a live lobster.

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• from Thimble Theatre (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1939

["A child can operate this one"] (Table of Contents)

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Genre:

humor

Characters:

Popeye; Olive Oyl; Swee'pea

Synopsis:

Olive gets a new camera and takes it along when she and Popeye and Swee'pea go on a picnic.

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• from Thimble Theatre (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1939

["They saw us an' are flying orf"] (Table of Contents)

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Genre:

humor

Characters:

Popeye; Wimpy; George Geezil

Synopsis:

Wimpy shoots Geezil's duck decoys.

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• from Thimble Theatre (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1939

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Inside back cover; black, red, and white.

["Let the world smile at my efforts, I shall find..."] (Table of Contents)

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Genre:

humor

Characters:

Popeye; Wimpy; Swee'pea

Synopsis:

Wimpy buys a parrot and teaches it to say complimentary things about him.

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• from Thimble Theatre (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1939

Indexer Notes

Back cover.