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- Nobody likes me!
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Popeye; Olive Oyl; The Sea Hag; Bernard (vulture)
- Synopsis
- Trying to be nice for a change, The Sea Hag invites Popeye and Olive to a party on her island. Popeye is skeptical.
- Keywords
- best of intentions; party; sea or island setting; skepticism; witch
Despite the story’s title, there is no mention of any “valentine”, or of “Valentine’s Day”, in the body of the story.
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- Oscar, you’re the dumbest character in town!
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Oscar; Dufus; Popeye; Wimpy
- Synopsis
- Does dumb Oscar have an intelligent twin brother named Roscoe? Dufus tries to find out.
- Keywords
- hoax; twin brother
Story title is billed as: "Thimble Theatre presents Oscar's Twin, Roscoe". "Thimble Theatre" refers to the original newspaper comic strip by E.C. Segar, for which Popeye was created.
The name of the character Dufus is spelled “Doofus” throughout this story.
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- Oscar decided to get even with Doofus, for calling him dumb.
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Oscar; Dufus (seen as tiny silhouettes only)
- Synopsis
- How did Oscar pull off his hoax, as seen in the previous story?
- Keywords
- logic puzzle
Determine which steps Oscar took, and the order in which he took them, to trick Dufus. Unnecessary steps are thrown in (to be considered and discarded), making this more difficult than the average children’s puzzle. The name of the character Dufus is spelled “Doofus” in this puzzle's text.
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- Can you find them?
- Genre
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- The Sea Hag
- Synopsis
- A black and white drawing of The Sea Hag has 13 weapons drawn into the normally blank area of her clothing. Shade-in the portions of the drawing marked with an "X" to reveal the weapons.
- Keywords
- pencil puzzle
"POPEYE appears in Whitman Comics" is typeset at the top of this page.
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- Genre
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- Wimpy; Brutus
- Synopsis
- Wimpy and Brutus also have their individual thoughts of "love".
- Keywords
- doing-something-their-own-way; love; thoughts
Theme continues from front cover illustration. Illustration shares back cover space with logo and ad copy for whichever firm is distributing the issue as a giveaway premium.