Four Color #26 - Popeye
(1943)

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Pages
68
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
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Printed in U.S.A.
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Issue Notes

Indicia title is "POPEYE, No. 26." Code number is P.O.S. No.26. Copyright 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939 by King Features Syndicate, Inc.

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Popeye / cover / 1 page (report information)

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Genre
humor
Characters
Popeye; Wimpy
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Keywords
chickens; eggs

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First Line of Dialogue or Text
We haven't seen a duck all morning
Genre
humor; adventure
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.

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I'm going to close up my cafe this afternoon...
Genre
humor; adventure
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]

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First Line of Dialogue or Text
Zupe, Wimpy boy, bring me zupe!
Genre
humor; adventure
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]

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First Line of Dialogue or Text
My gorsh, Wimpy, look at this poor little dorg
Genre
humor; adventure
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

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Pitiful, isn't it?
Genre
humor; adventure
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

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First Line of Dialogue or Text
How's business, Wimpy?
Genre
humor; adventure
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

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Smells mighty good - Say - Cook one for me...
Genre
humor; adventure
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]

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I heard Wimpy lost his restrunt - I suppose he et...
Genre
humor; adventure
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]

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Let Swee'pea play around the lake while I goes...
Genre
humor; adventure
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

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Ladies and gentlemen! I take great pleasure...
Genre
humor; sports; adventure
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]

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Good morning, good morning, my fair Waneeta.
Genre
humor; adventure
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]

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First Line of Dialogue or Text
So you're mad at Wimpy, eh, Geezil?
Genre
humor; adventure
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]

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Genre
humor; adventure
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]

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First Line of Dialogue or Text
Yer the limik, Olive! Are you still reading that...
Genre
humor; adventure
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]

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Yeah, I have news - I am going to open...
Genre
humor; adventure
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]

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First Line of Dialogue or Text
Geezil must be crazy, opening a cafe next door
Genre
humor; adventure
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]

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Genre
humor; science fiction; adventure
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.

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Hah! A little kid selling lemingade
Genre
humor; adventure
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]

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First Line of Dialogue or Text
I yam goner tell Wimpy jus' ezackly how awful he is
Genre
humor; adventure
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]

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First Line of Dialogue or Text
Bla-bla-phooey! Business is so rotten I could cry...
Genre
humor; adventure
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]

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First Line of Dialogue or Text
So ya let that tough kid hang a shiner on ya?
Genre
humor; adventure
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]

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First Line of Dialogue or Text
I hates to admit it at me age, I feels love creepin'
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]

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First Line of Dialogue or Text
Don't worry, I won't let the imposker get away...
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]

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First Line of Dialogue or Text
I'll never be able to live that down.
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]

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Nobody on Earth could catch fish today!
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

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I won'er what Swee'pea is spendin' his money on?
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

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Ya'll have to give up yer sweetie on account of yer...
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

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Imagine me Poppa wanting to get married...
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

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My friend, would you like to hear the story of my life?
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

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But, Poppa, I don't want any Momma!
Genre
humor
Characters
Popeye; Wimpy; Poopdeck Pappy; Olive Oyl
Synopsis
Pappy sends away for a mail-order bride, but uses Popeye's picture.
Reprints
  • US from King Comics (David McKay, 1936 series) #43 (November 1939)
  • which is reprinted
    • from Thimble Theatre Sunday (King Features Syndicate) 1938-11-xx
  • from Thimble Theatre (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1938 ?

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All should be well if the hammer does not wake...
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
  • US from King Comics (David McKay, 1936 series) #44 (December 1939)
  • which is reprinted
    • from Thimble Theatre Sunday (King Features Syndicate) 1938-12-25 - 1939-01-15
  • from Thimble Theatre (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1938

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The person you love most should be careful today
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

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I'll show ya Poopdeck Pappy is stronger'n you
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

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No, my new trousers do not fit - I'm too muscular...
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

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Rasslin' will do it, Wimpy
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

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First Line of Dialogue or Text
There he is now
Genre
humor
Characters
Popeye; Swee'pea
Synopsis
Swee'pea adopts a pelican.
Reprints
  • from Thimble Theatre (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1939

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First Line of Dialogue or Text
Greetings, my friend
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.

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First Line of Dialogue or Text
Mr. Geezil, I want you to entertain Olive
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

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Please stop following us. You are not invited...
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

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What a darling! Is she yours?
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

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Perhaps if I win a game of golf without using...
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

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First Line of Dialogue or Text
Good morning, my friend
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

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First Line of Dialogue or Text
Escuse me! Wonder if they serves good spinach here?
Genre
humor
Characters
Popeye
Synopsis
Popeye gets in a fight with a man in a restaurant over the benefits of spinach.
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  • from Thimble Theatre (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1939

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Let's spread our picnic lunch here
Genre
humor
Characters
Popeye; Olive Oyl
Synopsis
Popeye and Olive have a picnic at the beach, but Popeye is attacked by an octopus.
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  • from Thimble Theatre (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1939

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The police picked him up last night.
Genre
humor
Characters
Popeye; Wimpy; Rough-House
Synopsis
Wimpy doesn't want to leave jail because they serve good hamburgers.
Reprints
  • from Thimble Theatre (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1939

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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

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My friend, I would like to ask if you believe in hypnotism
Genre
humor
Characters
Popeye; Wimpy; Rough-House
Synopsis
Wimpy tries to hypnotize Rough-House.
Reprints
  • from Thimble Theatre (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1939

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Hello Popeye the Sailor Man, I am glad you are meeting...
Genre
humor
Characters
Popeye; Wimpy; George Geezil
Synopsis
Geezil invites Wimpy to his new seafood restaurant, which doesn't serve hamburgers.
Reprints
  • from Thimble Theatre (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1939

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This is where I was to meet Olive. She is late as usual.
Genre
humor
Characters
Popeye; Olive Oyl
Synopsis
Popeye decks a flower girl's stepfather after he slaps her for talking to a sailor.
Reprints
  • from Thimble Theatre (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1939

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Plunging headlong into the raging waters our hero...
Genre
humor
Characters
Popeye; Wimpy; Olive Oyl
Synopsis
Olive wants Popeye to save her from drowning, but Wimpy comes instead and saves the lunch.
Reprints
  • from Thimble Theatre (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1939

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Perhaps if I hold the dishcloth with a fork I will not get...
Genre
humor
Characters
Popeye; Wimpy
Synopsis
Wimpy is infatuated with the girl who is running Rough-House's restaurant while he's away,
Reprints
  • from Thimble Theatre (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1939

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I shall go ask Popeye for a small loan
Genre
humor
Characters
Popeye; Wimpy; George Geezil
Synopsis
Wimpy tries to eat a live lobster.
Reprints
  • from Thimble Theatre (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1939

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A child can operate this one
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.
Reprints
  • from Thimble Theatre (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1939

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They saw us an' are flying orf
Genre
humor
Characters
Popeye; Wimpy; George Geezil
Synopsis
Wimpy shoots Geezil's duck decoys.
Reprints
  • from Thimble Theatre (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1939

Indexer Notes

Inside back cover; black, red, and white.

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Let the world smile at my efforts, I shall find...
Genre
humor
Characters
Popeye; Wimpy; Swee'pea
Synopsis
Wimpy buys a parrot and teaches it to say complimentary things about him.
Reprints
  • from Thimble Theatre (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1939

Indexer Notes

Back cover.

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Table of Contents
  1. 0. [no title indexed]
    Popeye
  2. 1. ["We haven't seen a duck all morning"]
    Thimble Theatre
  3. 2. ["I'm going to close up my cafe this afternoon..."]
    Thimble Theatre
  4. 3. ["Zupe, Wimpy boy, bring me zupe!"]
    Thimble Theatre
  5. 4. ["My gorsh, Wimpy, look at this poor little dorg"]
    Thimble Theatre
  6. 5. ["Pitiful, isn't it?"]
    Thimble Theatre
  7. 6. ["How's business, Wimpy?"]
    Thimble Theatre
  8. 7. ["Smells mighty good - Say - Cook one for me..."]
    Thimble Theatre
  9. 8. ["I heard Wimpy lost his restrunt - I suppose he et..."]
    Thimble Theatre
  10. 9. ["Let Swee'pea play around the lake while I goes..."]
    Thimble Theatre
  11. 10. ["Ladies and gentlemen! I take great pleasure..."]
    Thimble Theatre
  12. 11. ["Good morning, good morning, my fair Waneeta."]
    Thimble Theatre
  13. 12. ["So you're mad at Wimpy, eh, Geezil?"]
    Thimble Theatre
  14. 13. [Swee'pea's Real Mother Returns]
    Thimble Theatre
  15. 14. ["Yer the limik, Olive! Are you still reading that..."]
    Thimble Theatre
  16. 15. ["Yeah, I have news - I am going to open..."]
    Thimble Theatre
  17. 16. ["Geezil must be crazy, opening a cafe next door"]
    Thimble Theatre
  18. 17. [The Men from Mars]
    Thimble Theatre
  19. 18. ["Hah! A little kid selling lemingade"]
    Thimble Theatre
  20. 19. ["I yam goner tell Wimpy jus' ezackly how awful he is"]
    Thimble Theatre
  21. 20. ["Bla-bla-phooey! Business is so rotten I could cry..."]
    Thimble Theatre
  22. 21. ["So ya let that tough kid hang a shiner on ya?"]
    Thimble Theatre
  23. 22. ["I hates to admit it at me age, I feels love creepin'"]
    Thimble Theatre Starring Popeye
  24. 23. ["Don't worry, I won't let the imposker get away..."]
    Thimble Theatre Starring Popeye
  25. 24. ["I'll never be able to live that down."]
    Thimble Theatre Starring Popeye
  26. 25. ["Nobody on Earth could catch fish today!"]
    Thimble Theatre Starring Popeye
  27. 26. ["I won'er what Swee'pea is spendin' his money on?"]
    Thimble Theatre Starring Popeye
  28. 27. ["Ya'll have to give up yer sweetie on account of yer..."]
    Thimble Theatre Starring Popeye
  29. 28. ["Imagine me Poppa wanting to get married..."]
    Thimble Theatre Starring Popeye
  30. 29. ["My friend, would you like to hear the story of my life?"]
    Thimble Theatre Starring Popeye
  31. 30. ["But, Poppa, I don't want any Momma!"]
    Thimble Theatre Starring Popeye
  32. 31. ["All should be well if the hammer does not wake..."]
    Thimble Theatre Starring Popeye
  33. 32. ["The person you love most should be careful today"]
    Thimble Theatre Starring Popeye
  34. 33. ["I'll show ya Poopdeck Pappy is stronger'n you"]
    Thimble Theatre Starring Popeye
  35. 34. ["No, my new trousers do not fit - I'm too muscular..."]
    Thimble Theatre Starring Popeye
  36. 35. ["Rasslin' will do it, Wimpy"]
    Thimble Theatre Starring Popeye
  37. 36. ["There he is now"]
    Thimble Theatre Starring Popeye
  38. 37. ["Greetings, my friend"]
    Thimble Theatre Starring Popeye
  39. 38. ["Mr. Geezil, I want you to entertain Olive"]
    Thimble Theatre Starring Popeye
  40. 39. ["Please stop following us. You are not invited..."]
    Thimble Theatre Starring Popeye
  41. 40. ["What a darling! Is she yours?"]
    Thimble Theatre Starring Popeye
  42. 41. ["Perhaps if I win a game of golf without using..."]
    Thimble Theatre Starring Popeye
  43. 42. ["Good morning, my friend"]
    Thimble Theatre Starring Popeye
  44. 43. ["Escuse me! Wonder if they serves good spinach here?"]
    Thimble Theatre Starring Popeye
  45. 44. ["Let's spread our picnic lunch here"]
    Thimble Theatre Starring Popeye
  46. 45. ["The police picked him up last night."]
    Thimble Theatre Starring Popeye
  47. 46. [The Spinach-Eating Gorilla]
    Thimble Theatre Starring Popeye
  48. 47. ["My friend, I would like to ask if you believe in hypnotism"]
    Thimble Theatre Starring Popeye
  49. 48. ["Hello Popeye the Sailor Man, I am glad you are meeting..."]
    Thimble Theatre Starring Popeye
  50. 49. ["This is where I was to meet Olive. She is late as usual."]
    Thimble Theatre Starring Popeye
  51. 50. ["Plunging headlong into the raging waters our hero..."]
    Thimble Theatre Starring Popeye
  52. 51. ["Perhaps if I hold the dishcloth with a fork I will not get..."]
    Thimble Theatre Starring Popeye
  53. 52. ["I shall go ask Popeye for a small loan"]
    Thimble Theatre Starring Popeye
  54. 53. ["A child can operate this one"]
    Thimble Theatre Starring Popeye
  55. 54. ["They saw us an' are flying orf"]
    Thimble Theatre Starring Popeye
  56. 55. ["Let the world smile at my efforts, I shall find..."]
    Thimble Theatre Starring Popeye
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