Four Color
#127 - Popeye
(December 1946)
Dell,
1942 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 52
- On-sale Date
- 1946
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Dell Publishing Co., Inc.
- Brand
-
A Dell Magazine [circle]
- Printer
- Printed in U.S.A.
- Editing
- Helen Meyer
Issue Notes
Indicia title is "POPEYE, No. 127". No code number. Copyright 1946 by King Features Syndicate.
[no title indexed]
Popeye / cover / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- My Kingdom For a Horsh" or "It's Too Far To Walk!
- Genre
- humor; western-frontier
- Characters
- Popeye; Wimpy
Indexer Notes
Cover relates to the first interior story in the comic.
[Cats and Mice]
Popeye / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Popeye; J. Wellington Wimpy
- Synopsis
- Wimpy cures Popeye's mouse problem, but leaves him with a cat problem.
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover; black, white, and red.
"My Kingdom For a Horsh" or "It's Too Far To Walk!"
Thimble Theatre, starring Popeye / comic story / 32 pages
- Script
- Bud Sagendorf (signed)
- Pencils
- Bud Sagendorf (signed)
- Inks
- Bud Sagendorf (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Bud Sagendorf
- Genre
- humor; western-frontier
- Characters
- Popeye; Cole Oyl; Nana Oyl; Olive Oyl; J. Wellington Wimpy; Castor Oyl; Bad Bull Battle
- Synopsis
- Olive's brother Castor has discovered gold and Olive and Wimpy go west to visit him. Popeye follows, only to find that Olive has become engaged to Bad Bull Battle, owner of 50 gold mines.
"Two-To-One" or "Fifty Thousand Bucks Fer Two!"
Thimble Theatre, starring Popeye! / comic story / 16 pages
- Script
- Bud Sagendorf (signed)
- Pencils
- Bud Sagendorf (signed)
- Inks
- Bud Sagendorf (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Bud Sagendorf
- Genre
- humor; sports
- Characters
- Popeye; J. Wellington Wimpy; Swee'pea; Olive Oyl
- Synopsis
- Popeye is tricked into a boxing match with a small man named "Little Jim" and his huge brother "Big Jim" and has to fight both at the same time.
[Mistake in Identity]
Popeye / comic story / 1 page
- Script
- Bud Sagendorf (signed)
- Pencils
- Bud Sagendorf (signed)
- Inks
- Bud Sagendorf (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Bud Sagendorf
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Popeye; J. Wellington Wimpy; Rough House
- Synopsis
- Wimpy challenges Popeye to a race, then results to trickery to win the bet.
Indexer Notes
Inside back cover; black, white, and red.
[Eat Your Spinach!]
Popeye / comic story / 1 page
- Script
- Bud Sagendorf (signed)
- Pencils
- Bud Sagendorf (signed)
- Inks
- Bud Sagendorf (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Bud Sagendorf
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Popeye; Swee'pea
- Synopsis
- Swee'pea won't eat his spinach.
Indexer Notes
Back cover.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
["My Kingdom For a Horsh" or "It's Too Far To Walk!"]
Popeye -
1.
[Cats and Mice]
Popeye -
2.
"My Kingdom For a Horsh" or "It's Too Far To Walk!"
Thimble Theatre, starring Popeye -
3.
"Two-To-One" or "Fifty Thousand Bucks Fer Two!"
Thimble Theatre, starring Popeye! -
4.
[Mistake in Identity]
Popeye -
5.
[Eat Your Spinach!]
Popeye
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- Bob Hughes
- Mike Nielsen
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Merlin Haas
- Ray Bottorff Jr
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