The Complete E.C. Segar Popeye: Volume Six Dailies 1930-1931 (Complete E. C. Segar Popeye) by E. C. Segar - 1987-05

Fantagraphics Books, 1987. Popeye the Sailor is a comic strip character, later featured in popular animated cartoons. He was created by Elzie Crisler Segar,[1] and first appeared in the daily King Features comic strip Thimble Theatre on January 17, 1929. Segar's first Thimble Theatre strip was published on December 19, 1919. Shortly after Popeye's introduction, the sailor quickly became the main focus of the strip, ands Thimble Theatre became one of King Features' most popular strips during the 1930s. Thimble Theatre was carried on after Segar's death in 1938 by several writers and artists, including Segar's assistant Bud Sagendorf. The strip, now titled Popeye, continues to appear in first-run installments in Sunday papers, written and drawn by Hy Eisman. In 1933, Max and Dave Fleischer's Fleischer Studios adapted the Thimble Theatre characters into a series of Popeye the Sailor theatrical cartoon shorts for Paramount Pictures. These cartoons proved to be among the most… Read More

Westlake Village: Fantagraphics Books [0-930193-51-2] [1987], 1st printing. (Oblong 4to paperback) 150pp. Very good. Illustrations. Edited with introduction by Rick Marschall. Publisher series: Nemo Bookshelf. Foreword by William DeMille. Main character: Popeye. (Graphic Novels, Comic Strips).

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Fantagraphics Books, 1987-05-01. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!