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.

Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.: Fantagraphics Books, 1987. First Edition Stated . Hard Back. Near Fine/No Dust Jacket. 11" x 8 1/2. Segar, E. C.. 150 Pages. November 1987 First Fantagraphics Edition. Very minor, barely noticeable, cover edge and corner wear. No other noted defects. Bright, tight with no marks or stamps. Endpapers illustrated with Popeye strips.Black and white daily newspaper strips. Foreword by William DeMille titled the Cultural Politics of Popeyesians. He wrote these two strange figures, Mickey and Popeye, products of a humorous but desperate age, have won the hearts of those to we will, tomorrow, turn over the country.......It will be interesting to see which will dominate the future thought. He quotes a Mr. Gilbert --- Every boy and every girl, Who's born into this world alive, Is either a little Liberal, Or else a Conservative. DeMille closes his essay with So Mickey Mousians of today will be the New Dealers of tomorrow, wheras the Popeyesians will breed a race of Fascists.… Read More

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