More than a decade before creating the world's most famous cartoon sailor, Elzie Crisler Segar drew the Charlie Chaplin comic strip, a daily strip about Chicago entertainment, and then Thimble Theatre, where Popeye was to be born. This volume features examples of all of Segar's early comics and over[...]
A compilation of classic comic strips from the creator of the original Popeye cartoons follows the picaresque adventures of Popeye and his cohorts--Olive Oyl, Wimpy, Eugene the Jeep, the Sea Hag, and Alice the Goon--covering strips first published from 1928 to 1930.[...]
A second volume of original Popeye comics features work from 1930 to 1932, a period that introduces the character of Wimpy and features the stories, "A One-Way Bank," "The Great Rough-House War," and "Skullyville."[...]