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Issue Details

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Published May 1979
Cover Price 8.95 USD
Pages 148
Editing ?
Notes Based on the characters created by Elzie Segar

Cover Details - "Popeye: The First Fifty Years"

Characters Popeye
Genre Humor
Pencils Bud Sagendorf
Inks Bud Sagendorf
Colors Paul Hanson
Notes Based on the characters created by Elzie Segar

3 page Popeye foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "Popeye: The First Fifty Years"

Characters Popeye; Brutus
Genre Humor
Pencils Bud Sagendorf
Inks Bud Sagendorf
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Notes Title page(s)

1 page Popeye credits "untitled"

Genre Fact
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1 page Popeye foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "Contents"

Characters Swee'pea
Genre Fact
Pencils Bud Sagendorf
Inks Bud Sagendorf
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1 page Popeye foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "Foreword"

Characters Bud Sagendorf
Genre Fact
Script Bud Sagendorf
Pencils ? (Photograph)
Inks ? (Photograph)
Colors ? (Photograph)
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27 page Popeye story "Setting the Stage"

Characters Popeye; Swee'pea; Olive Oyl; Castor Oyl; Ham Gravy; Nana Oyl; Cole Oyl; Whiffle Hen; John Sappo; Myrtle Sappo; Professor O.G. Watasnozzle
Genre Humor
Script Bud Sagendorf
Pencils Bud Sagendorf; E.C. Segar; George Herriman
Inks Bud Sagendorf; E.C. Segar
Letters Typeset
Notes Section also includes photographs of Elzie Crisler Segar (provided by Marie Segar Clausen), Popeye bronze statue in Elzie Crisler Segar Memorial Park, Chester, Illinois (by Leonard), Popeye inspiration Frank "Rocky" Feigle (provided by Clyde Seegle), and two photos (source unknown) of Segar at work; Popeye's Hometown (two-page spread drawn by Sagendorf).
Reprinted Thimble Theatre strips [Jan. 17, 1929 (1st Popeye appearance); Jan. 24-25, 1929 (Popeye meets Olive)]; The Five-Fifteen strip [Dec. 20, 1921; 1st Sappo appearance]

82 page Popeye story "The Cast of Characters"

Characters Popeye; Olive Oyl; Ham Gravy; Swee'pea; J. Wellington Wimpy; Brutus; Eugene the Jeep; Poopdeck Pappy; Alice the Goon; Sea Hag; Granny; Dufus; George W. Geezil
Genre Humor
Script Bud Sagendorf
Pencils Bud Sagendorf; E.C. Segar
Inks Bud Sagendorf; E.C. Segar
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Notes Section also includes photographs of Popeye statue in Crystal City, Texas (source unknown) and Wimpy model Bill Schuchert (provided by R. Eggmeyer); Popeye's Famous Punches of History; A Wimpy Day (or the Path of a Moocher Isn't Easy); Chart of the Eighth Sea--One of the Low Seas (two-page spread by Sagendorf); and The Supporting Cast (including King Blozo, Oscar, Toar, Roughhouse, etc.).
Reprinted Thimble Theatre strips [1929; 1930; 1936; 1935; 1978; 1960; 1931; 1937; 1965; 1933 (1st Swee'pea appearance, July 28, 1933); 1973; 1977; 1972; 1959; 1964; 1934; 1929 (1st Sea Hag; Dec. 26, 1929); 1968; 1971; 1970]

27 page Popeye story "Back Stage"

Characters Popeye; Wimpy; Swee'pea; Geezil; Olive Oyl; Beetle Bailey; Sam; Broom Hilda; Eugene the Jeep
Genre Humor
Script Bud Sagendorf
Pencils Bud Sagendorf; Mort Walker; Jerry Dumas; Russell Myers; Joe Musial; Tom Sims; Ralph Stein
Inks Bud Sagendorf; Mort Walker; Jerry Dumas; Russell Myers; Joe Musial; Doc Winner; Bill Zaboly
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Notes This section also includes: Popeye appearances in other comic strips; Sunday activity panels; fan mail; the author's favorite daily strips; Popeye Goes Hollywood (movie and TV appearances); Popeye collectibles (toys, puzzles, Big Little Books, puppets, etc.); comic books; Popeye's Ship "The Olive" (two-page spread by Sagendorf); Popeye Around the World (foreign strips from Sweden, France, Japan, Italy, and Greece); and The Page They Almost Didn't Print (Oct. 1, 1933).
Reprinted Beetle Bailey strip [Apr. 20, 1975]; Sam's Strip [Apr. 5, 1963]; Broom-Hilda [Jan. 4, 1973]; Thimble Theatre [1944; 1937; 1940; 1939; 1943; 1955; 1944; 1978]

1 page Popeye (backcovers) *do not use* / *please fix* "Blow Me Down! Fifty Years of Popeye!"

Characters Popeye; Bernard; Sea Hag; Poopdeck Pappy; Alice the Goon; Ham Gravy; Geezil; Dufus; Brutus; Toar; Roughhouse; Olive; Eugene the Jeep; Swee'pea; Wimpy; Whiffle Hen; Granny; Nana Oyl; Castor Oyl; Cole Oyl; Sappo; Professor O.G. Watasnozzle; King Blozo
Genre Humor
Pencils Bud Sagendorf
Inks Bud Sagendorf
Colors Paul Hanson
Letters Typeset