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Issue Details

Issue #113
Published July 1946
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 52
Editing ?
Notes Indicia title is "POPEYE, No. 113". Code number is P.O.S. #114-467. (Note that code number does not match indicia issue number). Copyright 1946 by King Features Syndicate, Inc. First Popeye comic book to feature original material instead of newspaper strip reprints.

Cover Details - "Queen Olive"

Characters Popeye; Swee'pea; J. Wellington Wimpy
Genre humor
Pencils Bud Sagendorf
Inks Bud Sagendorf
Letters typeset
Notes Cover is not signed, but says "By Bud Sagendorf" in typeset letters. Cover relates to first interior story.

1 page Popeye foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "A chart, showing the travels of Popeye the Sailor..."

Characters Swee'pea (cameo)
Synopsis A chart showing the travels of Popeye the Sailor in the story of "Queen Olive."
Genre humor
Script Bud Sagendorf (signed)
Pencils Bud Sagendorf (signed)
Inks Bud Sagendorf (signed)
Letters Bud Sagendorf
Notes Inside front cover; black, red, and white. One full-page illustration.

35 page Thimble Theatre, starring Popeye and Olive story "Queen Olive"

Characters Popeye; Olive Oyl; J. Wellington Wimpy; Swee'pea
Synopsis Olive is kidnapped to become queen of the island of Olivoila. Popeye, Wimpy, and Swee'pea sail a ship to the island to rescue her.
Genre humor
Script Bud Sagendorf (signed)
Pencils Bud Sagendorf (signed)
Inks Bud Sagendorf (signed)
Letters Bud Sagendorf

13 page Thimble Theatre, starring Popeye! story "Nobody Loves Me" or "The Lonely Sailor Man"

Characters Popeye; Olive Oyl; Swee'pea; Rough House; J. Wellington Wimpy;
Synopsis Popeye can't figure out why all his friends are hitting him. As usual, Wimpy is the cause of the trouble.
Genre humor
Script Bud Sagendorf
Pencils Bud Sagendorf
Inks Bud Sagendorf
Letters Bud Sagendorf

1 page Thimble Theatre, starring Popeye story "Fish Trick"

Characters Popeye; Swee'pea
Synopsis Swee'pea goes fishing in a tiny trickle of water.
Genre humor
Script Bud Sagendorf (signed)
Pencils Bud Sagendorf (signed)
Inks Bud Sagendorf (signed)
Letters Bud Sagendorf
Notes Inside back cover; black, red, and white.

1 page Thimble Theatre, starring Popeye story "Special Delivery"

Characters Popeye; J. Wellington Wimpy
Synopsis Popeye leads a ruffian on a chase before knocking him out at the doctor's doorstep.
Genre humor
Script Bud Sagendorf (signed)
Pencils Bud Sagendorf (signed)
Inks Bud Sagendorf (signed)
Letters Bud Sagendorf
Notes Back cover.