POPEYE - E.C. Segar's Popeye #1 (Fantagraphics Books, November 2006)

Description: This series collects the complete run of Segar's comic strip Thimble Theatre (dailies and color Sundays) featuring Popeye. This striking volume, covering 1928-1930, follows his first adventures. These strips are masterpieces of comic invention. Fantagraphics' Popeye series will collect the complete run of Segar's Thimble Theatre comic strip (dailies and color Sundays) featuring Popeye, re-establishing Segar as one of the first rank of cartoonists who have elevated the comic strip to art. He was the most popular cartoonist of his day, his sense of humor coming straight out of Mark Twain, who also balanced exaggerated tall tales and a perfect ear for everyday speech with dark themes that undercut his laugh-out-loud stories. The series will consist of six volumes released annual through 2011. In this first volume, covering 1928-1930, Popeye's initial courtship of Olive Oyl takes center stage while Olive's brother Castor Oyl discovers the mysterious Whiffle Hen. Also, the entire cast meets the Sea Hag for the first time in their pursuit of the "Mystery House" (Popeye's first extended daily narrative), and Castor Oyl attempts to turn Popeye into a boxing champion in a series of hilarious Sunday strips. These strips are masterpieces of comic invention. Popeye's omnipotence pre-figures the rise of superheroes in the 1930s and 1940s, though Popeye is a much more sympathetic character, and his very name announces his vibrant personality. His mangled English pulsated with the vital spirit of immigrant America, its rhythm poetic in its own vulgar way: "I yam what I yam and tha's all I yam." Your books are packed and shipped by a Pro! We bag and board our books. They are then sandwiched in stiff cardboard before packing.We use low tack tape for easy removal of cardboard.We carefully pack our books to ensure they arrive as shown.We combine shipping!! The shipping amount shown above covers all books in the package. Request a new shipping total from your cart to combine multiple purchases. I will refund shipping overages if that doesn’t work.>>> INTERNATIONAL BUYERS CONTACT ME BEFORE PAYING-I CAN SAVE YOU MONEY ON COMBINED SHIPPING!! <<

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