num_pages: 168
description: The third volume (of six) of the acclaimed hit series collecting the entirety of E.C. Segar's original Popeye (a.k.a. Thimble Theatre) comic strips features work from 1932 to 1934. In addition to the daily and Sunday strips this volume will present a true collectors item: Segars never-reprinted two-week Worlds Fair continuity. In 1933 in addition to the normal daily and Sunday continuities Segar produced a special two-week sequence of extra-large strips (two to three tiers each) in which Wimpy and Popeye travel to Chicago to take in the Worlds Fair. Olive Oyl is left behind on account of she aint wide-minded but Olive has other ideas and follows Popeye to make sure he isnt flirting with any pretty girls. This sequence has never been republished since its original publication 75 years ago.Stories in this volume include The Eighth Sea a nautical thriller-diller starring in his only appearance in the actual Segar Popeye strip Bluto (plus the shape-shifting detective Merlock Jones); Long Live the King and Popeye King of Popilania; Star Reporter in which Popeye juggles his career as a newspaperman and a recent adoptive Dad to the one and only Swee'pea. Plus over a year's worth of great full color Sunday strips many of them focusing on everyone's favorite glutton Wimpy!This volume also contains the conclusion of Donald Phelpss incisive and articulate critical essay on Segars work Real People Real Theatre.E.C. Segar blended complex narratives slapstick traditions brilliant characterization and an inimitable cartooning style to create the most exciting and profound humor of his era rivaling the great film comics of his era such as Charlie Chaplin and the Marx Brothers. Discover this American treasure in this handsomely designed series perfect for all ages.
language: English
title: Popeye, Vol. 3: Let's You and Him Fight!
publisher: Fantagraphics