The Complete E.C. Segar Popeye Volume 3 Sundays 1934-1936

The third of an 8-volume set that reprints E.C. Segar’s remarkable and complete Thimble Theatre strips during the Popeye years One of the immortal classics of comic-strip history! Volume 3 continues the essay from Volume 2, which are reprints of Salty Bill Blackbeard’s classic and timeless essay, “The Greatest Superhero of Them All.” which originally ran in Don Thompson’s and Dick Lupoff’s 1970 collection All In Color For A Dime. More than a decade before he created the worlds most famous cartoon sailor, Elzie Crisler Segar began his comics career in the movies. He drew cartoons for silent movie theater slides, the Charlie Chaplin comic strip, and a daily strip about Chicagos movies and entertainment. Then, in 1919, he penned his own small screen creation for the newspapers, Thimble Theatre, where Popeye was to be born a decade later. Out of Print. Condition: Fine. Slight cover edge wear, tipped corners and bottom corner page edge stain.