Popeye has always been a sympathetic comic strip character since he was created. His first inception in comic strip form was crude, but so were many characters of that time. When he graced early animation, he took on a whole new life. His icon longevity is now reduced to aisle shopping in many stores with branded products that depict his face to sell products for companies. Not bad for a senior character that does not rely on new movies or books each year. Fantagraphics, a Sandbox World publisher favorite has the second volume to their Popeye series that prints the chronological order of E.C. Segar’s original Popeye (a.k.a. Thimble Theatre) comic strips from 1930-1932.
This second volume features work from 1930 to 1932, and most notably includes the debut of Segar’s second greatest character: J. Wellington Wimpy. Wimpy stands as a one-of-a-kind icon some 70 years after his creation, the most like-able lowdown cad ever to grace the comics page. Popeye Vol. 2 includes the stories: “Clint Gore” (continued from the cliffhanger last volume); “A One-Way Bank,” in which Popeye opens a bank that allows withdrawals but no deposits; a long war story featuring King Blozo that begins with “The Great Rough-House War”; and “Skullyville,” which wraps up the daily strips for this volume.
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