E.C. Segar,Rick Marschall
Alas, E.C. Segar, arguably the funniest cartoonist to ever lay ink on paper, died at the age of 44, leaving less that a decadeâ€™s worth of strips featuring his immortal creation Popeye â€” so this sixth volume of Segarâ€™s ,Popeye, is in fact the final one, enabling collectors to add the last â€œEâ€ to the P-O-P-E-Y-E spelled out on the spines of Fantagraphicsâ€™ smashing collection.,This final volume starts off in grand style with â€œMystery Melody,â€ featuring the terrifying return of the shape-shifting Sea Hag. Olive Oyl, Wimpy, Poop-deck Pappy, the Jeep, the newly domesticated Goon, and Toar all appear in this four-month epic, as does Bolo, the latest in Segarâ€™s cast of massive Popeye opponents.,Other stories include the melodramatic â€œA Sock for Susanâ€™s Sakeâ€ (Popeye becomes the protector of a girl who lives on the streets), Popeyeâ€™s boxing duel with King Smacko, the return of ,Thimble Theatre,â€™s original star Castor Oyl as a detective who solves the case of â€œPlastic Pan,â€ the Poopdeck Pappy yarn â€œWild Oatsâ€ (culminating in a six-month prison sentence for the rambunctious oldster), â€œThe Valley of the Goonsâ€ (in which Popeye is shocked to discover who the new leader of the Goons is), and the self-explanatory â€œKing Sweeâ€™Pea.â€,And thatâ€™s just the dailies! ,Popeye,, Volume 6, also includes 62 splendid full-page full-color Sundays, featuring further adventures of Popeye and an epically surreal six-month interplanetary voyage for Sappo, the star of ,Popeye,â€™s â€œtop strip.â€ The supplementary features include two historical articles by Popeye expert Rick Marschall (one on Popeyeâ€™s translation to the world of licensing and merchandising, and one on Segarâ€™s place in comics and pop culture history), an illustrated Segar-written biography of Popeye originally serialized in newspapers of the time, and more rare art and photos.
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Popeye, Vol. 6: Me Li'l Swee'pea