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Popeye Feature Books (1937) 0

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    Popeye Feature Books (1937) 0

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    Stories, art and cover by E.C. Segar. Pioneering comics publisher David McKay's Feature Book was the first US comic book to devote complete issues to a single character. This issue (technically one of the first, but unnumbered) reprinted stories from the comic strip that introduced the world to Popeye the Sailor. Collects Thimble Theatre daily strips from March to July, 1936. Popeye meets Eugene the Jeep, a mysterious animal with multiple supernatural abilities (that later loaned its name to the U.S. Army's all-purpose vehicle, the jeep). 9-in. x 12-in., 96 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.