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Almost 70 years since Segar's death, Fantagraphics' Popeye collects the complete run of Segar's Thimble Theatre comic strip starring Popeye and re-establishes Segar as one of the unique geniuses who have elevated comics' status.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50172085469457,"sku":"CIN1560977795G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50265787629841,"sku":"CIN1560977795VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1560977795.jpg?v=1750958885"},{"product_id":"popeye-vol-2-book-ec-segar-9781560978749","title":"Popeye Vol. 2","description":"The second volume of the acclaimed hit series collecting the entirety of EC Segar's original Popeye, both full-colour Sundays and black-and-white dailies. Beautifully designed and packaged, this volume begins with a forward by Beetle Bailey creator Mort Walker and continues with an introduction by noted film and cartooning critic Donald Phelps. Popeye Volume 2, which includes the end of 1930 to 1932, introduces Segar's second-greatest character after Popeye: the hamburger-addicted J. Wellington Wimpey!","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50265799557393,"sku":"CIN1560978740G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1560978740.jpg?v=1750991744"},{"product_id":"thimble-theatre-the-pre-popeye-comics-of-e-c-segar-book-ec-segar-9781683967705","title":"Thimble Theatre \u0026 the Pre-Popeye Comics of E.C. 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Segar's early comics and illustrations, with over 100 pre-Popeye \u003ci\u003eThimble Theatre\u003c\/i\u003e Sunday pages including the complete run of the famed Western desert saga, a series that rivals his later work in superb art, storytelling, and humor.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNewly revised and expanded, this new printing contains ten additional pages plus a 1920s-style Sunday comics section insert paying tribute to Segar and his comic creations featuring \u003ci\u003eCharlie Chaplin's Comic Capers\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePopeye\u003c\/i\u003e's \"The Jeep.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eText and illustrations offer an in-depth history and commentary on the life and work of E. C. Segar by historians Paul C. Tumey and Jeet Heer, and best-selling author and journalist Michael Tisserand. \u003ci\u003eThimble Theatre\u003c\/i\u003e is an essential part of any comics lover's library.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":50550335242513,"sku":"NGR9781683967705","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51153496178961,"sku":"NIN9781683967705","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1683967704.jpg?v=1750765120"},{"product_id":"popeye-vol-3-book-ec-segar-9781560979623","title":"Popeye Vol. 3","description":"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 Phelps's incisive and articulate critical essay on Segar's 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.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52100754669841,"sku":"CIN1560979623G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53560232280337,"sku":"CIN1560979623VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781560979623.jpg?v=1757090767"},{"product_id":"popeye-volume-4-book-ec-segar-9798875000010","title":"Popeye Volume 4","description":"This dynamic concluding volume introduces a curious creature from the fourth dimension - Eugene the Jeep! The minute this mysterious marvel with the power of teleportation arrives on the scene, the strip is infused with an oddball, otherworldly quality. Elsewhere, Wimpy continues his befuddling antics; the wily orphan Swee'Pea and the patriarch Poopdeck Pappy cause domestic hijinks; and Popeye does battle with the big bad Man from Mars! Plus, contemporary artist Kayla E. pens a comic homage to the topsy-turvy character headlining this volume. An irresistible alchemy of screwball comedy, tender romance, and rags-to-riches fantasy, Elsie Crisler Segar's newspaper comic strip, starring Popeye the sailor man, captivated readers of the Roaring Twenties and beyond. Fantagraphics is thrilled to bring Segar's whimsical world back into print, collecting the complete Popeye Sunday stories in four gorgeous full-color volumes, each packaged in a die-cut vertical slipcase.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":53612673859857,"sku":"NGR9798875000010","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9798875000010.jpg?v=1780314847"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/de-de\/collections\/autor-buecher-von-ec-segar.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}