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A Fiersk an’ Arful Pirake

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D. D. Degg September 12, 2022 1 minute 1 comment

He is to Popeye

… what Ming is to Flash Gordon.

… what Bull Dawson is to Captain Easy.

… what Susie is to Calvin.

And though he was well-known to the sailor man,
and had been skulking around the ship for a week,
we first met him 90 years ago today.

The rest of the week:

 
 
 
 

© King Features Syndicate

The entire sequence, Bluto’s only appearance in creator E.C. Segar’s Popeye run,
is available in Fantagraphics wonderful collection of E. C. Segar’s Popeye –
specifically Volume Three “Let’s You And Him Fight.”

I don’t know if it ever ran in Comics Kingdom’s Vintage Thimble Theater.