The first years of the Sunday "Thimble Theatre", featuring Popeye the Sailor Man, with a "Sappo" strip at the top. Introduces Popeye, Olive Oyl, Sappo and Castor Oyl. I actually find the strip rather unpleasant and amateurish. The art is poor, the humor is weak or based on Popeye's shifting violence and generosity, and the people swing between kindness to the weak, and gratuitous violence and cruelty. Lord knows how the strip was so popular for so long, unless it mirrored the readers' own flaws and foibles. Foreword by Jules Feiffer. ( )