Comical comics
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Page 17 of 34  Cover, Caspar the Friendly Ghost (Harvey, 1953). Art: Anon. One of the better 'kid' comics. Finally, but perhaps most famously, Elzie Crisler Segar's 'Thimble Theatre' was a soap which had been running since 1919, but which only really took off when the extended family of one 'Popeye the Sailor Man' was introduced in 1929: the constant perils threatening his wife Olive Oyl, and child Swee'pea, were warded off in a flurry of flying fists by the fearless seadog, fortified by his secret weapon: a can of spinach. (Legend has it that another character in the strip, J Wellington Wimpy, inspired the owners of a British fast-food chain to name their restaurants after him, due to his love of hamburgers.) |