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Out of context Popeye
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Panels from Popeye/Thimble Theatre comics, mostly Tom Sims & Bela Zaboly’s run from 1939-1958. Susie the Sea Nymph stan account
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1957, Ralph Stein and Bill Zaboly
Panel from September 4, 1957 Thimble Theatre comic by Ralph Stein and Bill Zaboly: Irma (to her daughter): Now we'll HAVE to lock them up! -- But where?
November 24, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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1957, Ralph Stein and Bill Zaboly
Panel from June 3, 1957 Thimble Theatre comic by Ralph Stein and Bill Zaboly: Hugo the parrot: Don't interrupt me, ya @!# swabs!
November 22, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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1957, Ralph Stein and Bill Zaboly
Panel from June 5, 1957 Thimble Theatre comic by Ralph Stein and Bill Zaboly: Popeye (shaking his right fist in the air): I YAM gonna see that he gets his rightful rights! Sir Pomeroy: Hear! Hear!
November 22, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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1957, Ralph Stein and Bill Zaboly
Panel from August 8, 1957 Thimble Theatre comic by Ralph Stein and Bill Zaboly: Von Shlump: HELP! HELP! Rescue me from my countrymen! Popeye (peeking out of a submarine porthole): Arf! Arf! Sir Pomeroy (also peeking out of a porthole): Heh! Heh! Angry Effluvians yelling, some holding sign reading "Down with Von Shlump", others holding bottles. Effluvian 1: To jail with him! Effluvian 2: Throw him out! Effluvian 3: Out with him!
November 18, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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1957, Ralph Stein and Bill Zaboly
Panel from June 7, 1957 Thimble Theatre comic by Ralph Stein and Bill Zaboly: Pommy: Prince Swee'Pea--Sir Pomeroy--10th Earl of Vauxhall, at Your service, Your Royal Highness! Popeye: Swee'Pea--y'looks diffrink than what I remembers ya! Swee'Pea (in a sailor suit with shorts): I got sick of wearing 'at silly dress, Popeye! I yam a big boy now!
November 18, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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1957, Ralph Stein and Bill Zaboly
Panel from April 4, 1957 Thimble Theatre comic by Ralph Stein and Bill Zaboly: Bluto (at the helm): I, Bluto, have JUST declared WAR!! Har! Har! Har! Har! Har! Har!
November 16, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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1957, Ralph Stein and Bill Zaboly
Panel from May 3, 1957 Thimble Theatre comic by Ralph Stein and Bill Zaboly: Sir Pomeroy (hammer fist striking two pirates on the top of their heads with a BOK): Here's the message!
November 15, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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1957, Ralph Stein and Bill Zaboly
Panel from April 20, 1957 Thimble Theatre comic by Ralph Stein and Bill Zaboly: Popeye (whispering to parrot): Make like a cannon again, Hugo! Parrot: Me-ow-w
November 15, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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1957, Ralph Stein and Bill Zaboly
Panel from April 2, 1957 Thimble Theatre comic by Ralph Stein and Bill Zaboly: Bluto: ...y' surprises me! ... Talkin' like that after we been CHUMS fer so many years...I'll let yez out when we is out t'sea an' y'can't EXCAPE! HAR-HAR HAR
November 12, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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1942, Swift & Company
Panel from 1942 "Eat right to work and win" comic: Popeye (standing in front of a victory garden): Blow me down! An' here I bin confinin' meself to spinach!
November 12, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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1957, Ralph Stein and Bill Zaboly
Panel from March 2, 1957 Thimble Theatre comic by Ralph Stein and Bill Zaboly: Popeye and Sir Pomeroy up a tree with a giant saber-toothed tiger open-mouthed below them. Cattoo Doonya: GRR Popeye: Now I'll hafta use stragedy!! Pommy: Please DO! Old boy...PLEASE!!!
November 9, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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1957, Ralph Stein and Bill Zaboly
Panel from February 15, 1957 Thimble Theatre comic by Ralph Stein and Bill Zaboly: Popeye and Sir Pomeroy look at a photograph. Popeye: I'll be keel-hauled!!! Pommy: By jove! It's monstrous!! MONSTROUS!!
November 4, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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2025, @choochoobear.bsky.social
Panel from November 2, 2025 Thimble Theatre comic by Randy Milholland: Linden (walking away from Sea Hag): Get a hobby. Sea Hag (in front of a crystal ball): Hating IS a hobby!
November 3, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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1956, Tom Sims and Bill Zaboly
Panel from June 10, 1956 Thimble Theatre comic by Tom Sims and Bill Zaboly: Unnamed woman (standing on beach in heels for some reason): Hello, Popeye, how are you?? Popeye (with smoking pipe): Okay now, but I wasn't!!
October 28, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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1956, Tom Sims and Bill Zaboly
Panel from January 15, 1956 Thimble Theatre comic by Tom Sims and Bill Zaboly: Popeye (looking at a spelling textbook): ? No wonder he ain't feelin' so good!! Half the words in'a book are spelled wrong!!
October 28, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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1956, Tom Sims and Bill Zaboly
Panel from March 11, 1956 Thimble Theatre comic by Tom Sims and Bill Zaboly: Wimpy (holding a set of handlebars): Useless, you might say, and yet who knows?? Anything at all may prove useful if one is hungry!!
October 15, 2025 at 4:57 AM
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1957, Ralph Stein and Bill Zaboly
Panel from January 21, 1957 Thimble Theatre comic by Ralph Stein and Bill Zaboly: Pappy (at the helm of his riverboat): We're closin' up on th' Griselda, but FASK! Erf erf Popeye (to Pappy's right): I don't like this! Sir Pomeroy (holding onto a column of the wheelhouse with his left hand and his hat with his right): I can barely stand up in the gale we're making!
October 5, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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1957, Ralph Stein and Bill Zaboly
Panel from January 7, 1957 Thimble Theatre comic by Ralph Stein and Bill Zaboly: Pappy (at the helm of his steamboat): ... not if I c'n figger out some underhanded way o' winnin'!
October 4, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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1956, Ralph Stein and Bill Zaboly
Panel from December 5, 1956 Thimble Theatre comic by Ralph Stein and Bill Zaboly: Pappy (at the helm): I won this here steamboat FAIR AN' SQUARE--usin' me best set o' MARKED CARDS....
October 4, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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1955, Ralph Stein and Bill Zaboly
Panel from November 28, 1956 Thimble Theatre comic by Ralph Stein and Bill Zaboly: Exterior of an airplane. Popeye: I wonders what kind o' pre-dickle-ment me pappy is in THIS time! Sir Pomeroy: We'll know soon--the Slippisippy River is just ahead!
September 24, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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1956, Ralph Stein and Bill Zaboly
Panel from December 8, 1956 Thimble Theatre comic by Ralph Stein and Bill Zaboly: Cats rain down on Sir Pomeroy and Popeye. Popeye: Now they're shootin' CATS! Hunnerds o' CATS!
September 9, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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1956, Ralph Stein and Bill Zaboly
Panel from November 7, 1956 Thimble Theatre comic by Ralph Stein and Bill Zaboly: Madame La Gonga: ...you'll stay in that cage as long as I say so!
September 9, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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1956, Ralph Stein and Bill Zaboly
Panel from October 17, 1956 Thimble Theatre comic by Ralph Stein and Bill Zaboly: Monty (shocked): HORRORS!
September 9, 2025 at 5:58 AM
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1956, Ralph Stein and Bill Zaboly
Panel from October 8, 1956 Thimble Theatre comic by Ralph Stein and Bill Zaboly: Sir Pomeroy and Popeye running away from their problems. Pommy: In fact, we'd better leave RIGHT NOW! Oh, I say, taxi! Bureau of Foreign Affairs: STOP! You owe us $4,000,000! Popeye: Avast! Platinum Lil: Pommy, darling, don't leave me!
September 7, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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1956, Ralph Stein and Bill Zaboly
Panel from September 12, 1956 Thimble Theatre comic by Ralph Stein and Bill Zaboly: Exterior of a round satellite. Sir Pomeroy: AFRAID, old boy? Popeye: I ain't scairt o' NOTHIN'! G'wan, PULL IT!
September 3, 2025 at 5:49 AM