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Four Color (1942-1962 Dell 2nd Series) 17 PR 0.5

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    Four Color (1942-1962 Dell 2nd Series) #17 PR 0.5
    Published 1943 by Dell.

    Four Color (1942-1962 Dell 2nd Series) 17 PR 0.5

    INCOMPLETE. Centerfold missing. Interrupts art and story. Cover detached. 1" cumulative spne split.

    Starts Jul 20

    Indicia title is "POPEYE AND WIMPY, No. 17." Untitled Thimble Theatre stories with Popeye and the gang. Pappy insists on sitting on tacks when he visits the Oyl family for dinner. Wimpy is mad at Pappy because he ordered food and then left Wimpy with the bill. Popeye takes Pappy to a party, but he makes a shambles of it. Popeye takes Pappy to another party. Pappy tricks the hostess into sitting on a tack. Pappy takes a mermaid to a dance, but Pooky Jones has to carry her and do the dancing. Popeye invents a machine to put a diaper on Swee'pea. Popeye improves his invention so that it gives babies a bath before putting on their diaper. Swee'pea is upset when he doesn't win a prize in the baby contest. Reprinted from Thimble Theatre (King Features Syndicate) strips. Scripts and art by E. C. Segar, some strips have art by Bela Zaboly. 68 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10. Grade: PR 0.5 explanation of grade Condition: Used (collectible)