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A mixed bag of covers from POLYSTYLE PUBLICATIONS, folks, with TV COMIC HOLIDAY SPECIALS from 1963, '79 & '80, and the 1972 & '86 POPEYE ones. I remember being fascinated with the Popeye Special from '72 - there was just something about the cover and the paper that, in their pristine state, exerted a curious hold on me - I just loved to gaze at it.
TV Comic was a great weekly for a good while, but declined in quality in later years, containing more and more reprints, until it was eventually cancelled in 1984 - a whopping 32 years ago that, to me, seems like only a half dozen at the very most. Strange how that works, eh? Did you ever buy any of the Holiday Specials, Crivs? What do you recall about them, if anything?
I used to love Popeye as a kid. But there seemed to be two different Popeyes doing the rounds, which was confusing. The one we see above and one in an all white sailor suit. One fought Bluto and one fought Brutus!
ReplyDeleteIncidentally, do you know Bluto's first name? ( no Googling! )
Yeah, the comic strip Popeye is the one in the black top, and the cartoon Popeye is the one in the white suit. Bluto was also called Brutus because of a misunderstanding of who owned the copyright to the character. It's now been established that Brutus and Bluto are twins. Nope, don't know his first name.
ReplyDeleteHo ho - looked it up. It's Pierre.
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