Updating late on a Friday evening, when no one’s gonna read it anyway.
Via Journalista, here’s a Comics Journal message board thread featuring very early, very pre-Popeye examples of E.C. Segar’s Thimble Theatre strip. Editor Kim Thompson doesn’t think much of them, but I think they’re kinda cute and amusing. Not a patch on the Popeye era, of course, but I wouldn’t say no to a collection of these.
A follow-up to this morning’s post, regarding the 7-11-distributed Radioactive Man comic…according to information provided by Commenter Phill and Pal Nat, we now know that one of the three featured stories (“The True Origin of Radioactive Man!”) is new to this publication, while the others are reprints. “The Amazing Radioactive Spider” is from Radioactive Man “#4” and “Planet Of The Strange-Os” is from Simpsons Comics #50.
And Nat was able to find his copy today, so maybe you’ll still get lucky and find one on a shelf still, too.
