Out of context Popeye

Panel from October 16, 1957 Thimble Theatre comic by Ralph Stein and Bill Zaboly: Popeye (in a submarine torpedo tube): When I says FIRE, shoot me outta here! Pappy (at the launch button): I yam proud t'call ya me son, Popeye! Erf erf

1957, Ralph Stein and Bill Zaboly

1957 newspaper image of cartoonist and writer Ralph Stein.

1960 newspaper image of cartoonist and writer Ralph Stein.

1962 newspaper image of cartoonist and writer Ralph Stein behind the wheel of a car.

Newspaper image of cartoonist and writer Ralph Stein and his wife and three children.

Things I learned about Ralph Stein:
In addition to working on the Popeye daily comic strip for 5 years, Stein wrote a car column for the Syracuse Post Standard.
He was the son of Russian-Jewish immigrants, who likely escaped the pogroms.
Before enlisting for WWII, he was a racecar driver!

Lost Popeye Zine, Volume 78: Irma th' 'Ermit's Youth Lotion! PDF Lost Popeye Zine, Volume 78 contains the storyline "Irma th' 'Ermit's Youth Lotion!".This story ran August 12, 1957. The writer and artist are Ralph Stein and Bill Zaboly, respectively.

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Panel from August 16, 1957 Thimble Theatre comic by Ralph Stein and Bill Zaboly: Sir Pomeroy (thrown out of a cave with a WHOO-SH, right into Popeye): My word! Popeye: AVAST!

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?

1957, Ralph Stein and Bill Zaboly

Lost Popeye Zine, Volume 77: The Lost Prince of Effluvia PDF Lost Popeye Zine, Volume 77 contains the storyline "The Lost Prince of Effluvia".This story ran June 3 - August 10, 1957. The writer and artist are Ralph Stein and Bill Zaboly, respectively.

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Panel from June 3, 1957 Thimble Theatre comic by Ralph Stein and Bill Zaboly: Hugo the parrot: Don't interrupt me, ya @!# swabs!

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!

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!

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!

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!

1957, Ralph Stein and Bill Zaboly

Lost Popeye Zine, Volume 76: More Private Lives of a Privateer! PDF Lost Popeye Zine, Volume 76 contains the storyline "More Private Lives of a Privateer!".This story ran April 1 - June 1, 1957. The writer and artist are Ralph Stein and Bill Zaboly, respectively.

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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!

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

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

1957, Ralph Stein and Bill Zaboly

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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!

1942, Swift & Company

Lost Popeye Zine, Volume 75: Grand Poo Bahr of Smoochistan PDF Lost Popeye Zine, Volume 75 contains the storyline "Grand Poo Bahr of Smoochistan".This story ran February 11 - March 30, 1957. The writer and artist are Ralph Stein and Bill Zaboly, respectively.

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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!!!

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!!

1957, Ralph Stein and Bill Zaboly

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t4t Olive and Popeye!

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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!

2025, @choochoobear.bsky.social

Lost Popeye Zine, Sundays Supplement, Volume 18: 1956 PDF This supplemental issue of Lost Popeye Zine collects the Sunday "Thimble Theatre" strips from 1956. These strips were written by Tom Sims and drawn by Bill Zaboly.

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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!!

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!!

1956, Tom Sims and Bill Zaboly

Popeye the Sailor #67 (1963). The cover features Popeye, Olive Oyl, Wimpy, and Swee’Pea looking on as the ghost of Patcheye the Pirate, Popeye’s great-grandfather, rises from a treasure chest. His parrot, Matey, sits on his shoulder.

Cover by Bud Sagendorf.

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!!

1956, Tom Sims and Bill Zaboly

Lost Popeye Zine, Volume 74: The Slippisippi Riverboat Race PDF Lost Popeye Zine, Volume 74 contains the storyline "The Slippisippi Riverboat Race".This story ran November 26, 1956 - February 9, 1957. The writer and artist are Ralph Stein and Bill Zaboly, respecti...

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