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Elzie Crisler Segar - Original Comic Strip Art

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Elzie Crisler Segar - Original Comic Strip Art
Elzie Crisler Segar - Original Comic Strip Art for Popeye Daily dated 6-18-35 (King Features Syndicate, 1935). In an amusing parody of America's belief in Manifest Destiny, Popeye, the one-eyed sailor man, "discovers" and claims a new continent for his very own. Unfortunately, the land he's discovered turns out to be England, as Popeye soon finds out when he meets none other than the Prince of Wales. A hilarious strip, with Popeye's trademark butchery of the English language (Popeye makes himself "absoluke dictipator" of his new land, for example), this is a great example featuring Popeye in every panel. With an image area of approximately 20.5" x 4.5" and in beautiful condition, there is an inscription in the top margin that reads, "To my friend Tom Little from the writer - Tom Sims" (Tom Sims was, indeed, the writer of Popeye at this time. He would take over the strip, along with artist Bela Zaboly, in 1938, following Segar's death. Tom Little, a Pulitzer prize-winning editorial cartoonist, was Sims' artistic partner on the strip Sunflower Street). This exceptional strip is signed by Segar in the last panel. Important notice: Heritage usually auctions material at the rate of 200-250 lots per hour. On some occasions eBay Live bid software or the Internet may not be able to keep up with the pace of the auction. We recommend placing a realistic absentee bid now as insurance to avoid disappointment. Occasionally the auctioneer may eliminate or reject an eBay Live bid, and the auctioneer may also reopen a lot after the close of the eBay live bidding (usually because we missed an audience bid), and may reject your bid even if it shows you as the winning bidder. By bidding via eBay Live, you agree that Heritage may award the lot to another bidder at its sole discretion under the circumstances described above or any other reasonable circumstances. Since eBay bids are not shown to us until we open the lot on the floor, we treat those bids just like floor bids. In most cases the floor responds before the eBay bid is presented to us, due to Internet lag time, so for consistency we have made it a policy that floor bids are always considered first over tie eBay live bids. Also please note that all Heritage lots purchased through eBay Live carry a 20% Buyer's Premium. Please make sure you read the Terms and Conditions before you bid.