FREE: Popeye USA 32 cent stamp used (auction 9 stamps)

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This is a used stamp from 1995. Will be sent USPS First Class Mail. No tracking.
U.S. #3000k
32¢ Popeye
Comic Strip Classics

Issue Date: October 1, 1995
City: Boca Rotan, FL
Quantity: 300,000,000
Printed By: Stamp Venturers
Printing Method: Photogravure
Perforations: 10.1
Color: Multicolored

 Elzie Crisler Segar’s Thimble Theatre, which began in 1919, had a relatively undistinguished beginning. Primarily featuring the spinsterish Olive Oyl and her brother Castor, the strip ran for nearly a decade before a one-eyed, pipe-smoking sailor named Popeye made his first appearance. An overnight success, Popeye immediately captivated the strip’s growing audience, and before long a series of other memorable characters – J. Wellington Wimpy, Swee’Pea, the Sea Hag, and the Jeep – followed.

 A self-taught artist, Elzie Segar grew up loving the newfangled motion picture. On sidewalks in front of the local theater, he drew comic-strip versions of current movies in chalk for friends. So not surprisingly, his legendary masterpiece, Thimble Theatre, began as a parody of movie serials. With the introduction of the popular Popeye his feature became so successful, that within a few short years, Segar was one of the highest-paid cartoonists in the world – his income far outstripping even that of the president of the United States. And so popular was the salty sailor, that Texas spinach growers erected a statue in his honor, claiming his endorsement saved their business during the dark days of the Great Depression.