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  • Illustration OCR: THIMBLE THEATER Starring POPEYE-By E. C. Segar WHY'RE YA TAKIN' A INTREST IN MEJUDGE? WELLI LIKE YOUR FACE. IT'S UGLYBUT IT LOOKS HONEST I YAM HONEST AN I YAM MIGHTY PROUD) OF IT NEXT WEEK YOU'RE TO HAVE A JURY TRIAL I YAM NOT GOIN' TO |JAIL YETCONSTABLE. YAM GOIN' OVER AN HAVE A TALK WITH YER WIFE JUDGETHE JUDGE MOST ONERY CUSS YOu N FREED SUSAN AND NOW SHE CANT STAY IN YER SWELL LITTLE JAIL-WILL YOU TAKE CARE OF HER FOR YESILL TAKE CARE A WHILE OF YOUR SISTER EVER SEEN? HE'S MY PRISONERBUT HE DOES JUST AS HE PLEASES-AND YOU GRIN LIKE A NINNY! SHE AIN'T ME SISTER) OHTHEN SHES YOUR NOSHE AINT ME WIFE BUT- BUT 10ONT HARDLY KNOW WHO SHE IS iWIFE I'LL HAVE TO TAKE YOU BACK TO JAIL ANOW WHYI DONT UNDERSTAND THIMBLE THEATER Starring POPEYE-By E. C. Segar WHY'RE YA TAKIN' A INTREST IN MEJUDGE? WELLI LIKE YOUR FACE. IT'S UGLYBUT IT LOOKS HONEST I YAM HONEST AN I YAM MIGHTY PROUD) OF IT NEXT WEEK YOU'RE TO HAVE A JURY TRIAL I YAM NOT GOIN' TO |JAIL YETCONSTABLE. YAM GOIN' OVER AN HAVE A TALK WITH YER WIFE JUDGEAIN'T HE THE MRS. SODWELLTHE JUDGE MOST ONERY CUSS YOu N FREED SUSAN AND NOW SHE CANT STAY IN YER SWELL LITTLE JAIL-WILL YOU TAKE CARE OF HER FOR YESILL TAKE CARE A WHILE OF YOUR SISTER EVER SEEN? HE'S MY PRISONERBUT HE DOES JUST AS HE PLEASES-AND YOU GRIN LIKE A NINNY! SHE AIN'T ME SISTER) OHTHEN SHES YOUR NOSHE AINT ME WIFE BUT- BUT 10ONT HARDLY KNOW WHO SHE IS iWIFE I'LL HAVE TO TAKE YOU BACK TO JAIL ANOW WHYI DONT UNDERSTAND

    Wed, June 2, 1937

    Thimble Theater

    By Elzie Crisler Segar
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  • Illustration OCR: HUMPH !! IT LOOKS LIKE TH' LITTLE JAYBIRD'S BEEN LEFT ALL BY HIMSELF--- 'AT'S A FINE HOW D'YE DO !! 'SPOSE A BEAR OR SUMP'N SHOULD COME MESSIN AROUND OR A WILDCAT-- IT'S OUTRAGEOUS ! THESE HILL-BILLIES- NO RESPONSIBILITY ! THEY'RE JUST AS IGNORANT AN BACKWARD TODAY AS THEY WERE A HUNDRED YEARS AGO. KEERFUL WIF VORE SARCASTICAL REMARKSMISTOFER GOOGLE ONLESS YORE HANKERIN TO GIT A RIFLE BALL BOUNCED OFF'N YORE PUNKIN HAID- GLUB GLUB Billy DEBEG 6-2 Cipr. 1931Ine Werldrighes seserved. HUMPH !! IT LOOKS LIKE TH' LITTLE JAYBIRD'S BEEN LEFT ALL BY HIMSELF--- 'AT'S A FINE HOW D'YE DO !! 'SPOSE A BEAR OR SUMP'N SHOULD COME MESSIN AROUND OR A WILDCAT-- IT'S OUTRAGEOUS ! THESE HILL-BILLIES- NO RESPONSIBILITY ! THEY'RE JUST AS IGNORANT AN BACKWARD TODAY AS THEY WERE A HUNDRED YEARS AGO. KEERFUL WIF VORE SARCASTICAL REMARKSMISTOFER GOOGLE ONLESS YORE HANKERIN TO GIT A RIFLE BALL BOUNCED OFF'N YORE PUNKIN HAID- GLUB GLUB Billy DEBEG 6-2 Cipr. 1931King Foturee SvndicatrIne Werldrighes seserved.

    Wed, June 2, 1937

    Barney Google And Snuffy Smith Vintage

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  • Gesture OCR: WHO DYNAMITED NILES AS HE WAS ABOUT TO EXPOSE YOUR FATHER'S CROOKED DEALS? KINGI CANT PROVE WHO DID KILL NILESBUT IF YOU AND DAVÉ NEVER COME CAME TO THE HARPER RANGE. HE IS HARD AND MERCILESSBUT MY FATHER DID- N'T KILL JED NILES! THEN WHO DIDMISS HARPERE SOMEONE WHO WORKS FOR L FATHER IS DOUBLE-CROSSING HIMINTO SITUATIONS 7 LIKE THIS T'S A TRAPTHEY WHY DON'T YOU TRUST MEDAVE WEVE KNOWN EACH OHER ALL OUR LIVES. HOW CAN I TRUST ... YOUMARLENE? BACK FROM HARPER'S RANGE! Capy (Stephern SleungerInc raght (Kang Features SyndikateInc 1937 World rigles rexrved KING DISREGARDS NILES' WARNING AND RIDES TO MEET HARPER ON HIS OWN GROUND WHO DYNAMITED NILES AS HE WAS ABOUT TO EXPOSE YOUR FATHER'S CROOKED DEALS? KINGI CANT PROVE WHO DID KILL NILESBUT IF YOU AND DAVÉ NEVER COME CAME TO THE HARPER RANGE. HE IS HARD AND MERCILESSBUT MY FATHER DID- N'T KILL JED NILES! THEN WHO DIDMISS HARPERE SOMEONE WHO WORKS FOR L FATHER IS DOUBLE-CROSSING HIMINTO SITUATIONS 7 LIKE THIS T'S A TRAPTHEY WHY DON'T YOU TRUST MEDAVE WEVE KNOWN EACH OHER ALL OUR LIVES. HOW CAN I TRUST ... YOUMARLENE? BACK FROM HARPER'S RANGE! Capy (Stephern SleungerInc raght (Kang Features SyndikateInc 1937 World rigles rexrved KING DISREGARDS NILES' WARNING AND RIDES TO MEET HARPER ON HIS OWN GROUND

    Tue, June 1, 1937

    King of the Royal Mounted

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  • People OCR: SECRET AGENT X-9-The G-Man's Clue Is Lady Fingers By Charles Flanders JODINE FUMES ARE BLOWN THROUGH A TUBE ONTO THE SKIN SURFACE AND. B'GADTHOSE FUMES DO DRAW OUT THE PRINTSJ AND INTER- FROM HIS THROAT!J ESTING PRINTSCERTAINLY- GOOD HEAVENS A CASE OF MURDERMISS WHAT IS ME PBUT BECAUSE THE FINGER- PRINTS ON YOUR LATE BOSS' THROAT WERE MADE BY AWOMAN! WHYP THIS ?/ NICOL-YOUVE SOMÉ EXPLAINING TO DO! SCIENCE'S NEW WONDER SUDDENLY THE DOOR OPENS FINGER PRINTS AND IODINE FUMES SECRET AGENT X-9-The G-Man's Clue Is Lady Fingers By Charles Flanders JODINE FUMES ARE BLOWN THROUGH A TUBE ONTO THE SKIN SURFACE AND. B'GADTHOSE FUMES DO DRAW OUT THE PRINTSJ AND INTER- FROM HIS THROAT!J ESTING PRINTSCERTAINLY- GOOD HEAVENS A CASE OF MURDERMISS WHAT IS ME PBUT BECAUSE THE FINGER- PRINTS ON YOUR LATE BOSS' THROAT WERE MADE BY AWOMAN! WHYP THIS ?/ NICOL-YOUVE SOMÉ EXPLAINING TO DO! SCIENCE'S NEW WONDER SUDDENLY THE DOOR OPENS FINGER PRINTS AND IODINE FUMES

    Tue, June 1, 1937

    Secret Agent X-9

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  • Parallel OCR: THIMBLE THEATER Starring POPEYE-By E. C. Segar HE'S SURE Y YES-IT LOOKS GIVIN' ME HECK. JUDGE LADIES AND GENTLEMEN- I ASK YOU-WHAT KIND OF A COURT IS THIS? HE MUST BE BROUGHT TO JUSTICE-NOT ONLY FOR BREAKING ONE OF OUR LAUWSBUT ALSO FOR SOCKING ME ON THE JAW PIF OUR JUDGE WONT GIVE US JUSTICETHEN HE SHOULD BE TRIED BY Á JURY THINK YOU'D BET TER AGREE TO A JURY TRIAL- IF I LET YOU OFF IT WILL LOOK BAD A JURY WILL PROBALY GIVE ME PLEN'Y PST. ALMOST EVERY MAN IN TOWN OWES ME MONEY-I'LL SEE THAT THE JURY GIVES YOU A SQUARE DEAL BAD- HE'S TURNING THE CROWO AGAINST THE JUDGE SEEMS YOU TO BE ON THE DEFENDANTS ) SIDE 1 Kurg Teare SIne THIMBLE THEATER Starring POPEYE-By E. C. Segar HE'S SURE Y YES-IT LOOKS GIVIN' ME HECK. JUDGE LADIES AND GENTLEMEN- I ASK YOU-WHAT KIND OF A COURT IS THIS? HE MUST BE BROUGHT TO JUSTICE-NOT ONLY FOR BREAKING ONE OF OUR LAUWSBUT ALSO FOR SOCKING ME ON THE JAW PIF OUR JUDGE WONT GIVE US JUSTICETHEN HE SHOULD BE TRIED BY Á JURY THINK YOU'D BET TER AGREE TO A JURY TRIAL- IF I LET YOU OFF IT WILL LOOK BAD A JURY WILL PROBALY GIVE ME PLEN'Y PST. ALMOST EVERY MAN IN TOWN OWES ME MONEY-I'LL SEE THAT THE JURY GIVES YOU A SQUARE DEAL BAD- HE'S TURNING THE CROWO AGAINST THE JUDGE SEEMS YOU TO BE ON THE DEFENDANTS ) SIDE 1 Kurg Teare S

    Tue, June 1, 1937

    Thimble Theater

    By Elzie Crisler Segar
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  • Font OCR: YESMOUSE THAT DEAR KAT AND I ARE TOUCHED WITH ILS OF A LIKE NATURE OH. SLOWED|| BUT YOU WILL UPAWFUL AWFUL - YESI AM DOING YOU ? MY BEST TO CATCH LIP SOI'u BEGIN By JUGGING YOu FOR LAST TUESDAY's. BRICK-TOSSING SLOWED UP - So YOUARE WAN WISTFUL AND WEAZÉNED SHKOP ? JUST LIHE THAT FOO KAT CATCH UP WONT ?H ? Cep hatu bndate. In Wme he NHe YESMOUSE THAT DEAR KAT AND I ARE TOUCHED WITH ILS OF A LIKE NATURE OH. SLOWED|| BUT YOU WILL UPAWFUL AWFUL - YESI AM DOING YOU ? MY BEST TO CATCH LIP SOI'u BEGIN By JUGGING YOu FOR LAST TUESDAY's. BRICK-TOSSING SLOWED UP - So YOUARE WAN WISTFUL AND WEAZÉNED SHKOP ? JUST LIHE THAT FOO KAT CATCH UP WONT ? H ? Cep hatu bndate. In Wme he NHe

    Tue, June 1, 1937

    Krazy Kat

    By George Herriman
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  • Line art OCR: AIN'T HE ATRESHURPAW ?? I SW'AR IT WHELMS ME PLUMB OVER TO SEE TH LEETLE JAYBIRD SO ROSY-JAWED AN BRIGHT-EYED AN PEART--- GIT TH SKILLET HOTTEDMAW--- (M GOIN DOWN TH HOLLER AN SHOOT A COUPLE O RABBITS FOR BREAKFUS- HIT'S NO USE-- I HAIN'T GOT TH STRENTH To PULL YE KNOW HE'S TH SPT?IN IMAGE O' MEMAW-- HIT WOULDNT SUSPRISE ME IF TH' LEETLE FELLAR TARNED OUT TO BE PRES'DENT o TH NEWNITED STATES OR SUNTHIN. Billy DEBECH Cepr. 1937King Fratures Syndicate. Ine. World rights resened. AIN'T HE ATRESHURPAW ?? I SW'AR IT WHELMS ME PLUMB OVER TO SEE TH LEETLE JAYBIRD SO ROSY-JAWED AN BRIGHT-EYED AN PEART--- GIT TH SKILLET HOTTEDMAW--- (M GOIN DOWN TH HOLLER AN SHOOT A COUPLE O RABBITS FOR BREAKFUS- HIT'S NO USE-- I HAIN'T GOT TH STRENTH To PULL YE KNOW HE'S TH SPT ? IN IMAGE O' MEMAW-- HIT WOULDNT SUSPRISE ME IF TH' LEETLE FELLAR TARNED OUT TO BE PRES'DENT o TH NEWNITED STATES OR SUNTHIN. Billy DEBECH Cepr. 1937King Fratures Syndicate. Ine. World rights resened.

    Tue, June 1, 1937

    Barney Google And Snuffy Smith Vintage

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  • Finger OCR: BRICK BRADFORD-Adrift in an Atom STILL KNOCKED OUTEH ? By WILLIAM RITT and CLARENCE GRAY WELLILL TAKE A LOOK AT HIM ! MAYDE I CAN BRING HIM TO MAYBE A LITTLE WATER WILL BRING HIM OUT MIST GET THAT 1 KEY SOMEHOW TE COPVRICHT1931 KING FEATURES SYNDICATE In YARENCE CRAY BRICK BRADFORD-Adrift in an Atom STILL KNOCKED OUTEH ? By WILLIAM RITT and CLARENCE GRAY WELLILL TAKE A LOOK AT HIM ! MAYDE I CAN BRING HIM TO MAYBE A LITTLE WATER WILL BRING HIM OUT MIST GET THAT 1 KEY SOMEHOW TE COPVRICHT1931 KING FEATURES SYNDICATE In YARENCE CRAY

    Tue, June 1, 1937

    Brick Bradford

    By William Ritt & Clarence Gray
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  • Line OCR: BRICK BRADFORD-Adrift in an Atom By WILLIAM RITT and CLARENCE GRAY YESYOU'VE SHATTERED OUR LITTLE SATELLITE AND SAVED US! AND NOW I MUST GET AT MY CALCULATIONS IN ORDER TO DETERMINE WHAT SPEED OF APPROACH AND DIMINUTION WE MUST UTILIZE TO Y ENTER THE HEART OF THIS UNIVERSE IN SAFETY! MEANWHILEILL TAKE A LOOK AT ÉGOOUR PRISONERAND SEE HOW HE IS GETTING Y ALONG! AN EXCELLENT IDEABRICK- -31 CORICHT 19. KIN LATRES SYADICATEBRICK BRADFORD-Adrift in an Atom By WILLIAM RITT and CLARENCE GRAY YESYOU'VE SHATTERED OUR LITTLE SATELLITE AND SAVED US! AND NOW I MUST GET AT MY CALCULATIONS IN ORDER TO DETERMINE WHAT SPEED OF APPROACH AND DIMINUTION WE MUST UTILIZE TO Y ENTER THE HEART OF THIS UNIVERSE IN SAFETY! MEANWHILEILL TAKE A LOOK AT ÉGOOUR PRISONERAND SEE HOW HE IS GETTING Y ALONG! AN EXCELLENT IDEABRICK- -31 CORICHT 19. KIN LATRES SYADICATE

    Mon, May 31, 1937

    Brick Bradford

    By William Ritt & Clarence Gray
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  • Sleeve OCR: SECRET AGENT X-9-The G-Man's Wool From a Black Sheep By Charles Flanders SHOULDNT I NOTIFY NOT YETIM GOING TO SEARCH FORFINGER-PRINTS! BUT YOU CANT BRING OUT FINGER-PRINTS ON FLESH AN ORDINARYY RIPPED FROM A MAN-OR A WHERE ? LOOKS THERE PROBABLY WAS A STRUGGLE- MAYBE ON THE DEAD MAN'S THROAT... HOPELESS C TO ME ! NO? DID YOU EVER NE-FLIMES- --WAITWHAT'S THIS? PIECE OF G WOMANS SUITCAPTAIN-- THATS GOING TO SOLVE THE THE POLICE ? SERGE! MR. PINEDEALER IN "FAKE" ARTS MURDEROF MR PINE! MURDERED ABOARD THE EREHWON SECRET AGENT X-9-The G-Man's Wool From a Black Sheep By Charles Flanders SHOULDNT I NOTIFY NOT YETIM GOING TO SEARCH FORFINGER-PRINTS! BUT YOU CANT BRING OUT FINGER-PRINTS ON FLESH AN ORDINARYY RIPPED FROM A MAN-OR A WHERE ? LOOKS THERE PROBABLY WAS A STRUGGLE- MAYBE ON THE DEAD MAN'S THROAT... HOPELESS C TO ME ! NO? DID YOU EVER NE-FLIMES- --WAITWHAT'S THIS? PIECE OF G WOMANS SUITCAPTAIN-- THATS GOING TO SOLVE THE THE POLICE ? SERGE! MR. PINEDEALER IN "FAKE" ARTS MURDEROF MR PINE! MURDERED ABOARD THE EREHWON

    Mon, May 31, 1937

    Secret Agent X-9

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  • Publication OCR: SHE'S EMPEROR" HARPER'S L DAUGHTER! SHE WAS SPYING THROUGH THE DOOR WHEN I RODE UP TO TELL YOU WHO KILLED NILES-AND THE EMPEROR? TO HELP YOU GET HIM! NOTHING IN THE OLD NEWSPAPER Y KING! I'VE CAUGHT..T'S A GIRL I WASN'T SPYING! I-I CAME HERE - EVEN IF IT's DYNAMITE FILES OFFERS ANY ACTUAL PROOF MARLENE HARPER! BOMB SEALS THAT HARPER OLD JED NILES' LIPS AS HE IS ABOUT TO TELL KING HOW EMPEROR THADDEUS HARPER RULES THE CATTLE COUNTRY BY MURDER AND FORCE AND KING TAKES UP THE HUNT KING IS BROUGHT TO HIG FEET AS THE RETURNING DAVE NILESSON OF THE MUR- DERED EDITORMAKES Á SURPRISE CAPTURE KING SCARCELY BELIEVES THAT HARPERS DAUGHTER WOULD TURN AGAINST HER FAHER WHO PROBABLY MURDERED THE EDITOR Cepy Stephe SkunprIes EM 1King Falure SyndicateIn SHE'S EMPEROR" HARPER'S L DAUGHTER! SHE WAS SPYING THROUGH THE DOOR WHEN I RODE UP TO TELL YOU WHO KILLED NILES-AND THE EMPEROR? TO HELP YOU GET HIM! NOTHING IN THE OLD NEWSPAPER Y KING! I'VE CAUGHT..T'S A GIRL I WASN'T SPYING! I-I CAME HERE - EVEN IF IT's DYNAMITE FILES OFFERS ANY ACTUAL PROOF MARLENE HARPER! BOMB SEALS THAT HARPER OLD JED NILES' LIPS AS HE IS ABOUT TO TELL KING HOW EMPEROR THADDEUS HARPER RULES THE CATTLE COUNTRY BY MURDER AND FORCE AND KING TAKES UP THE HUNT KING IS BROUGHT TO HIG FEET AS THE RETURNING DAVE NILESSON OF THE MUR- DERED EDITORMAKES Á SURPRISE CAPTURE KING SCARCELY BELIEVES THAT HARPERS DAUGHTER WOULD TURN AGAINST HER FAHER WHO PROBABLY MURDERED THE EDITOR Cepy Stephe SkunprIes EM 1King Falure Syndicate

    Mon, May 31, 1937

    King of the Royal Mounted

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  • Font OCR: ODEE. CDBEODES THE SPIDD THE PEPP I ONCE HAD AIN NO Mo SLOWED UP SOME ?KAT ? WERRAWERRA SLOW DOLIN! CANT You CATCH UP? HERE IT IS SUMMA TIME AN I'M JESS GETTIN MY SPRING FIVVA WIL NOW DO SOME OF MY NEXT) WINTER'S BRICK- TOSSING IT ISINDEED Luti N e . M ye e ODEE. CDBEODES THE SPIDD THE PEPP I ONCE HAD AIN NO Mo SLOWED UP SOME ?KAT ? WERRAWERRA SLOW DOLIN! CANT You CATCH UP? HERE IT IS SUMMA TIME AN I'M JESS GETTIN MY SPRING FIVVA WIL NOW DO SOME OF MY NEXT) WINTER'S BRICK- TOSSING IT ISINDEED Luti N e . M ye e

    Mon, May 31, 1937

    Krazy Kat

    By George Herriman
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