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Issue: Popeye Holiday Special #1972
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Indicia Publisher: Polystyle Publications Ltd
On Sale Date: 1972
Volume:
Pages: 48
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Price: £0.10 GBP
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 46 (39 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Colour Cover; Black and White Interior with a few colour pages
Dimensions: 28.7cm x 21,2cm
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Binding: Saddle-Stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Popeye; Swee'pea; Wimpy; Olive Oyl; Brutus; Granny; Poopdeck Pappy
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Rugby Riot

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Popeye: Swee'pea
Swee'pea! Swee'pea! Swee'pea!
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Sleeping Bruty

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Popeye: Swee'pea; Brutus
Wretched weeds!
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Mop Cut

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Popeye: Swee'pea; barber
Ha! Ha! Ha! Chrome dome!
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Bald Out

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Popeye; Wimpy
Popeye looks mad enough to eat his spinach without opening the can!
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Record Dance

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Olive Oyl; Popeye
I bought a new record and I'm dying to hear it!
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Wimpy By the Yard

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Popeye; Olive Oyl; Swee'pea
Tsk! Tsk! Tis always discouraging to finish breakfast!
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Small Time Scrounger

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Popeye; Wimpy
Yoo-hoo!! Popeye!
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Ham Actor

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Popeye; Wimpy
-and how are you today, good friend?
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Popeye's Puzzle Page
Popeye; Olive Oyl; Swee'pea; Wimpy
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Five picture puzzles with answers upside down at bottom.
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Kite Fright

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Popeye; Olive Oyl; Swee'pea
I am as good as any man!
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Footing the Bill

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Olive Oyl; Wimpy
-and- furthermore we're tired of being stepped on!
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Beauty In Disgust

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Olive Oyl; Popeye; Brutus
I am just as intelligent as any stupid man!
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Delicate Dame

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Popeye; Wimpy; Olive Oyl; Brutus
I has a date wit' Olive!
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Pot the Red

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Swee'pea; Popeye; Brutus; Granny; Wimpy
Why does Brutus get knocked out so often?
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Bus Stop Request

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Popeye; Swee'pea; Dufus
I yam sure pleased with the way Dufus and Swee'pea git along!
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Touchy Problems

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Dufus; Popeye
Why can't I help?
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Pot Art

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Popeye; Olive Oyl; Wimpy; art gallery owner
Ahoy, Wimpy!
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Caught Out

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Swee'pea; Popeye
Popeye! Catch it! Catch it!
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Nightgown Nightmare

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Popeye; Swee'pea; Dufus; Granny; Poopdeck Pappy
Time fer bed!
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Good Pow-Pose

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Popeye; Brutus; Wimpy
Phooey! I yam a failure!
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Daisy Dough

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Popeye; Swee'pea
I has a feeling today is me lucky day!
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Sad Sail Wail

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Popeye; Olive Oyl; Swee'pea; Wimpy; Granny
I hasta talk wit' someone about me problem!
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Popeye's Tall Ships Race Game

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Popeye; Olive Oyl; Swee'pea; Brutus; Wimpy; Dufus
A dice game for two players.
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Dice and counters game at centre spread. One large illustration.
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Pollution Solution

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Popeye; Swee'pea
When I was a kid I learned to swim in this pond!
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Can-Can Go

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Popeye; Olive Oyl
Ugh! Bah! This city is a disgrace!
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Scent To Sea

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Popeye; Olive Oyl
I guess I'll have to use trickery to get Popeye to propose!
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Off the Hook

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Popeye; Granny; Swee'pea; Wimpy; Poopdeck Pappy
Do you?
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Odd Cod

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Popeye; Olive Oyl
Today I love everyone!
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Did you know that
Flying fish do not fly
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Five items with illustrations and captions in the style of Ripley's Believe It or Not!
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More Haste Less Spade

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Popeye; Olive Oyl; Granny
Why is it every time I need help your boat needs painting?
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Painful Pane

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Popeye; Olive Oyl; Swee'pea
I can do anything you can!
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Salty Smiles
See who's at the door will you, Jenkins?
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Six gag cartoons all with a nautical theme.
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Block Buster

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Popeye; Olive Oyl; Brutus
You did it again yesterday!
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Crummy Mummy

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Popeye; Brutus; Butus's mum
So you let Popeye knock you out again?
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Boulder Brutus

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Popeye; Brutus; Swee'pea
Popeye's whole family is against me!
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Child's Play

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Popeye; Brutus; Swee'pea
Mirror mirror on the wall...
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Chu-Chin Pow

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Popeye; Brutus; Olive Oyl
Wait a minute!
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Popeye's crossword puzzle
Popeye (at feature title); Olive Oyl; Wimpy
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Crossword puzzle with picture clues.
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Apt Question

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Popeye; Swee'pea; Wimpy
Life just isn't a fair deal!
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Home Help

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Popeye; Swee'pea; Granny; Poopdeck Pappy
Swee'pea is gitten' real smart....
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Rough Passage

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Popeye; Swee'pea
Nobody has a right to tell nobody else what direction their ship is to sail!
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Blurred World

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Popeye; Swee'pea
Cherry!
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Low-Down Grown-Up

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Popeye; Swee'pea; Poopdeck Pappy
Phooey! Everythin' is built fer adults!
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Keeping Afloat

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Popeye; Swee'pea; Olive Oyl
Popeye! Popeye!
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TV Comic; Playland; Pippin; TV Action
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