Thursday, May 26, 2011

The Book Behind the Cartoon??

Every so often I see this book pop up on ebay. It was strangely familiar - then I made the connection. An altered version of it was used in 'Adventures of Popeye' - the first, to my knowledge, 'cheater' cartoon made up of clips from older Popeye cartoons. Could this book have been the inspiration for making that cartoon??




Adventures of Popeye (1935)
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3 comments:

  1. JohnDoe123May 26, 2011 at 7:28 AM

    I hadn't seen that one before. Love the dubbing on the live action footage!

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  2. ShazamaholicMay 27, 2011 at 7:45 AM

    If I remember my "Comic Book Price Guide" correctly, this was the very first Popeye comic book ever published. It contained reprints of the newspaper strip - - no original material.

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  3. The Crazy HRMay 29, 2011 at 3:13 AM

    If the book really did contain the older comics, then the cartoon was probably based on it.

    Looks like Kneitel animated everything new here. There's no Crandall or Henning.

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