Four Color #145 - First Appearance of King Blozo, Printings and Contents

Identification plate

Series: Four Color (Dell, 1942 series)
Issue: #145
Issue title: Popeye
Publication date: [May] 1947
Key date: May 1947
On-sale date: April 14, 1947
Indicia publisher: Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
Price: $0.10
Pages: 52

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Why this issue matters

First appearance of King Blozo - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

The evidence

Claims here come from the story records for this issue, listed under Sources at the bottom of the file. Character hubs with full evidence tables are coming to this site.

Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	-	cover	1	pencils: Bud Sagendorf; inks: Bud Sagendorf	Popeye
1	-	comic story	1	script: Bud Sagendorf; pencils: Bud Sagendorf; inks: Bud Sagendorf
2	Outdoor Boy, or, Please Let Me In the House!	comic story	32	script: Bud Sagendorf; pencils: Bud Sagendorf; inks: Bud Sagendorf	King Blozo First, Popeye
3	Big Blow,or, A Big Wind Is Just a Breeze If Ya Ain't Got a Mast Fer Yer Sail!	comic story	16	script: Bud Sagendorf; pencils: Bud Sagendorf; inks: Bud Sagendorf
4	-	comic story	1	script: Bud Sagendorf; pencils: Bud Sagendorf; inks: Bud Sagendorf
5	-	comic story	1	script: Bud Sagendorf; pencils: Bud Sagendorf; inks: Bud Sagendorf

Before you buy

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Series context

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Sources

Grand Comics Database, issue record (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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