Popeye #56 for Sale - First Appearance of Uncle Elmo - Where to Buy

Identification plate

Series: Popeye (Dell, 1948 series)
Issue: #56
Publication date: November-December 1960
Key date: 1960-11-00
On-sale date: 1960-10-11
Indicia publisher: Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
Price: $0.10
Pages: 36

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Why this issue matters

First appearance of Uncle Elmo - 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	Popeye and His Robot Twin!	cover	1	pencils: Bud Sagendorf; inks: Bud Sagendorf	Olive Oyl, Popeye
1	Robot Twins!	comic story	16	script: Bud Sagendorf; pencils: Bud Sagendorf; inks: Bud Sagendorf	Olive Oyl, Popeye, The Sea Hag, Wimpy
2	De-Mings	comic story	9	script: Bud Sagendorf; pencils: Bud Sagendorf; inks: Bud Sagendorf	King Blozo, Popeye, Swee'pea
3	The First Frogman	text story	1	pencils: ? (illustration); inks: ? (illustration); letters: typeset	Uncle Elmo First
4	-	comic story	5.5	script: Bud Sagendorf; pencils: Bud Sagendorf; inks: Bud Sagendorf	John Sappo, O. G. Wotasnozzle

Where to read it

Collection	Year
Classic Popeye #56	2017	On eBay ›

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Before you buy

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Series context

‹ #5556 of 65#57 ›

Sources

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

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