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| | TIME.com: -- Oct. 24, 1938 -- Page 1 |
 | | Elzie Crisler Segar, 43, comic-strip artist who created "Popeye the Sailor"; after long illness; in Santa Monica, Calif. Six hundred trademarked articles, a cinema cartoon and a radio program were named after Popeye. |
 | | Because spinach was his only food its sales boomed, and the grateful citizens of Crystal City, Texas, U.S. spinach-raising centre, put up a Popeye statue. |
 | | Three years ago, when Segar's comic strip appeared in. |
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