Adventures in Comic-Boxing: Popeye and "Th' Power of Posik-tive Thinkin'!"

 

Popeye's been in some tight squeezes before, but he "thinks-up" a rather unconventional means of escape from this one, as seen in POPEYE # 107 (Charlton Comics, Cover Date: April 1971)! 

You'd normally expect the python to coil around Popeye so tightly that his trusty can of spinach pops out of his shirt and is forced opened by the pressure, allowing the strength-supplying weed to land directly in his mouth. 

But that's not exactly what happens here... 

Watch as Popeye literally THINKS the can of spinach into existence!  

How about THAT, folks!  

The Charlton POPEYE comics were as... er, "unconventional" as one might expect from Charlton...

...And they did enough unusual things with the Popeye characters to make them interesting! 

George Wildman was certainly not the artist that both E.C. Segar and Bud Sagendorf were...

 
But, his style somehow suited the generally weird goings-on of the Charlton run...

...As the cover of POPEYE # 107 shows!  

 Or this one - Issue 116.  

Thus, he seemed the perfect choice for a strange and surreal sequence such as this!

We'll let Popeye have the final word on his spinach materialization trick ...

"I THINKS, there-fore, I YAM!" 

 Toot! Toot!