“What do I care about a few broken ribs?!”

“I wanna be wrecked!”

Possible source: Thimble Theater printed 12/19/1937 (thanks FoxyFerengi and UnspecifiedGravity!)

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    8 days ago

    It is the 12/19/1937 Sunday Edition Thimble Theater comic. Not sure how widely syndicated it was but here is an auction listing for the page with a header from the Cleveland Plain Dealer:

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    Comic syndication is pretty damned weird and complicated, so I am not certain exactly who the official publisher is, but these were pretty widely distributed at the time so I expect that most papers that ran full color Sunday comics probably ran this one. Here is more reading about this piece of history:

    https://strippersguide.blogspot.com/2019/10/preserving-lost-era-of-popeyes-thimble.html