I Yam What I Yam
“I YAM WHAT I YAM, I’M POPEYE THE SAILOR MAN!” by Edwina Campbell Popeye, one of the most iconic cartoon characters in the world, was created by Elzie Crisler Segar in 1929, and made his debut in the comic strip “Thimble Theater” part of the New York Evening Journal. History states that Popeye was based […]
Collecting The Marx
COLLECTING THE MARX MICKEY MOUSE METEOR TRAIN SET By Jim Engelage In the early 1950s Marx produced the Mickey Mouse Meteor Train set. It is a crossover collectible appealing to Disneyana collectors, tin toy collectors, and train collectors. The early version was a four-piece set including the locomotive, tender, gondola car and caboose (shown here). […]