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piefed.social

Context is actually pretty much what we see here. She wants to get wrecked by a big strong man:

It actually gets pretty weird from there:

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Well, it was part of the origins to the pornography censorship in Japan.

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Popeye, would it kill you too get some spinach in you and make that Olive Oyl extra non-virgin? Don't complain if she dumps you for Brutus.

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adultswim.fan

Had an ex like that with a SA fantasy. She broke up with me because I wouldn't pretend to rape her.

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jlai.lu

why not, did that not sit right with you ?

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lemmy.world

Do you happen to know the source? I'd like to add it to the post but I couldn't find it.

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startrek.website

By the time this comic was published (12/19/1937), it was being distributed in thousands of newspapers. The original artist died the next year. It's possible this is from a book with a collection of Thimble Theater comics, the company that holds the copyright has made a few since then

https://comicskingdom.com/vintage/thimble-theater/

Fwiw I don't see this comic on there but I found something else while looking:

http://www.oldsundaycomics.com/pics1/S1450-1024.jpg

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Thanks! I saw the Thimble Theater, but the newspaper one was new to me. Added it to my post.

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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:

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

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So even in context, it's what we think it is.

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I learned from looking up the source for this that Popeye made his animated debut in this Betty Boop cartoon. Interesting!

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