1930s comic strips

Freckles and His Friends Sundays. The following is an incomplete list of Beezer comic strips , organized by year of release date and in chronological order: Popeye in his first motion picture appearance, with Betty Boop in Popeye the Sailor. Popeye's pipe also proves to be highly versatile. The reason this weekly isn't listed in most guides as the first comic book is probably because it was published as a tabloid, rather than the size of a modern comic book.