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CREATOR OF POPEYE DIES SANTA MONICA, Calif., Oct. 14. Ill for more than a year, E. C. Segar, nationally known cartoonist and creator of the famed comic figures, Popeye, the Salior, was dead today. He had been in and out of the hospital several times in the past year and was removed to his home several days ago. He suffered a relapse and died last night while in a coma. At his bedside were his wife, Myrtle, his seventeen-year-old daughter, Marie, and a son, Thomas, eleven. Segar was forty-three years old. Kings Feature Syndicate in New York, which has syndicated E C. Segar work ever since he first became a successful comic artist, announced that his strip and page will continue to be produced under the present title of "Thimble. Theater," starring Popeye, by the artist who has drawn the feature during Segars long illness.
