That's awesome. I have never seen that cover before. Guess people weren't as sue happy back then as that seems like a lawsuit waiting to happen.

Looks like he made a least one other appearance on a cover:

And around 10 years after his first appearance too! I'd never heard about Captain Strong, holy shit! DC should bring him back, Popeye is public domain now, so no lawsuits!

EDIT: He's appeared since then as well. And his girlfriend's name is Olivia Tallow.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Strong

And just because:

I thought Bibbo was the Popeye rip off in Superman. Or maybe just the way they drew him in the animated series?

Likely someone out there has a few. I come across many, many Silver Age issues in lower grades with either initials or names written on them, presumably from younger children at the time. Some wrote on the cover, others on the first page. Not so common with Bronze Age issues, but then again Bronze Age stuff isn't nearly as valuable most of the time so dealers are more prone tossing Bronze Age stuff with writing in them into the discard or junk piles. The practice virtually disappears by the mid-80s.

I never wrote my name or initials on my comics, but sometimes (around age 4 or 5) I would draw pupils on Batman & other masked characters. This was a product of too much Adam West Batman (if there is such a thing as too much Adam West Batman). I think I also have some faded panels due to Silly Putty.

Whitman must have been the only publisher putting out 69 cent comics. I have no recollection of this but I was strictly Marvel & DC by the mid-seventies. It's just in the past year or two that I started getting "kiddie" comics again. Ah, old age.

You must clutch the person next to you!

And this one just because I found it while looking at the others and thought it was funny. Men never change.

Is that right before they both die in a fiery car crash?

I believe they were doing what the kids are calling, "parking."

Since I just got the Taschen I was going to post the Amazing Spider-man issue #22 cover but saw there have been several Amazing Spider-man #22 covers on the various volumes released. Which is the cover? You decide!

I left off variants that were basically duplicates of each other.

The amount of variant covers nowadays is ridiculous. Did the comic industry learn nothing from The Dark Age?

That's a crazy number of Spidey covers. And no, I don't think they have learned anything. I'm just happy that I don't buy new comics these days (other than collected trade paperbacks), the excess of the 90s cured me of that.

I think those Disney books were smaller sized "digests", not normal format comic books. I had some of those as a kid, as well as Archie and DC digests. From what I remember, Marvel didn't publish a lot of those unlike Whitman/Archie/DC.

Some of these variant covers are probably what keeps some comic shops afloat.