King Features Comics

King attempted to sell its own comics during 1966-67. They were distributed on newsstands in 1966. In 1967, their comics were distributed in "King Paks," which contained 3 titles for 29 cents. The King Paks contained either adventure titles (Phantom, Mandrake, and Flash Gordon) or humor titles (Blondie, Popeye, and Beetle Bailey).

Prior to that, King Features did publish the copyright books, King Comics, King Features Illustrated Weekly and King Features Weekly, starting around 1936. These books originally took proof pages made from comic strips (and other feature and editorial non-comic material) intended for newspaper syndication, made reduced copies of the pages, bound them together under a title, and sent them to the Library of Congress to secure copyright on the material. Occasionally these titles surface publicly indicating that they might be offered for sale of subscription periodically.

King Features published several issues of the Popeye comic books from August 1966 through December 1967 under the King Comics brands. They also published other Popeye comic book under the King brand.

These classic Popeye comic book issues were preceded by Western Publishing.

August 1966 to December 1967

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Issue	Story Titles/Taglines	Issue Date
#81	"The Challenge" ("I love a homey feel to a room!") "Ugh!" "Lorst!" or "Little Kids Shouldn't Wander"	Aug 1966
#82	"The Key" "Curses! Phooey!" "Lily Pond!" "New Maid"	Oct 1966
#83	"Popeye and the S.O.C.K. (Society of Criminal Kooks!!)" "Ugh! I need a new broom!" "Round and Round!" ("You've done it again, you fantastic genius!") "One Hamburger"	Dec 1966
#84	"Spook Island" ("La-" "Da-") "Cave Warming" ("Bah!! How can a genius think in this house?") "The Great Balloon Fraud"	Feb 1967
#85	"The Test!" "The Big Bust" "The Heel!" ("It's robbery!") "The Lost Punch"	Apr 1967
#86	"Little Stranger" "Love That Sailor" "Truth!" ("Whee! I've done it!") "The Collectors"	Jun 1967
#87	"Mistooked!" ("I need a new approach in my war against Popeye!") "Laugh a Minute" ("Think! Thought! Think!") "Goon Hunt"	Jul 1967
#88	"Get the Picture" "The Welcoming Committee" "Girl Crazy" "The Artist!" "Cooking For Cannibals"	Aug 1967
#89	"The Great Train Robbery" "Jest Fun" "A Bath-Time Story" "The Pie Pie-Rat"	Sep 1967
#90	"Vacation" "Magic Hamburger Cook Book" ("One More Good Whack and I've Done It Again!") "Laugh A Minute"	Oct 1967

Issue	Stories	Issue Date
#91	"Chicken Big!" ("Popeye is having a birthday party and he didn't invite me!") "Laugh a Minute" ("Curses! Bah! Drat!") "The Rescue!"	Nov 1967
#92	"Love-In!" "A Shot in the Dark!" "Jest Fun" "Three Quickees" "Fun Office!" ("Hi, Pete! Watch 'cha reading?") "Test of Strength!"	Dec 1967

These classic Popeye comic book issues were followed by Charlton Comics.