"What do I care about a few broken ribs?!"
"I wanna be wrecked!"
Possible source: Thimble Theater printed 12/19/1937 (thanks FoxyFerengi and UnspecifiedGravity!)
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Do you happen to know the source? I'd like to add it to the post but I couldn't find it.
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
Thanks! I saw the Thimble Theater, but the newspaper one was new to me. Added it to my post.
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