At Navy HQ a Marine reveals Sanji’s bounty photo came out solid black because the photographer “took the cap off the lens” — i.e. forgot to, so the film developed blank — forcing a crude hand-drawn sketch in its place (“Why don’t we have a photo of him?”) (pp. 3-4). Establishes the recurring “Sanji’s bounty likeness is always wrong” gag. Pending.
The payoff
(Pending — the running gag that Sanji’s true likeness is never captured on a wanted poster recurs forward.)
Earliest known caller
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Why this matters
A prop-tell played as a running gag: the bounty poster — a recurring series prop — is set up to NEVER render Sanji’s real face, seeding a long-running joke whose first instance reads as a one-off mishap.