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List. Popeye the Sailor is a fictional cartoon character created by Elzie Crisler Segar. [43] [44] [45] [46] The character first appeared on January 17, 1929, in the daily King Features comic strip Thimble Theatre.
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Stories created by Segar
1919 Thimble Theatre made its debut on Friday, December 19, 1919. It started out as a gag-a-day strip parodying theatrical films, where every installment started with a cast list, indicating which characters Olive Oyl and Ham Gravywere playing. 1920 The cast list format would be dropped after January 2, 1920 (just 13 strips total) but the gag-a-day format continued. Gradually, it was established that Olive and Ham were longtime, suffering girlfriend-and-boyfriend, in a comically dysfunctional...
Post-Segar stories
1938-1939 Sims and Winner did two complete adventures as a team and began a third, before Winner left in late 1939. 1938 1. 12/12/1938 - 03/25/1939 "Spinach Juice Springs" 1939 1. 03/27/1939 - 08/12/1939 "Homeward Bound" 2. 08/14/1939 - 02/10/1940 "The Rainbird" 1939-1954 Bela Zabolytook over the art duties in December, 1939, and completed "The Rainbird". The Sims/Zaboly team would maintain Segar's practice of developing longer adventures. 1940 1. 02/12/1940 - 04/20/1940 "The Roving Champion"...
Stories created by Segar
Sundays serialized their own stories in parallel to the daily strip, and also alternated these storylines with standalone gags. 1925-1928 Segar's Sunday pages began on January 25, 1925 as a series of unrelated multi-panel gag strips. While he eventually drew stories or related gags spanning several weeks, the longer adventures did not start until 1928. 1926 1. 10/24/1926 - 10/31/1926 (The mechanical woman) 1927 1. 02/20/1927 - 03/06/1927 (Cylinda the bum cook) 2. 07/24/1927 - 07/31/1927 (Ham...
Post-Segar stories
1938 1. 10/30/1938 - 11/13/1938 (Pappy's young sweetie) 1939 1. 01/22/1939 - 02/05/1939 (Wimpy's new trousers) 2. 03/19/1939 - 04/02/1939 (Wimpy's ventriloquism) 3. 04/30/1939 - 05/28/1939 (Popeye vs. a spinach-fed gorilla) 4. 07/02/1939 - 07/09/1939 (The woman who hated sailors) 5. 12/10/1939 - 12/17/1939 (Swee'Pea laughs at Wimpy) 2023 1. 01/01/2023 - 01/29/2023 "Ham and Dregs" In an effort to prove he is just as good as Popeye, Ham Gravy, accompanied by Castor Oyl, sets out to best Popeye'...
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Thimble Theater Comic Strip 2020-12-21 | Comics Kingdom. Popeye first appeared in Elzie Crisler Segar’s comic strip “Thimble Theater” in 1929. The comic strip was started in 1919 and revolved around the character Olive Oyl.
from the first. comic strip (1929) Strip titles: --- "The Thimble Theatre" --- "The Thimble Theatre starring Popeye" --- "Popeye" Category: Comics. Genres: Adventure, Humor. Author: Elzie Crisler Segar. Country of origin: USA. First format: Daily strip on newspapers. First issue: December 19, 1919 - USA.
Nov 30, 2018 · One of comics’ greatest storytellers, Elzie Crisler Segar created a thoroughly American icon with the addition of the Spooneristic, squinty Popeye the Sailor. Popeye’s 1929 entrance in the daily Thimble Theatre marked a literal sea change in a decade-old strip.
Popeye ran as a component feature (in Thimble Theatre reprints) as part of King Comics (David McKay, 1936 Series) for 155 issues (1936-1949). Beginning in 1941, Popeye began a long and unbroken comic book run as the title character over several publishers: Dell, Gold Key (first series), King Comics (1960s), Charlton, Gold Key (second series ...
Castor Oyl is a fictional character, created in 1920 by cartoonist Elzie Crisler Segar for his comic strip Thimble Theatre, now known as Popeye. Publication history. Castor Oyl is Olive Oyl's older brother, debuting in Thimble Theatre on January 14, 1920.