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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'...
Popeye comic strips at Comics Kingdom (Dailies are Sagendorf reruns; Sundays by Randy Milholland; complete archive (including Hy Eisman-era Sunday strips) available via premium membership)Thimble Theatre comic strips at Comics Kingdom(Classic daily strips by Segar and later authors; complete archive available via premium membership)People also ask
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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.
Thimble Theatre Starring Popeye. Popeye originally debuted in Elzie Segar’s syndicated newspaper strip Thimble Theatre on January 17, 1929. Popeye’s popularity exploded, and within five years, he became one of the most well-liked comic strip characters—with comic strip reprints, theatrical cartoon shorts, radio programs, and ...
After the addition of the popular character Popeye the title of the comic strip was changed to “Thimble Theater Featuring Popeye The Sailor.”. Read the Thimble Theater comic strip from December 21, 2020, and check out other Thimble Theater comics by Elzie Crisler Segar.
Popeye the Sailor is a fictional cartoon character created by Elzie Crisler Segar. The character first appeared on January 17, 1929, in the daily King Features comic strip Thimble Theatre.
Jan 17, 2014 · Considered by many to be one of the greatest comics—and cartoon—characters of all time, Popeye was an unexpected success for Segar and the publishers of Thimble Theatre, and he went on to spawn...
