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Popeye the Sailor is a fictional cartoon character created by Elzie Crisler Segar. [17][18][19][20] 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)Elzie Crisler Segar (/ ˈ s iː ɡ ɑːr /; [1] December 8, 1894 – October 13, 1938), known by the pen name E. C. Segar, was an American cartoonist best known as the creator of Popeye, a pop culture character who first appeared in 1929 in Segar's comic strip Thimble Theatre.
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.
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 ...
The Thimble Theatre, first daily strip (New York Journal, December 19, 1919). In this strip four characters made their debut: Olive Oyl, her first boyfriend Harold Hamgravy, and her parents Nana and Cole Oyl.
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Owing to Popeye's increasingly high profile, Thimble Theatre became one of King Features' most popular strips during the 1930s. A poll of adult comic strip readers in the April 1937 issue of Fortune magazine voted Popeye their second-favorite comic strip (after Little Orphan Annie).
