So the misadventures of Olive Oyl and her beau, Ham Gravy (and her brother, Castor Oyl), were meant to parody the over-the-top films of the era when it launched in 1919, to the point where Olive ...

The main character at the time (Castor Oyl) needed to hire a sailor for an adventure that he was going on, and Popeye got the job. As shown in the comic strip above, Castor Oyl approaches Popeye ...

In Popeye’s first strip, the characters Ham Gravy (Olive’s onetime fiance) and Castor Oyl ... “Olive Oyl is a millennial at this point,” he says of the sailor’s forever love interest.

And Castor Oyl, who's Olive Oyl's brother, comes up to him and says, hey, there, you a sailor? and Popeye's very first words, he says, you think I'm a cowboy? INSKEEP: (Laughter).

It was initially focused on Olive Oyl, her brother Castor Oyl and Olive’s boyfriend, Harold Hamgravy. 1920s: The Introduction of Popeye January 17, 1929: Popeye the Sailor debuts in the Thimble ...

Segar needed a sailor for his long-running daily comic, "Thimble Theatre," for the Jan. 17, 1929, strip. Popeye was recruited from the local docks to take the main character, Castor Oyl, to an island.

The focus settled on Olive Oyl and her family -- father, mother and stubby, money-mad brother Castor -- and Ham Gravy, her nondescript suitor. It took nearly a decade, or about 3,500 strips, for ...

A character named Castor Oyl, brother of Olive, approached a seaman who's immediately recognizable, though his forearms and head are less exaggerated than what's evolved on the familiar modern ...

Tintin, the seminal hero of the pulp genre of boy adventurers, enters the United States public domain in 2025, though in a way that probably wouldn’t please his creator Hergé very much.

Castor Oyl, is Olive’s brother; Cole Oyl is Olive’s father; with Nana Oyl being Olive’s mother. Olive’s first boyfriend was Ham Gravy, created in 1919, but he disappeared after Popeye, the ...

Some of the properties headed into the public domain on Jan. 1 include the first Marx Brothers' film, William Faulkner's "The Sound and the Fury" and the first appearances of Popeye the Sailor Man.

Some of the properties headed into the public domain on Jan. 1 include the first Marx Brothers' film, William Faulkner's "The Sound and the Fury" and the first appearances of Popeye the Sailor Man.