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 ...

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.

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 ...

Popeye is a hot-tempered, bulge-muscled, lantern-jawed sailorman created by the late Cartoonist Elzie Crisler Segar. Last week Popeye in the flesh (of Actor Harry Foster Welch) stalked into the ...

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.

Back in 1919, illustrator E.C. Seegar was asked to create a cartoon for the New York Journal. He titled it: Thimble Theatre. The lead characters were Olive Oyl, her brother Castor Oyl and Olive's ...