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Popeye the Sailor Man

Popeye The Sailor Man - Popularised by Max Fleischer

History - The Animated Characters

Popeye the Sailor Man

Popeye the Sailor Man No.2

Popeye The Sailor Man is a famous comic strip character, later featured in popular animated cartoons.

He was created by Elzie Crisler Segar and first appeared in the King Features comic strip Thimble Theatre on January 17, 1929.

Popeye quickly became the main focus of the strip, which was one of King Features' most popular strips during the 1930s. Thimble Theatre, carried on after Segar's 1938 death by artists such as Bud Sagendorf, was renamed "Popeye" in the 1970s.

Today drawn by Hy Eisman, Popeye continues to appear in first-run strips in Sunday papers (daily Popeye strips are reruns of older strips).

Betty Boop & Popeye - Film Archive

Popeye the Sailor with Betty Boop - Film Archive
Betty Boop with Pudgy and Popeye - Color Film Archive

In 1933, Max and Dave Fleischer's Fleischer Studios adapted the Thimble Theatre characters into a series of Popeye the Sailor theatrical cartoon shorts for Paramount Pictures.

These cartoons proved to be among the most popular of the 1930s, and Popeye at one time rivaled Mickey Mouse for popularity among audiences. After Paramount assumed control of the Fleischer Studio in 1942, they continued producing the series until 1957.

Classic Popeye Pics

Cartoon drawing of Popeye the Sailor Man and Olive Oyl	Popeye the Sailor Man

Future Popeye cartoons were produced for television from 1960 to 1962 by King Features, and from 1978 to 1982, as well as 1987 to 1988 by Hanna-Barbera Productions.

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