Popeye first appeared in the comics in January 1929, as a supporting player in Elzie Segar's Thimble Theater, a high-spirited strip that was already home to Olive Oyl, her brother Castor Oyl, and ...

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 ...

TODAY is the anniversary of his debut with the Thimble Theatre. Q: Thimble Theatre? A: A comic strip created in 1919 by Elzie Crisler Segar for King Features Syndicate. It dealt with the adventures of ...