35 Facts About Popeye

Popeye the Sailor Man is a fictional cartoon character created by Elzie Crisler Segar.

Segar's Thimble Theatre strip was in its 10th year when Popeye made his debut, but the one-eyed sailor quickly became the main focus of the strip, and Thimble Theatre became one of King Features' most popular properties during the 1930s.

Charles M Schulz said, "I think Popeye was a perfect comic strip, consistent in drawing and humor".

Originally, Popeye got "luck" from rubbing the head of the Whiffle Hen; by 1932, he was instead getting "strength" from eating spinach.

Popeye seems bereft of manners and uneducated, yet he often comes up with solutions to problems that seem insurmountable to the police or the scientific community.

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Popeye has displayed Sherlock Holmes-like investigative prowess, scientific ingenuity, and successful diplomatic arguments.

Popeye eats spinach through his pipe, sometimes sucking in the can along with the contents.

Since the 1970s, Popeye is seldom depicted using his pipe to smoke tobacco.

Popeye's exploits are enhanced by a few recurring plot elements.

Popeye was initially hired by Castor Oyl and Hamgravy to crew a ship for a voyage to Dice Island, the location of a casino owned by the crooked gambler Fadewell.

Weeks later, on the trip back, Popeye was shot many times by Jack Snork, a stooge of Fadewell's, but survived by rubbing Bernice's head.

Ultimately, the Popeye character became so popular that he was given a larger role by the following year, and the strip was taken up by many more newspapers as a result.

In July 1933, Popeye received a foundling baby in the mail whom he adopted and named Swee'Pea.

Popeye appeared in the British TV Comic becoming the cover story in 1960 with stories written and drawn by "Chick" Henderson.

Popeye even had his own Manga series, published by Shonen Gahosha and done by Robotan and Marude Dameo creator Kenji Morita, that ran from 1961 to 1965.

In 1988, Ocean Comics released the Popeye Special written by Ron Fortier with art by Ben Dunn.

The first cartoon in the series was released in 1933, and Popeye cartoons remained a staple of Paramount's release schedule for nearly 25 years.

Thanks to the animated-short series, Popeye became even more of a sensation than he had been in comic strips, and by 1938, polls showed that the sailor was Hollywood's most popular cartoon character.

The early Famous-era shorts were often World War II-themed, featuring Popeye fighting Nazi Germans and Japanese soldiers, most notably the 1942 short You're a Sap, Mr Jap.

In late 1943, the Popeye series began to be produced in Technicolor, beginning with Her Honor the Mare.

The Popeye Show continued to air on Cartoon Network's spin-off network Boomerang.

In 2006, Warner Home Video announced it would release all of the Popeye cartoons produced for theatrical release between 1933 and 1957 on DVD, restored and uncut.

The All New Popeye Hour ran on CBS until September 1981, when it was cut to a half-hour and retitled The Popeye and Olive Comedy Show.

Billy West performed the voice of Popeye, describing the production as "the hardest job I ever did, ever" and the voice of Popeye as "like a buzzsaw on your throat".

For instance, Popeye grows his own spinach and has replaced his pipe with a whistle.

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Popeye was adapted to radio in several series broadcast over three different networks by two sponsors from 1935 to 1938.

Popeye appeared on former Dickinson Theatres gift-certificate advertisement trailers.

Popeye is a former mascot of Dickinson Theatres, a decade before Dickinson Theatres went out of business.

Popeye had a prominent chin, sinewy physique, characteristic pipe, and a propensity and agile skill for fist-fighting.

Popeye even sent out his employees to purchase hamburgers for him between performances at a local tavern named Wiebusch's, the same tavern that Fiegel frequented and where he engaged in fistfights.

Popeye was a popular dance in the dance craze era of the late 1950s and early 1960s.

Frequently circulated story claims that Fleischer's choice of spinach to give Popeye strength was based on faulty calculations of its iron content.

Strip is responsible for popularizing, although not inventing, the word "goon" ; goons in Popeye's world were large humanoids with indistinctly drawn faces that were particularly known for being used as muscle and slave labor by Popeye's nemesis, the Sea Hag.

Popeye Picnic is held every year in Chester, Illinois, on the weekend after Labor Day.

Popeye fans attend from across the globe, including a visit by a film crew from South Korea in 2004.