The only thing he loves more than spinach and the sea is his flighty, flirty girlfriend, Olive Oyl. On January 17, E. Click HERE to find out more!
On April 10, J. Wellington Wimpy coins his famous catchphrase - "I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today". Fun Fact: His phrase originally started in as, "Cook me up a hamburger. I'll pay you Thursday. Popeye makes his silver screen debut in the July 14, Betty Boop cartoon entitled "Popeye the Sailor", produced by Fleischer Studios and distributed by Paramount Pictures. Popeye was originally voiced by William Costello and later by Jack Mercer.
The Popeye the Sailor radio program airs minute episodes three times a week. Segar and Popeye for their influence on America's spinach eating habits, making Popeye one of the first cartoon characters ever immortalized in public sculpture. Fun Fact: This is the first time Popeye appears in an all-white uniform. Popeye was one of the very first Pop paintings that artist Roy Lichtenstein created in the summer of Segar, a 6 ft.
Segar Memorial Park. It includes statues honoring many other Thimble Theater characters, and features a new installment each year. Later, in , the show was cut into shorter minutes episodes and re-titled The Popeye and Olive Show , which ran on CBS until It has grown from its days as a film set for the Musical Production 'Popeye' into one of the major tourist attractions on the Maltese Islands.
The U. Postal Service features Popeye in its "American Comic Classics" collection of postage stamps issued to celebrate the th anniversary of the American comic strip. The packaging has continued to evolve over the years and new iterations of the original design were produced in , , , and in The image appeared with scroll-over text, "E. In Canada, he serves as a milk spokesperson for Le Lait. Artist Jeff Koons partners with Snapchat to release an augmented reality "World Lense" of his famous Popeye sculpture, available for activation in 9 public parks around the world.
Designer streetwear brand, Iceberg launches a Popeye apparel collection with a promotional campaign featuring American model, Lucky Blue Smith. Popeye collaborates with streetwear designer, A Bathing Ape to launch a capsule collection of apparel and accessories for kids and adults.
Funko, one of the leading creators and innovators of collectible licensed pop culture products, releases the first Popeye Funko Pop! Athletic apparel specialist Taymory, releases a special collection of Popeye themed racing gear, perfect for triathletes in training that includes performance swimwear, biking jerseys and training socks.
On December 11, Warner Bros. On January 17, Popeye kicks off his 90th birthday celebration with the relaunch of "Popeye's Cartoon Club" comic strip series on ComicsKingdom. Following the attack of Pearl Harbor in by the Japanese which made the US take part in World War II, Popeye's design remained unchanged, however, in the cartoons he was now made a member of the U. Navy and given the appropriate naval attire, consisting of the standard white uniform with a black neckerchief, black shoes and a small Navy cap.
He would continue to wear this outfit until the mids. During his Famous Studios run, Popeye's eyes were also slightly enlarged to look a bit more realistic rather than looking like black dots, and he was also portrayed as having two eyes in both Famous Studios and the 60s television series, which would occasionally be seen in several shorts. When Bud Sagendorf began the Popeye comics in , Popeye's design was changed to resemble his classic look but while still wearing his Navy cap from the war.
His eyes were also changed back to their black dot appearance. His chin was also further enlarged with only a few minor changes due to Sagendorf's own unique art style. This design would continue to be used by Sagendorf's successors in Popeye comics, such as George Wildman , Bobby London and several others throughout the 70s, 80s and future newspaper comic strips depending on the artist, with Segar and Sagendorf's designs usually being interchanged.
Since the end of Popeye and Son, media and merchandise outside the occasional comics would continue to portray Popeye with his classic look or his Sagendorf design regularly, and only rarely using his Navy look.
Popeye's appearance is always the most difficult for cartoonists to duplicate because, as Sagendorf once pointed out, there is nothing normal about it. Sagendorf went on to admit that after approximately a year of attempting to do so as Segar's apprentice, he had to ask Segar to draw the character for him; he explained, "It turned out that if you didn't draw the eyebrows and eyes first, the nose second, the head third and the chin last, you were dead. Popeye is a rough and tough sailor with a heart of gold who always does what he can for others and always doing what he thinks is best.
He is brave and compassionate, as he will not back down against any foe and give them all he has got, but his compassionate nature makes it so he always tries to "defends the weakerist", as he cannot stand seeing the weak and helpless get abused.
He also has a fondness for "poor dumb aminals" and, similarly, cannot stand to see any animal being hurt for no reason. But he also has no patience for violent beasts who attack defenseless people or other animals for no justifiable reason, and he will be quick to turn them into mincemeat for their hotheadedness.
Being a sailor, he has a love for adventure and the sea, and will not pass up the chance to find new mysteries, lost treasures and grand adventures. While he is usually a treasure hunter of sorts, he is not greedy and always does his best to share with others and encourage others to do the same. Popeye has a dislike for things like monsters, ghosts and other such terrors, having faced several himself in his life time and would even pretend they do not exist, as seeing them terrifies him greatly, but he always manages to muster the courage to face off against any foe.
Popeye's favorite food is spinach , and he always tries to encourage others to eat this healthy vegetable as it is a great source of "strenkth and vitaliky. Popeye was born the son of Poopdeck Pappy and an unnamed woman in a typhoon in Santa Monica with Popeye erroneously claiming to have been born at 2 or 3 years of age.
Shortly after his birth, his father Poopdeck left home and was never seen again, and his mother's fate was unknown, leaving the young Popeye an "orphink" to be raised by an orphanage keeper who gave him the ID number of , As an infant, Popeye already had his signature pipe , presumably given to him by his father before leaving, and would only take it out of his mouth for his morning bottles of malted hardtack.
As far as he could remember, little Popeye was impressed by early home training and exercised as soon as he was able, but avoided getting into serious fights until he was 4 years of age, where he had finally had enough of his orphanage keeper and let him have it. After this incident, it seemed as though Popeye's keeper became impressed with the child and decided to enter him in contests similar to dog shows where the young Popeye became a prize baby in many shows and always took great pride in his Bertillon measurements.
Eventually, the orphan Popeye would fall on hard times upon leaving the orphanage, and was forced to wear flour sacks for clothes, but happily, the luckless lad was taken in by Whaler Joe at the docks, who even bought the young lad a new pipe and a fascinating straw hat with a radio antenna on it.
At six years of age, Popeye began to fulfill his promise of taking his exercising more seriously and started devoting himself to fights with the local bullies, easily laying his foes among the geranium flowerbeds, always promising to do so and never breaking his word. With Popeye around, the local bullies did not need the aid of any pliers or doorknobs to get rid of those useless bicuspids thanks to Popeye's left-right to the jaw.
As Popeye's notoriety grew among the children, he inadvertently became a factor for good in discouraging his fellow rough-dock kids from crapshooting, doing so by being too good at the game himself, as he always got 18 straight passes when he rolled the dice. Despite his love of crapshooting, Popeye would be forced to sell his beloved dice for the lead in them after his guardian Whaler Joe fell on tough times.
One day, Popeye set out on a boat with nothing but a bent pin and a spool of thread in hopes of helping his guardian by catching whales for him. Unfortunately, upon reaching the whale pod, Popeye realized he was grievously ill-prepared against the giant sea beasts who thrashed about his little vessel as they let out a loud horselaugh, which made Popeye respond with a quick tempered "Blow me down, you-!
It was then that the largest whale, deeply offended, got on little Popeye's vessel and sprayed him with a mighty jet of water. This action infuriated the young Popeye so heavily that his anger became pure strength; he quickly got back on his feet and punched whale with all his might, instantly killing the proud alpha and proceeded to take on the rest of the pod.
A triumphant little Popeye then returned home with a nice string of whales for Whaler Joe that night. Upon reaching the age of 12, Popeye had startled everyone he knew by the sheer fact that he was now like a full-grown man, puberty having hit him hard as he now had to shave after every meal and he even had muscles so tough that they could be used as grindstones, with Popeye even renting out his forearms for just that purpose for some extra side cash. It was around this time that Popeye finally but unknowingly set out to sea, having been shanghaied onto a crew one night after some bilge rat put a mickey in his "sodie pop" to knock him out.
After he woke, he found himself aboard the Josie Lee with a new crew bossing him around, so he decided to slip a "mickey" himself to everyone in the crew with his fists, including the captain. It was then that the Josie Lee began to drift out to sea and after a few days, Popeye realized that he liked this style of living and would go on to devote his life to that of the sailor 's way, deciding to join the crew of the Josie Lee and begin practicing his "sailor's walk" from then on.
Popeye then dedicated himself to sailing the seas, looking for fights and new adventure, as well as any clue to the whereabouts of his long-lost Pappy. As the twelve-year old Popeye set off on his first voyage, he would end up losing the vision of his right eye in "the mos' arful battle" of his life. One fateful night, Popeye had just finished shooting craps with his five mates, who laid beaten on the deck of the Josie Lee with all their money on Popeye's side.
It was then that the monstrous and bloodthirsty cook of the ship, an evil, beast-like man simply known as " The Ape ," stepped forth, having had enough of Popeye's winning streak. Popeye knew a fight was inevitable and shouted out a "Blow me down! However, the naive young boy who always kept his promises no matter what realized that there was not a single flowerbed of "swee'peas" in sight, with the exception of a bed of sunflowers on the ship.
The flustered Popeye kept looking around the boat with his good peepers for any sign of a flowerbed to keep his word on, but before he knew it, "The Ape" pounced on the unsuspecting rookie sailor and a fierce onslaught ensued with The Ape showing no mercy and laying down a gruesome punishment on the sailor, with Popeye never being able to see another flowerbed with that one peeper of his again.
Since then, those at sea would refer to him as "Pop-Eye", after his busted eye. Despite this gruesome defeat, Popeye did not weaken or falter and only became more dangerous from the experience, and he quickly recuperated and continued his service as a sailor on the Josie Lee , continuing to make his regular nightly rounds, winding the anchor watch, always staying in front of the mast so he could say "Blow me down!
In those days, one had to be a brave or foolish mariner to incur in Popeye's wrath. It was around this time that the teenaged Popeye started embracing a chivalrous oath of gallantry, possibly due to the mature nature of his shipmates, with him often refusing to involve himself in the haughty and lewd conversations they had about fair maidens.
His chivalry reached its peak one day when an albatross landed on the deck of the Josie Lee. The hapless little bird was suddenly grasped by none other than the ship's cook, "The Ape", who hoped to make some " Off " out of the poor bird. Popeye then noticed that the small bird was wearing a pair of tiny lady's shoes, making him realize that this albatross was a lady bird, or "Albatress", as he called her.
Popeye then wound up his fist and let "The Ape" have it with a mighty blow to the jaw while also unintentionally getting a revenge of sorts. With the little female albatross now saved, Popeye apologetically bowed before the little bird and said "maybe you is somebody's sister, tha's a fack!
Nobody but a criminal would do a hurt to anybody's sister! Around the age of 14, when ships were wood and men were iron, young Popeye became a member of the Sea Dog Club for sailors, where he would meet his good friend Bill Barnacle.
The two would then join the crew of the Mary Ann for an unknown voyage. On a dark night, the Mary Ann began ringing in an ominous and unusual tone not unlike the sound of bones and skeletons moving when suddenly the moon became blood red. The two shocked sailors could only look on in horror as they saw numerous indescribable beasts clinging to the side of the Mary Ann , led by a sinister being.
The next morning, the duo and their skipper found five of the crew missing with no trace of them left behind. All that was known was that their frightening encounter aboard the "Ol' Mary Ann " would forever remind the duo of the all-true horrors that exist within the seas. Later in life at the presumed age of around 34 according to Bud Sagendorf , Popeye would offer his seafaring services at local ports; it was there he would eventually meet the ever-ambitious Castor Oyl and his sidekick Ham Gravy , who sought Popeye's services in order to travel to the gambling paradise of Dice Island and make it big using the luck-enhancing powers of their mysterious pet, Bernice the Whiffle Hen , and through them he would meet Castor's sister, Olive Oyl who at first was not too fond of the sailor and vice versa.
Even her first words to him were harsh: "Take your hooks offa me or I'll lay ya in a scupper" , and they fought bitterlyand hilariouslyfor months until finally realizing their feelings for each other.
It was at this point that Olive left her womanizing fiancee Ham Gravy to be with the gruff sailor she loved. Since then, Popeye and Olive have remained almost inseparable and happily in love. Since his debut in animation, Popeye has had many unique songs for himself as well as many tunes dedicated to him.
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