~ Popeye The Sailor Man~

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The Value of Green Leafy Vegetables

Why are green vegetables so important in our diet?

If I say that greener the color of the vegetable, more beneficial it is for the health of people, I would not be wrong at all. Spinach is a prime example of a green, leafy vegetable that is a treasure house of essential nutrients for human beings. In fact, green vegetables provide a lot of strength and help in improving immune system of human beings. If you want to judge the nutritional abilities of a vegetable, just look at its color and you are not off the mark. Green color is indicative of amount of chlorophyll inside the plant, and thus dark green vegetables have a higher amount of chlorophyll inside. More chlorophyll means higher beta carotene to give muscle power and strength, which is what gave the creator of Popeye the sailor man, a cartoon strip, the idea of a man getting instant power after eating a can of spinach.


Popeye consumes cans of spinach to gain muscle power and strength

Popeye, who is a sailor and loves Olive Oyl, has to face the brute strength of Bluto, another sailor, who is bigger and more powerful than him. Initially, Bluto easily overpowers Popeye but when Popeye gulps down a can of spinach, he develops lot of muscle power and manages to beat the shit out of Bluto. Popeye’s trick remains eating spinach to save his girlfriend from the clutches of Bluto and despite knowing the end of the story, people, especially kids, love the animated series that has been telecast in all parts of the world for the last 75 years. Many of the viewers of the cartoon film think of Sweat Pea, a small baby sometimes seen in the series as being the child of Popeye and his friend Olive. However, he is an orphan whom Popeye found on his door steps.

Coming back to the topic of nutrition given by green vegetables, Spinach has carotenoids that work as antioxidants required by our bodies. These substances are helpful in keeping away various types of cancers and other ailments of joints such as arthritis (a degenerative disease). Carotenoids also keep blood sugar levels under control. Beta carotene (simply vitamin A) is found in abundance in spinach that helps in metabolism of proteins and keeps our vision healthy all the time. Spinach is also full of vitamin C that is not only an antioxidant but also makes our immune system strong to keep us away from infections like common cold and flu.

Spinach and also other green, leafy vegetables contain not just vitamins but also essential minerals like sodium, potassium, and calcium. These keep our skeletal system strong and working in top condition. Potassium helps in maintaining normal blood pressure also. We all know how important calcium is for keeping our bones strong and healthy. Spinach has an abundance of fibers slowing down absorption rate, thus keeping carcinogens away from our bodies. It also prevents our bodies from absorbing excess cholesterols.

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Where is Popeye Today to Inspire People to Increase Spinach Consumption

There are very few cartoon characters being so ungainly and still popular even after 75 years of their launch as Popeye the sailor man. It is hard to imagine how a short, thin, almost ugly bald sailor loving an even uglier looking thin and tall girl like Olive Oyl could be so appealing to so many people around the world. May be it has to do with the rustic charm of Popeye and his courage to take on the might of Bluto, another sailor who is double his size, to save his girlfriend from being harassed. Popeye’s honesty, innocence and love for Olive capture his essence that is so very endearing to readers of this comic strip that is celebrating its diamond jubilee. The creator of the character, E. C. Segar, has shown spinach as his source of muscle strength and power and Popeye just gulps down a can of spinach before taking on Bluto or when he is trying a difficult physical task. Believe it or not, the consumption of spinach went up manifold in the country as this comic strip and later its animated version became popular in US.

In these times when getting foods with high nutritional value has become difficult and we are grappling with problems of pollution and adulteration, spinach comes across as a breath of fresh air with its abundance of vitamins, minerals, and other health benefits for us. It is a green leafy plant that is easily available in all parts of the world and much more powerful than the so called health supplements available in the market. After all, why not make use of abundantly available supplies of the super food called spinach than waster time and money on health supplements that are just making tall claims and giving us not much. Spinach has more nutrients per calorie or serving than many others combined. The earliest scientific research carried out on iron content of spinach actually made a bad mistake of making use of iron bowl to cook spinach and returned results that proclaimed 10 times more iron that was there in spinach. This mistake was realized only 50 years later and termed as bad science practice. Still, the iron content in spinach remained too high to be very beneficial for human beings, giving them muscle power and strength just like Popeye got in the comic strip Popeye the sailor man. Eating spinach, Popeye even saved sweat pea, a small baby in the film many times

However, the health benefits to us from spinach do not end here, and if we talk about the creator of Popeye, we find that he thought of spinach as a super food because of its rich vitamin A content, also called beta carotene. Perhaps, there is no other food item on earth having so many health benefits and these benefits are all the time increasing with the latest being its ability to reduce blood pressure by making nitric acid in mouth when eaten.

There is need for popularizing spinach using Popeye today.

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Popeye Memorabilia: Time to Celebrate an Unsung Hero

Popeye is an unlikely hero for all those who love to watch his antics in the animated film series called Popeye the sailor man. The series that was created by E. C. Segar in 1929 is entering its 75th year and remains as popular as ever. The 75th anniversary of Popeye is being celebrated with great zeal by the admirers of the comic strip and cartoon films and to honor this hero, toys, collectibles, and memorabilia have been launched and being sold in all corners of the world. Popeye is one of the very few characters that are loved despite their ugly personalities. He is bald, short, and certainly not a handsome man by any stretch of imagination. But one habit of his and that is to gulp down a can of spinach to gain strength and muscle power to take on the might of Bluto, another sailor, mostly to save his girlfriend Olive remains etched in the memories of all the lovers of Popeye. Hope you remember sweat pea, a small baby that resembled Popeye, and many believed him to be Popeye’s baby.

Celebrating diamond jubilee of a cartoon character also assumes significance in the wake of great help in popularizing the habit of eating spinach. Yes, it is a fact that the sale and consumption of spinach in the country went up many time more with the comic showing the hero getting immediate muscle power and strength upon eating spinach. Spinach happens to be one gift from Mother Nature that has been there, fulfilling the nutritional requirements of the mankind in a perfect manner for the last so many centuries. The green, leafy plant serves as a food source that is full of iron, vitamin A, and many other minerals and vitamins that are required by us on a daily basis. Interestingly, Segar, the creator of Popeye the sailor man, presented spinach as a super food because of the abundance of vitamin A, and not iron as is believed by many. It was only later through research by scientists that people came to know of myriad benefits of spinach. In fact, after a century of research, we are still seeing new benefits unfolding with consumption of spinach.

For example, a cup of spinach has enough fibers in it to help aid in digestion and prevent constipation. It keeps blood sugar levels down and prevents people from overeating by making them feel full for a long time. It is not just prostate cancer that is inhibited by consumption of spinach; it has been shown to slow down cell division inside stomach, including skin cancer cells. Spinach contains two anti inflammatory ingredients in very high amounts that prevent inflammation in body joints. It is already known that spinach is good at keeping blood sugar levels low and thus a good vegetable to include in the diet of diabetics.

However, the benefits of spinach for us do not end here and only recently it has been found that spinach is good at lowering blood pressure also.

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Popeye collectibles

Popeye collectibles refer to the collection of relevant Popeye toys, Episode CDs and DVDs, merchandise clothes of this popular cartoon. Collectibles also represents articles and contents on the web about interesting and famous characters of the cartoon. These articles can include a large range of books and magazines containing the fiction story of the sailorman. Moreover, there are vintage toys and memorabilia regarding the animated story. These toys are designed as the mimic of interesting cartoon characters from this series such as Olive, Bluto and sweet pea.

Those with an addiction for cartoons have shown a great deal of interest to get information regarding the collectibles of Popeye the sailorman. The main reason behind this curiosity is the intense craze of that cartoon character among the audience. In 1919, Elzie Crisler Segar evolved an ultimate creation in the form of Thimble Theatre comic strip. This comic story was published daily as a part of fiction. The enhanced popularity of this mind blowing imagination motivated the writers and artist personnel’s of the king’s features to introduce interesting cartoon characters in the animated series, one by one, within the duration of few years. The comic strip appeared frequently in the newspaper as well as television media in the form of live action movie and animated cartoon film.

Actually, the introduction of the current leading cartoon character of this series occurred after the ten years of the establishment of the comic series. Popeye the sailorman was appeared in the cartoon story on January, 1929. He later became the main character of this comic fiction. The comic series had also been revised for the name on that time and begun to be known as Popeye. The name probably represents the dilated appearance of an eye i.e. pop eye of the lead character. Its interesting activities won the heart of the audience, thus the creators focus to represent the whole fiction on the basis of this passionate sailorman. His love for spinach surprises children for the reason of gaining instant energy. It’s really an innovative way to attract children towards green vegetable such as spinach.

Various international companies are active to launch the series of attractive popeye toys in various poses. In order to impart a real touch to the toys, some mimics are designed with Popeye the sailorman having the spinach can in his hands.. These toys are made up of wood, caste iron and reinforced plastic etc. There are also some mind blowing paintings and posters to show the exact scenario of Popeye the sailorman.

One of the leading art companies offers Popeye toy with the wooden pipe as it always seen with, in the animated visual show. Similarly, another company provides popeye card games to redeem the popularity of this amazing cartoon. Story books and portraits of the sailorman catch the heart of its fans to purchase the interesting collectibles. Movie posters and exact dummies of olive, bluto and sweet pea are also available in the market.

All the cartoon characters of the series such as Bluto, sweet pea and Olive etc. are highly lovable among kids since 1930s. Later, the personal studio of paramount pictures continued production of this fictional cartoon movie. The adaption of popeye the sailorman story by Fleischer Studios was taken in 1933 for paramount pictures. Now, Turner Entertainment is the owner of this cartoon strip.

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Popeye Costume

The history and fame of cartoon as well as comic character Popeye gives people an obvious choice to select Popeye costume in Halloween and theme parties. Most of the people are grown up by seeing the energetic and humorous cartoon of Popeye in childhood. That’s why this costume is equally popular for children, teenagers as well as adults. Popeye series consist of typical characters and amusing costume of them.

The central character of Popeye series is Popeye who is a middle aged sailor man. Popeye costume consists of paints, shirts, arms, hats and belts. Each item carries its own significance and characterizes the funny character of Popeye. Here is some instruction to create Popeye costume-

• One can start to design his Popeye costume from the white sailor cap of Popeye. It is not resemble like traditional round sailor cap because author characterize Popeye with Front- brimmed Captain’s cap. One can also find this type of cap in novelty store or made by its own.

• Next section of the costume is shirt. Popeye is usually seen in traditional black sailor shirt with red collar. The shirt is highlighted by golden buttons and a square collar. In winter season once can choose navy coat or sailor-style pea coat as Popeye upper dress.

• Pants of the Popeye are also unique like the typical comic character. One can get traditional royal blue pant with shiny yellow sailor belt for a good Popeye look. Bell-Bottom pants along with stuff newspaper in bottom also emphasize the character. For more accuracy, one can use button in front of the pants instead of zipper.

• For getting full Popeye look, one can hire or buy corncob pipe from novelty store, traditional pipe store or may search online.

• If anyone wants the bulging forearms like Popeye, it can be dressed up with long-sleeve, tight and flesh-color shirts and stuffed with fiberfill for bulk appearance but one should not forget to create temporary fake anchor tattoo in its forearms.

• Another accessory of Popeye costume is brown distinct work boots with rounded big toe. The Hook boots of adult is suitable match for this costume.

• Spinach can give finishing touch in this costume. One can be creative to make a spinach can. It is recommended to make a spinach can with such a craft material which once can easily squeeze and full of green cutting paper.
Olive Oyl is main female character and girlfriend of Popeye. Females can choose Olive Oyl costume in Popeye theme parties. Here is some instruction about Olive Oyl costume.

• Olive Oyl generally wore red long sleeved shirt with white round collar and cuffs. One can use 0.5 inch wide white ribbon and fabric glue to create white collar and cuffs of each hand in full sleeve red shirt.

• One should use 1 inch glossy yellow ribbon about 2 inches from bottom portion of black skirt to decorate Olive’s skirt.

• Use roll down white tube socks and ankle-high brown boots for perfect Olive looks.

• One can spread its long black hair to create a neat bun like Olive.

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Popeye games

Who doesn’t know Popeye the sailor? Popeye is a much loved cartoon animated character which has been entertaining audiences across the globe for decades. While children love the Popeye animated cartoon series and Popeye comic strips, new age technology has made it possible to develop Popeye games which can be played on gaming consoles.

Nintendo the game developing company released the Popeye arcade game. The game can be played by two individuals alternately or individually and the top 5 scores are recorded. In the Popeye game you need to collect certain items while avoiding certain dangers. The items to collect depend on the level in which you are playing. Popeye may need to collect 24 hearts, 16 musical notes or even the letters of the word help. He needs to do all this while avoiding Brutus, sea hag and a horde of other dangers. With the help of a joystick you can make Popeye walk ahead, walk back; make him go up and down a ladder and a host of other antics. There is also an attack button with the help of which you can save Popeye from being hit by dangerous items like bottles, skulls, vultures etc. at each level you can give Popeye a boost of energy and power from spinach bottles, after which he becomes literally invincible. Some other Popeye characters in the game includes Olive Oyl, Swee’ Pea and Wimpy.

Other Popeye games include the handheld game called Popeye in 1981, Donkey Kong, Popeye no Eigo Asobi etc. Popeye no Beach Volleyball was developed for Game Gear, Popeye: volume of the malicious witch sea hag was developed for the Japanese Super Famicom. Popeye Saves the Earth was a Super Pin Pinball game released by Midway in 1994. Popeye: rush for spinach was developed by Namco for Game Boy advance.

Apart from the above mentioned Popeye games there are a lot of other simple Popeye games whose target customers are children below 10years. This includes Popeye dress up games, Popeye puzzles, Popeye tiles games etc. These games can be played online simply by logging on to the site.

Popeye is a much loved cartoon character and the games developed after this character has been a huge success. A number of gaming companies have come up with different Popeye games from time to time and each was different from the others. These Popeye games are easy to play and are a great time pass. They are available in gaming consoles, handheld gaming devices and now-a-days they are also available in the mobile phones. The rules of the games keep changing and so does the objective and weapons. However the entertainment factor of the Popeye games remains constant. Popeye games can be a great gift for children. There are various online stores from which you can purchase these games and some of them offer discountstoo. Apart from games there are a host of merchandises on sale which have been marketed after the Popeye brand name and most are successful like the Popeye games.

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Popeye merchandise

Popeye, the sailorman is a popular cartoon hero, which is notably famous among children for its funny appearance and amazing actions. It was basically a character with little role in the comic strip, Thumble Theatre earlier. Later, the increased craze of this animated cartoon character suggested the designers to modify the fictional story; revolving around Popeye. This step of the creators really proved successful and the comic earned viewers’ attention; in a quite fascinating way.

Soon, the action movie of this cartoon represented the need of merchandising. Popeye the sailorman became to be known as one of the leading character to rule over the heart of the audience. This animated character was featured frequently in the popular comic strips and magazines thoroughly. Later, it was subjected for mass merchandising. This ultimately fascinating cartoon is created by Bud Sagendorf for King’s features. Then, the publication of this cartoon series in king’s comic was ceased. Bud became busy with other projects. The rights to publish Popeye further had been transferred to Charlton comics. Here, George Altman, an American cartoon artist was offered the opportunity to design this cartoon for the script of Joe Gill. He did the job from 1969 to 1977. Later, Bill Pearson continued with the script of this world famous imaginary cartoon sailorman.

The comic strip had been renamed as Popeye. This interesting cartoon hero is represented as a sincere sailorman in the action film. The reason of popeye’s power is spinach. Olive is his girl friend. She loves the sailorman but, sometimes get enough angry on him for very small matters. Bluto is a powerful enemy of popeye, the sailorman; with huge muscular body. He has a romantic interest in Olive. This is the main reason of fight between him and Bluto (also called as Brutus). Thus, both of these sailormen always make plans of defending each other anyhow. Sweet pea is also a significant character of the same cartoon series. He is a crawling kid who is too small to talk properly. The sailorman and his girlfriend loves sweet pea very dearly according to the story.

Thus, the entire fiction is based on the factual tale of love, romance, jealousy and funny revengeful planning. Bluto often tends to kidnap her dream girl i.e. Olive. He plans with great zeal to meet his purpose, but every time gets defeated by the sailorman. As the two sailorman competes for a girl in the series; strength matter a lot here. Brutus remains weaker than the popeye even after possessing more muscular appearance. He regularly eats spinach to become energetic. The cartoon has always been shown to carry its spinach can with it everywhere.

Extraordinary representation of all these ordinary actions in the cartoon strips turned on the public attention to purchase popeye collectibles in high amount. Many merchandisers are actively selling popular items with the logo of popeye. Such as toys, vintage, books, magazines, T- shirts with the photo of popeye are available easily in the markets. One can also find these stuffs online. The characters of Sweet pea, Brutus and Olive are also being redeemed in popeye merchandising. The public craze for this animated cartoon strip led the merchandising business to the heights.

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Popeye pinball game

Since 1929 Popeye has been entertaining his audience and giving loads of entertainment by regularly featuring in comic books, television and even the silver screen. Now-a-days Popeye games are also available so that Popeye fans could stay connected with him whenever they so desire. These games are easily available and are a great way to relax at home on a Sunday afternoon. Not only kids, adults too love playing Popeye games and Popeye games are now available in handheld gaming devices, gaming consoles and pinball games. Apparatus for mobile has now been launched which supports Popeye arcade game.

For those in the unknown about pinball games, a pinball game is sort of a video arcade game that is coin operated. The player tries to rake in points by influencing steel balls over a playfield which is inside a glass covered scenario known as the pinball device. The main aim of the player is to gather s many points as possible. Coin operated pinball games are now passé and technology bought about revolution in the business of pinball games. Earlier pinball games were two-dimensional but with time the capabilities of processors and graphics card have improved in leaps and bounds which gas made it possible for 3D pinball games to be developed.

Popeye saves the earth is a wide body pinball game that was released in 1994 by Midway. While playing this game you should know the layout of the field well as the playfield is extremely cluttered and this makes hitting the targets quite difficult as most of the objects are hidden from normal view. Popeye saves the earth pinball game is played at two levels. You can use the escalator or the animal sink hole to move from the lower play field to the upper play field. Make sure that you know the game play well before embarking on this Popeye pinball game.

There were many Popeye games that were a huge hit after their release. Some of the Popeye games include the 1981 released Game and Watch called Popeye, the 1982 Popeye arcade game, the 1983 released Popeye no Eigo Asobi, the 1982 released Popeye no beach volleyball for game gear, 2003 released Popeye strength tester, the 2005 released game boy advance video game called Popeye rush for spinach and many more.

Popeye pinball games and other games as well are very successful world wide. Now-a-days it is also possible to download these games from various internet sites and you can play them in your computer if you have a good graphics card. Popeye games can seem silly to advanced gamers but for most people who do not fall in the category of advanced gamers thoroughly love Popeye games. This is proved by the fact that all the earlier released Popeye games were very successful and is still played by people all over. Popeye games are a great gift for children who adore Popeye. The price of these games is reasonable enough and it certainly does not burn a hole in your pocket.

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Popeye video game

Popeye the sailorman video game came in 1982. It was developed and published by Nintendo. The credit to design this platform game goes to Genyo Takeda and Shigeru Miyamoto, while there are some rumors that Ikegami Tsushinki also co-operated his efforts in designing the game. Two of the players can enjoy the video game in the form of alternate operation or one person can also enjoy the game alone. Popeye, the cartoon character, is available in to two configurations, standard and cocktail.

The license of this arcade game was possessed by Atari to release it in UK and Ireland, exclusively. The cabinet to display the game was manufactured and designed by Atari only. The top five scores are kept as the record on the scoreboard of this game. The world record regarding this video game is secured on the name of Ben Falls who scored 3,023,060 points on Dec, 2011; as it has been stated by the Twin Galaxies International Scoreboard.

The basic concept of this game is expressed in a fantastic manner to make it quite entertainting for children. The entire session of the game is based on the exact story of popeye as shown in the live action movie of Popeye the sailorman. The player has to gain some special items, on various levels of the game; through the animated character of the sailorman. These items include a no. of hearts, musical notes and help letters. During the collection of these items, the game character needs to face certain interrupters such as Bluto or Brutus, sea storms and other kinds of dangerous situations.

The player can use an 8-way joystick to move Popeye upward, downward, backward and forth direction. An attack button is there to beat the danger but, the character cannot be commanded to jump in order to avoid the enemy. While, there is a system for Bluto, the enemy of the sailorman; to jump up and down for knocking him out. He cannot be directly attacked by Popeye the sailorman while he can just avoid him by destructing the harmful items like bottles, skulls and beast birds.
The concept is designed to be funnier by the incorporation of a spinach can in every level of the game. Spinach is one of the favorite items of the sailorman and consuming it enhances his power, surprisingly. Attacking on the spinach provides energy to Popeye. Thus, it can beat Bluto by running through him for the time. This attacking action lasts only for few seconds and Brutus can come again to create a challenging situation before him. There are some barrels which can be used by the sailorman to knock down Brutus.

Olive, sweet pea and wimpy are also the licensed cartoon characters; in this video game. They appear considerably decorative, thus do not incorporate more in the game play. Sweet pea appears in the higher level when the sailorman touch sees saw and earns bonus points. Further, Popeye the sailorman undergoes a dream walking where Olive also appears to be rescued by him. Olive is his girl friend while sweet pea is his foundling baby, according to the original comic strip.

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Who is Popeye: How silly can you get?

You can be pardoned for asking this question if you live in an area with no cable TV as Popeye the sailor man is perhaps one of the most popular cartoon movie series that has been telecast on TV and an all time favorite of kids for generations. So you cannot escape by saying you are an adult as you must have read comic strip of the series as a kid yourself as the series has become 75 year old this year as it was first introduced to the world way back in 1929. There is a reason of asking this question though. This is the diamond jubilee year of the comic strip and Popeye memorabilia is being sold in different parts of the world to remind people about not just Popeye and his antics but also the fact that the secret behind his super strength is nothing else than spinach, labeled as a super food by nutritionists the world over. At that time when the comic was introduced, the creator thought spinach to be full of vitamin A and he made his hero gulp down a can of spinach to get muscular strength needed to beat Bluto, double his size. Bluto is another sailor like Popeye and has eyes on Olive Oyl, the girlfriend of Popeye who seems to be gullible. In the series there is also a cute looking baby who makes appearance only a few times. He is sweat pea whom many mistakenly assume as the baby of Popeye and Olive.

The need to popularize Popeye, and thus spinach is as relevant today as it has ever been. This is because of the shortage of quality food in these times of heavy pollution and adulteration. Spinach happens to be a food source full of all essential nutrients needed by our bodies on a daily basis. If you take interest in scientific bloopers, you must have read about SPIDES, which is an acronym that stands for Spinach Popeye Iron Decimal Error Story, and is a result of bad science practices. The scientist Von Bunge, while publishing the results of iron content in spinach, bungled and made a decimal error that let people believe iron content in spinach was ten times more than it actually was. However, this was a myth that helped in making spinach popular in the country and its sale and consumption increased manifold because of this myth.

Apart from being rich in iron, spinach is also rich in vitamin A known as beta carotene. It has been used in various cultures and civilizations for centuries and man kind has known its goodness in different forms since ages. While spinach is consumed fresh in Asian countries, it is sold frozen or in canned form in western countries mostly.

These days when half of the population is complaining of obesity and many other ailments, spinach with its goodness seems to be an ideal answer to myriad problems facing mankind. This is why we are celebrating our spinach hero, Popeye in 2012.

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Popularity of Popeye in Medias

In the January 17th, 1929, the fictional cartoon character Popeye had made his debut to the pages of the comic strip Thimble Theatre. After that, he doesn’t need to look back as the story of his fame just keeps moving forward. With the increase in the glory, Popeye has become the subject of famous cartoon stories, and thus the shows of him are starting to be published outside the print media as well. This is the indication of his popularity and acceptance among the people belonging to different age group. The shows on Popeye are famous on television cartoon shows, on comic books, in the silver screen cartoon movies and so on. Popeye has become famous in all those entertainment Medias and has become one of the major characters of cartoon world. Now, we all know about the popularity of the shows of Popeye in Medias like newspaper comic sections, comic books, small screen television cartoon shows and so on. However, this is not all about the popularity of Popeye in the entertainment world as the character has become popular in various other mass medium of entertainment as well. This includes big screen, radio, video games, and pinball games and so on. All these are the signs of huge recognition of Popeye and his shows.

The first major broadcast of Popeye shows except those in the digital media had occurred in the radio in the year 1935. A 15 minute show in every three weeks had been aired in the radio. Detmar Poppen had starred as the Popeye and the show was named as “Popeye the Sailor”. In these periods of three years, total 204 numbers of shows of Popeye over the radio had been aired, and till date, only 20 episodes of them are still in existence. The silver screen is also thrilled with the presence of Popeye for several times. There are many cartoon movies that are featured on Popeye, but that is not all about his presence in the big movie screen. A live action feature film had created on Popeye which has been directed by Robert Altman. The role of Popeye had been acted by Robin Williams, and the character of Olive Oyl, the girlfriend of Popeye was acted by Shelley Duvall. This is a joint venture of Walt Disney and Paramount pictures production and the movie had earned twice the money used as the budget of the movie.

There is another real action movie on Popeye is coming under the production house Sony Pictures Animation. In the year 1981, the first video game on Popeye was out in the market. The game named Popeye and was created by Nintendo. Since then, there are various games out in the market about Popeye and many of them have become a real success in the gaming world. Popeye is being an issue of interest for children and their parents for years, and thus creations on him are a real subject of marketing him. Toys, restaurants and various other things are on Popeye also proves its fame.

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Popeye the movie

It is one of the finest memories of some people’s childhood watching the Popeye the sailorman cartoon. It was a real hit cartoon of its time; the series of the sailorman was created in the year 1929, by Elzie Segar. It is a really amazing thing to think that how Mr. Segar got the idea of making Popeye a squinted eye man who loves to eat spinach. He is really muscular, just think about it, the sailor with a squinted eye who gets superhuman strength when he eats some spinach; isn’t it amazing? He do this action by pressing the box of spinach by his powerful hands, and after eating it, he gets so powerful that he can do anything, nothing is impossible for Popeye after that can of spinach. When we talk about Popeye, we have to talk about his girlfriend called olive oyl, a really long girl with skinny body, but still Popeye loved him. He saved her every time when she gets in some trouble with all his might, and when there is a hero, along comes the villain, and the villain in this cartoon series was a really fat guy named bluto who was also a sailor.

Bluto always tries to take olive away from Popeye because he also likes the girl, and every time bluto tries to kidnap olive as he loves her he gets beaten to a pulp by Popeye. When Bluto gains the upper hand on Popeye in a fight along comes the can of spinach to save the day, the way Popeye used to eat his spinach is one of the most amazing moments in the cartoon, he uses his muscled arms and sometimes even his pipe to eat his spinach, that pipe became a symbol for Popeye’s character.
If you are an admirer of this cartoon then you have sure remembered all the characters used in this series, and one of those characters is sweet pea who is Popeye’s adopted baby, sweet pea is also a famous character of the Popeye series because of its ordeals, sweet pea gets them in trouble all the time and Popeye always comes to save them no matter in what kind of problem they are? It is really funny to notice how Popeye the sailorman paves way to rescue its pals from troubles all the time and one of the amazing moments of this cartoon was when Popeye pumps his muscle’s and you can see the anchor tattoo on his arm. He adores sweet pea as his adopted son.

Popeye the sailorman cartoon series got so much popularity that even a movie was made, the movie was named as Popeye the movie, movie got created in the year 1980 and directed by Robert Altman, the character of the famous Popeye was played by Robin Williams, Shelley Duvall played the role of olive in this movie. The role of Brutus was played by Paul L. Smith, the movie got great success, another movie based on Popeye is being made and is said to release in upcoming years.

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Other Notable Comic Strips
Hey Popeye Lovers Remember These?

Comic strips have been part of newspapers and periodicals since the late 19th century with the debut of The Yellow Kid in 1895, which eventually paved way to Blondie, Popeye, Dennis the Menace, Pogo and the Peanuts gang – the lovable comic strip characters we know today.

Sunday newspapers traditionally include special comic strips like Thimble Theater’s Popeye and Little Orphan Annie in the 1930s. Comic strips usually filled an entire newspaper page in a format known to collectors as a full page. It was gradually resized to reflect the change of time or eras. From the 1930s large scale newspaper advertisements, the paper rationing during World War II, the decline of newspaper circulation because of the dawn of television news and the 1950s-1960s inflation, comic strips has been seen being resized and changed in format until what we know them now. Bill Watterson, the Calvin and Hobbes comic strip creator, has oven voiced his opinion about the changes in size and the subsequent inability of cartoonist to create good comic panels. He won the battle against his syndicator and was granted to have half-sized Sunday comic strips and given freedom to arrange the panels the way he wanted.

There are many notable comic strips apart from Popeye through the ages and some of them are still running on daily and Sunday periodicals. Some of them are Gasoline Alley, Citizen Dog, The Amazing Spiderman, Tarzan, Marmaduke, Frank & Ernest, Prince Valiant, Dick Tracy, The Phantom, Mary Worth, Superman, The Boondocks, Batman, Garfield, Snoopy, Bloom County, Pooch Café, Krazy Kat, Dilbert and Doonesbury.

Alongside the beloved Peanuts comic strip by Charles M. Schultz and Dennis the Menace by Hank Ketcham, Elzie Crisler “E. C.” Segar’s Thimble Theater featuring the bulging muscled-forearm sailorman named Popeye made its way into pop culture.

E. C. Segar began drawing Thimble Theater for the New York Journal, a King Features Syndicate newspaper. The comic strip featured characters like Olive Oyl, Castor Oyl (Olive’s brother) and Horace Hamgravy. Thimble Theater made its debut on December 19, 1919 and later on expanded and syndicated by other papers and would eventually be known as simply Popeye.

It took about a decade before the character of Popeye was introduced to the Thimble Theater comic strip. Popeye’s first appearance was on January 17, 1929 in strip when Castor Oyl needed a mariner to navigate his ship to Dice Island and he encountered Popeye. When asked if he’s a sailor, Popeye cheekily answered, “D’ja think I’m a cowboy?” Popeye the sailor eventually stole the spotlight and became a regular character ever since.

Popeye the sailor became so popular that he was subsequently given a larger role in the comic strip; expanding into a side story of having a foundling baby Popeye endearingly called Swee’Pea. Apart from Popeye, notable lovable characters introduced in Thimble Theater includes the local cobbler George W. Geezil, Toar the caveman, Swee’Pea’s unlikely babysitter Alice the Goon, the magical dog-like creature Eugene the Jeep, the pirate Sea Hag, and the hamburger-loving moocher named J. Wellington Wimpy.

E. C. Segar’s Popeye was very different from the later incarnations of the comic strip after his death. The Popeye storyline was more complex and Bluto’s appearances were not as much as the later versions. There were also some characters that weren’t included in the Popeye cartoons. After his death, Popeye was picked up and continued by several artists and writers, most notable of them would be Segar’s assistant Bud Sagendorf.

Sagendorf drew and wrote Popeye’s daily comic strips until 1986 and the Sunday Popeye strips until 1994 before he died. He retained most of Segar’s initial vision and style for Popeye. He also included some of Segar’s not well-known characters into the Popeye strips. His pacing was less fast than Segar’s though. It would sometimes the Popeye story would last a week before it concluded, which attributed to Popeye’s longevity.

Bobby London took on the Popeye’s daily comic strips where Sagendorf left off – 1986 to 1992 – and Hy Eisman continued the Sunday edition comic strips in 1994. London often touched on controversial issues such as abortion and try to parody it to leave a message to the public. In London’s classic Popeye storyline titled “The Return of Bluto,” Popeye’s arch-enemy is seen battling against versions of him in comic books, television animation and animated feature film. London was eventually fired and reruns of Sagendorf’s Popeye were featured in the daily strip.

As of January 1, 2009, after seventy years of the death of Thimble Theater’s creator, E.C. Segar, Popeye became a public domain in most countries. Although the United States still have copyright claims to the Popeye character, its various film franchise, comic books, television shows (including Hanna-Barbera’s All-New Popeye Hour, The Popeye and Olive show, and Cartoon Network’s The Popeye Show), Popeye television commercials, theme music (I’m Popeye The Sailorman) and many more.

Popeye’s popularity branched out into other mediums. There’s the Quaker Oats commercials featuring Popeye, the Dr. Pepper’s 1979 “I’m Popeye the Pepper-man” campaign, Popeye radio shows, retail food like Popeye’s canned spinach, Popeye Candy Sticks, fast-food restaurant chain (Popeye’s Chicken & Biscuits), Popeye feature films, Popeye video and pinball games (created by Nintendo as a widescreen Game & Watch game), Popeye sports mascot, Popeye toys and other merchandise. Popeye’s character surely capitalized on almost all marketing mediums available.

Throughout the years, Popeye’s influence has reached the social and political areas. Popeye was featured in some awareness campaigns such as the 1990 advertisement about the harmful effects of coastal pollution. The commemorative U.S. postal stamps released in 1995 included the Popeye comic strip in the Comic Strip Classics series among other notable comic strips like The Yellow Kid, Gasoline Alley, Nancy, Little Nemo Slumberland, Krazy Kat, Alley Oop, Blondie, Bringing Up Father, The Katzenjammer Kids, Barney Google, Little Orphan Annie, Brenda Starr, Prince Valiant, Flash Gordon, Dick Tracy, Terry and the Pirates, Rube Goldberg’s Inventions, Li’l Abner and Toonerville Folks.

Thimble Theater became popular because of Popeye the sailor. And eventually, in the 1970s, the name was changed into Popeye and remains to be one of the longest running syndicated comic strips of all time.