#Thimble theater

[fashioninpaper]

“Popeye Thimble Theatre" with Bisque Dolls,in Original Box. The characters are Jack Snork, Ham Gravy, The Bandit, Mr. Kelp, Castor Oyl, Tim Eard, Olive Oyl and Popeye.

[browsethestacks]

Popeye

Art by...

1) Zombie Goon

2) E.C. Segar And "Son"

3) E.C. Segar

4) Kelley Jones

5) Otto Schmidt

6) Roger Langridge

7) Marcus Williams

8) Tom Fowler

9) Chris Wahl

10) Steve Mannion

[prismcreative]

Primordial Sailor

Happy 95th anniversary, Popeye!

[bobauthorman]

[rubbrcat]

[owlsounds]

Popeye is a magical girl.

[naidje]

popeye dysphoric moment

[arkholt]

Thimble Theater, December 24, 1921

I don't know a lot about how radiators work, but I'm confused as to why you would have a chimney if you didn't have a fireplace. If there's no fire to create smoke, then there's no need for a chimney for the smoke to go out of. Perhaps I'm wrong about this and a radiator expert will set me straight, but this seems like an odd premise. Still, it shows why Olive Oyl eventually left Harold Hamgravy and stayed with Popeye. Popeye would never do anything this silly. Or perhaps he would, but he would be strong enough to punch his way out of the radiator.

[that-theaven]

I was inspired to make this after seeing Lilly-Rose Depp in Nosferatu, but Olive Oyl ended up looking like Mia Goth in Pearl instead

[pulpsandcomics2]

Thimble Theater

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[ifelllikeastar]

On January 17, 1929, Popeye the Sailor Man, makes his first appearance in the comic strip 'Thimble Theater'. Popeye was created by Elzie Crisler Segar. The Thimble Theatre strip was in its 10th year when Popeye made his debut, but the one-eyed (left) sailor quickly became the main focus of the strip, and Thimble Theatre became one of King Features' most popular properties during the 1930s.

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[bobauthorman]

Even the octopus looks shocked!

[owlsounds]

something something Popeye commemorative Tiananmen Square tin toy.

[sohannabarberaesque]

Popeye in relation to Hanna-Barbera, more or less

As many of you probably know by now, copyright in the original version of Popeye the Sailor, as introduced by cartoonist Elsie Segar in his "Thimble Theater" strip in January 1929, goes into public domain with the arrival of 2025 in the United States.

Now mind you, this was the version before Popeye started gaining his superhuman powers via spinach (although in an early radio treatment of the character, Wheatena, a hot wheat porridge, was Popeye's source of strength) ... before Olive Oyl and Popeye were romantically linked (know, when Popeye debuted, Olive Oyl was dating Ham Gravy) ... and before the likes of Bluto, J. Wellington Wimpy, Swee' Pea, Eugene the Jeep and Popeye's nephews of Peep Eye, Pip Eye, Poop Eye and Pup Eye were even part of Popeye's supporting cast; those particular elements, for the time being, remain under King Features' copyright (King Features being part of the Hearst Corporation).

Those such being deployed in Hanna-Barbera's treatment of the franchise, The All-New Popeye Hour, as aired on CBS in their 1977-78 Saturday-morning programme and would continue off and on for a few more seasons, culminating with The Popeye and Olive Oyl Show in the 1981-82 season, also on CBS but reduced to a half hour. (The former including the Dinky Dog shorts as a segment, such sold overseas in its own right.) However, in line with prevailing standards, and quite in contrast to earlier syndicated film and TV treatments, both repackaged and first-run product airing as part of hosted children's shows locally from about the mid-1950's on, the violence was considerably toned down lest children watching Pick Up Bad Ideas and an occasional "goody-goody" public-service message being thrown into the context.

Now you know.