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	Popeye - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Thimble Theatre, carried on after Segar's 1938 death by artists such as Bud Sagendorf, was renamed Popeye in the 1970s.
		Thimble Theatre was adapted into an animated cartoon series originally produced for Paramount Pictures by Fleischer Studios, run by brothers Max Fleischer (producer) and Dave Fleischer (director) in 1933.
		Thimble Theatre, Hyperion Press, 1977, ISBN 0-88355-663-4, reprints daily from September 10, 1928 missing 11 dailies which are included in the Fantagraphics reprints.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thimble_Theatre (4208 words)

	Olive Oyl - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Olive Oyl is a cartoon character created by Elzie Crisler Segar for his comic strip Thimble Theater.
		Thimble Theater later became Popeye after the sailor character who became the most popular member of the comic strip's cast.
		Olive Oyl was a character in the strip for years before the first appearance of Popeye.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Olive_Oyl (285 words)

	Castor Oyl
		Castor Oyl is a cartoon character[?] created by cartoonist Elzie Segar[?] for his comic strip Thimble Theater, which was later renamed "Popeye".
		He was the main protaganist of Thimble Theater for years before the first appearance of the Popeye character.
		Castor Oyl continued to be an important character in Segar's Popey strip, but played little (most usually no) role in the movie animated cartoon Popeyes produced first by Fleischer Studios and then by Paramount Pictures.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ca/Castor_Oyl.html (75 words)

	Olive Oyl
		Olive Oyl is a cartoon character[?] created by Elzie Segar[?] for his comic strip Thimble Theater.
		Olive Oyle was a character in the strip for years before the first appearance of Popeye.
		The voice for Olive Oyl was created by character actress Mae Questel[?] (who also voiced Betty Boop and other characters); Questel styled Olive Oyl's voice after that of actress Zazu Pitts.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ol/Olive_Oyl.html (174 words)

	Thimbles Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The thimble market is booming and a knowledgable thimble collector can reap great finds, and avoid reproductions and the greedy seller.
		Thimbles may be considered mundane, ordinary sewing tools by most, but there's a world of thimble collectors who think otherwise, including author Eleanor Johnson who's enjoyed needlework and crafts and who specializes in antique needlework tools.
		Thimbles And Thimble Cases will fit in the pamphlet section of any collection and provide a key to collecting a range of thimbles, from simple working thimbles to specialty pieces and their cases.
	www.antique-book-reviews.com /Sewing/Thimbles (984 words)

	Thimble Theater \| Information on Thimble Theater
		Theater East and West; perspectives toward a total theater.
		Thimble theater Nimble thimble Bone china thimble Athenas thimble Bone thimble Thimble island tour Glass thimble Cox drome thimble Collectible thimble Royal worcester thimble painter Welcome to the...
		Segar Thimble Theater that spawned his famous hero, Popeye the Sailor man. The teddy bear stories shown above are suited for children of all ages with a mix of science fiction.
	www.thimblesandmore.com /thimbletheater (1244 words)

	Hearts Afire -> Which Came First?
		The strip, Thimble Theater, was created by Elsie Segar and the star was originally Olive Oyl.
		After Fleischers shut down their studios, Paramount's Famous Studios in New Rochelle, N.Y. churned out Popeye cartoons for theaters up to 1956 and for TV in 1961 (as part of the Al Brodax-produced cartoons which were done by several studios).
		Thimble Theater is still around in comics sections; but with the wide spread of Popeye in animation, his legacy as a comic strip star is truly shrouded.
	s3.invisionfree.com /Hearts_Afire/index.php?showtopic=538 (407 words)

	Ed Black's Cartoon Flashback
		A 1923 Thimble Theater strip shows a change in character design for Castor Oyl and Ham Gravy as Sear's drawing ability improved just by doing it day after day.
		In Thimble Theater's early years, Olive Oyl's girth was a little thicker than later on, when she transformed into a walking stringbean.
		The very first appearance of Popeye in Segar's Thimble Theater strip was on January 17, 1929.
	www.ncs-glc.com /GLC/ed_black/segar/segar2.html (239 words)

	Popeye From Strip To Screen
		Graduating to his own strip for the Chicago American, Segar was then hired in 1919 by Hearst's New York Evening Journal to create the syndicated "Thimble Theater" strip.
		"Thimble Theater" depicted the adventures of Ham Gravy, his girlfriend Olive Oyl and her brother Castor.
		In the "Thimble Theater" of January 17, 1929, Ham and Castor decided to hire a crew to sail in search of the legendary Whiffle Hen.
	www.awn.com /mag/issue2.4/awm2.4pages/2.4langerpopeye.html (1550 words)

	Welcome to the Puppet House Theater of Stony Creek, CT.
		We are housed in a quaint, century-old theater.
		Our theater is part of the scenic Connecticut shoreline town of Stony Creek, a waterside community in the town of Branford.
		The Thimbles are a chain of small islands in the Long Island Sound.
	www.puppethouse.org (235 words)

	Popeye, the Sailor Man is a native Texan.
		Nicely alliterate as its name was, "Thimble Theater" still lacked a strong protagonist - no one like Charlie Brown, though he was years in the future in someone else's strip.
		Segar renamed his strip "Thimble Theater, Starring Popeye." Over time, "Thimble Theater" was forgotten and the strip became universally known as simply Popeye.
		The Victoria Advocate was the first newspaper in the nation to buy "Thimble Theater" when the strip went into syndication.
	www.texasescapes.com /MikeCoxTexasTales/146PopeyeComesToTexas.htm (548 words)

	Thimble, of thimble, silver thimble (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The Thimble Guild has been selling high quality collectible thimbles to its enthusiastic members for over 21 years thimble.
		Several thimble tubes with greater than 35% wall thinning were.
		Thimbles are held in place in thimble dome on clear lucite shelves by clear lucite knobs thimble.
	www.gomessageboard.com /thimble.html (260 words)

	Don Markstein's Toonopedia: Popeye the Sailor
		Ten years later, Castor and Ham embarked on an adventure that was to involve overseas travel, so on January 17, 1929, they went to the docks to arrange transportation.
		Are you a sailor?" Castor called to a one-eyed man wearing a nautical outfit, with an anchor tattooed on his arm.
		During the late 1980s and early '90s, the Thimble Theatre/Popeye comic strip was written and drawn by Bobby London, who in his earlier, "underground" days, had created Merton of the Movement and Dirty Duck — the latter of which found a mainstream outlet in National Lampoon and is still running in Playboy.
	www.toonopedia.com /popeye.htm (671 words)

	TV ACRES: Statues & Fountains - Popeye the Sailor
		Segar's muscle-bound Popeye character debuted in the comic strip "Thimble Theater" on January 17, 1929 when Olive Oyl's then boyfriend, Ham Gravy recruited Popeye for an overseas adventure.
		Popeye's creator died in 1938 at the age of forty-four from complications from a spleen ailment but his nautical hero remained to entertain generations to come.
		Between the years 1958-63, a number of Popeye cartoons, formerly seen only in theaters, became available to local television markets nationwide.
	www.tvacres.com /statues_popeye.htm (272 words)

	Thimble Theatre \| Information on Thimble Theatre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Since Popeye first appeared as a regular character in Elzie Segar's "Thimble Theatre" newspaper comic strip in 1929, the cob-pipe-chomping sailor has starred in 600 animated cartoons, along with his...
		Elzie Segar, the cartoonist wrote Thimble Theatre in the late teens and early twenties.
		The comic strip Popeye first appeared on January 17, 1929 as a minor character in Segar's newspaper cartoon strip Thimble Theatre, which had been running for years with protagonists Olive Oyl, her...
	www.thimblesandmore.com /thimbletheatre (1423 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online:
		Segar (1894-1938) was born in Chester, Illinois, and worked as a moving-picture machine operator, a house painter, and a photographer before his first cartoon effort was rejected by a St. Louis paper.
		The new character was probably inspired by Frank "Rocky" Feigle of Segar's hometown.
		By 1932 Popeye was the undisputed star of "Thimble Theatre," as evidenced in fan mail, toys, games, novelties, and jokes.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/PP/lxp2.html (396 words)

	Gary Scott Beatty, Illustrator, Colorist, Letterer, Publications (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		In 1929, a walkon roll in the popular Thimble Theater newspaper comic strip lead to a lead roll and a place in comedy fiction history.
		During the pre-Popeye decade of 1919 to 1928, a young Elzie Crisler Segar gathered a unique cast of characters for his Thimble Theatre newspaper strip.
		Within two years after Popeye's appearance, Thimble Theatre was found in nearly every large city in the country.
	www.emuskegon.com /beatty/popeye2.html (1038 words)

	Comics - MSN Encarta
		Other strips included Billy De Beck’s “Barney Google” (1919), which followed the misadventures of a born loser; Harold Gray’s “Little Orphan Annie” (1924), about a girl who is adopted by a millionaire; E. Segar’s “Thimble Theater” (1919); Frank Willard’s “Moon Mullins” (1923); and Milt Gross’s “Nize Baby” (1927).
		In the 1930s adventure and action strips dominated the comic strip form.
		Popeye the Sailor, famous for his reliance on spinach to make him strong, debuted in “Thimble Theater” in 1929.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761570388_2/Comics.html (2133 words)

	Rescuing Popeye - The Washington Times: Entertainment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Popeye first appeared as a bit character in "Thimble Theater," a newspaper comic strip penned by cartoonist E.C. Segar.
		A native of Chester, Ill., Segar introduced the strip to the New York Evening Journal in 1919 and filled it with a cast of eccentrics largely based on people he had known while growing up.
		Thimble Theater featured the picaresque adventures of spindly Olive Oyl, her brother Castor, and her hapless boyfriend, Ham Gravy.
	washingtontimes.com /entertainment/20040121-114500-8432r.htm (1071 words)

	CollectingChannel.com News Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		E.C. Segar's Thimble Theater began in the New York Journal on December 19, 1919 with not a sailor in sight.
		It was in 1929 when Popeye strode onto the center stage of Thimble Theater, a stranger whom Olive, Casper, and Harold witnessed in a battle with a villain named Snork.
		After being shot fifteen times at point-blank range, Popeye spent a night passing in and out of a coma, only to revive (after rubbing Casper's lucky charm, a magic "Wiffle Hen") and polish off Snork in a "fiskfight." Without a doubt, this sequence establishes Popeye as the world's first superhero.
	www.collectingchannel.com /cdsDetArt.asp?CID=24&PID=12910 (407 words)

	Fleischer Popeye Tribute
		The world famous spinach-munching, pipe-tooting, under-the-breath-muttering sailor with bulging forearms and a penchant for fistfights was first introduced to the public on January 17, 1929.
		That day, the one-eyed mariner walked onto E.C. "Elzie" Segar's (1894-1938) "Thimble Theater," King Feature Syndicate's popular daily comic strip, which ran in many newspapers and which starred Olive Oyl, her family, Cole and Nana, and Olive's boyfriend, Ham Gravy.
		Not only did Popeye show up again in more of Segar's engaging stories, but he eventually became the main star of the "Thimble Theater" funny pages.Rather quickly, Popeye replaced Ham Gravy, Olive's original boyfriend, and became the scrawny girl's romantic interest.
	www.calmapro.com /popeye/intro.php (789 words)

	Eugene (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Eugene the Jeep is a character in the Thimble Theater comic strip, which stars Popeye.
		His first appearance was in the March 16, 1936 strip.
		Although this rumor has made the most amount of publicity amongst the stories about the origins of the word, there is little actual evidence of its veracity.
	members.cox.net /bazzq/eugene.htm (155 words)

	Popeye's Thimble Theatre Homepage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		It started innocently enough in the Thimble Theatre comic strip when a tough, one-eyed sailor made his first appearance in 1929.
		E.C. Segar may not be a household name, but his legacy has lasted years beyond his death.
		The cast of Thimble Theatre includes some of the strangest characters in all the funny papers.
	home.earthlink.net /~thimbletheatre (172 words)

	The Olive Oyl Page
		Although Olive Oyl was an original cast member of the Thimble Theater long before Popeye came on the scene..
		In the late '20s, Olive was the star of Thimble Theater, E.C. Segar's daily comic strip that revolved around the Oyl family.
		Her parents were Cole and Nana Oyle and she had a brother named Castor Oyl and a boyfriend, Ham Gravy.
	www.popeye-n-olive.com /olive.html (396 words)

	Antique Lynx Popeye May 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The character Popeye first appeared on the newspaper comic strip Thimble Theater in 1929.
		The strip had been a popular feature many years prior to that time and Popeye was introduced as being hired by Ham Gravy and Castor Oyl to sail them to a place called Dice Island.
		Between the two viewing sources, plus the regular movie cartoons still being shown on the big screen, Popeye was being seen by greater audiences that ever before in history.
	www.antiquelynx.com /Articles/popeyeRR.htm (1315 words)

	I Yam What I Yam!
		When I did discover Popeye, at age six, it was in a movie theater, watching one of the sailorman's cartoons (probably produced by Paramount/Famous Studios) before the main feature began.
		A cartoonist friend of mine, Dan Steffan, was working on a possible comic book revival of Popeye and showed me some of his reference material.
		Later Popeye attributed his recovery to spinach, and he occasionally relied on spinach in a particularly harrowing fight, but by and large there wasn't much emphasis on the veggie in the strip.
	www.stevestiles.com /popeye.htm (1322 words)

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