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FREE POPEYE: LETS YOU AND HIM FIGHT! VOLUME 3 PDF E. C. Segar | 168 pages | 02 Dec 2008 | Fantagraphics | 9781560979623 | English | Seattle, United States Popeye - Wikipedia This article is about the franchise as a whole. For the character, see Popeye. For other meanings, see Popeye disambiguation. Popeye the Sailor was created by E. Segar as a supporting character in the daily King Features comic strip Thimble Theatreappearing on January 17, The character has since continued to appear in comics and animated cartoons, in the cinema as well as on television. Popeye also became the strip's title in later years. Even though Segar's Thimble Theatre strip was in its 10th year when Popeye made his debut inthe sailor quickly became the main focus of the strip and Thimble Theatre became one of King Features's most popular properties during the s. Thimble Theatre was continued after Segar's death in by several writers and artists, most notably Segar's assistant Bud Sagendorf. The strip, now titled Popeyecontinues to appear in first-run installments in its Sunday edition, written and drawn by Hy Eisman. The daily strips are reprints of old Sagendorf stories. These cartoons proved to be among the most popular of the s, and the Fleischers — and later Paramount's own Famous Studios — continued production through Over the years, Popeye has also appeared in comic books, television cartoons, arcade and video gameshundreds of advertisements and peripheral products, and a live-action film directed by Robert Altman starring comedian Robin Williams as Popeye. Differences in Popeye 's story and characterization show up depending upon which medium he is presented in. While Swee'Pea is definitively the ward of Popeye in the comic strips, he is often depicted as belonging to Olive Oyl in cartoons. The cartoons also occasionally feature family members of Popeye that have never appeared in the strip, notably his look-alike nephews Pipeye, Peepeye, Poopeye, and Pupeye. Even though there is no absolute sense of continuity in the stories, certain plot and presentation elements remain mostly constant, including purposeful contradictions in Popeye's capabilities. Though at times he seems bereft of manners or uneducated, Popeye is often depicted as capable of coming up with solutions to problems that to the police, or, most importantly, the scientific community seem insurmountable. Popeye has, alternatively, displayed Sherlock Holmes-like investigative prowess determining for instance that his beloved Olive was abducted by estimating the depth of the villains' footprints in the sandscientific ingenuity as his construction, within a few hours, of a " spinach -drive" spaceshipor oversimplified yet successful diplomatic argumentation by presenting to diplomatic conferences his own existence and superhuman strength as the only true guarantee of world peace. Popeye's vastly versatile exploits are deemed even more amusing by a few standard plot elements. One is the love triangle between Popeye, Olive, and Blutoand the latter's endless machinations to claim Olive at Popeye's expense. Another is his near-saintly perseverance to Popeye: Lets You and Him Fight! Volume 3 any obstacle to please Olive — who, quite often, renounces Popeye for Bluto's dime-store advances. She is the only character Popeye will permit to give him a thumping. Finally, in terms of the endless array of villain plots, Popeye mostly comes to the truth by "accidentally" sneaking up on the villains, Popeye: Lets You and Him Fight! Volume 3 moment they are bragging about their schemes' ingenuity, thus revealing everything to an enraged Popeye, who uses his "fisks" in the name of justice. Segar and was his third published strip. The strip first appeared in the New York Journala newspaper operated by King Features owner William Randolph Hearst, on Popeye: Lets You and Him Fight! Volume 3 19, before later expanding into more papers. In its early years, the strip featured Popeye: Lets You and Him Fight! Volume 3 acting out various stories and scenarios in theatrical style hence the strip's name. After the strip moved away from its initial focus, it settled into a comedy-adventure style featuring Olive, Ham Gravy, and Olive's enterprising brother Castor Oyl. Olive's parents Cole and Nana Oyl also made frequent appearances. Popeye first appeared in the strip on January 17, as a minor character. He was initially hired by Castor Oyl and Ham to crew a ship for a voyage to Dice Islandthe location of a casino owned by the crooked gambler Fadewell. Castor intended to break the bank at the casino using the unbeatable good luck conferred by stroking the hairs on the head of Bernice the Whiffle Hen. Weeks later, on the trip back, Popeye was shot many times by Popeye: Lets You and Him Fight! Volume 3 Snork, a stooge of Fadewell's, but survived by rubbing Bernice's head. After the adventure, Popeye left the strip, but due to reader reaction, he was quickly brought back. The Popeye character became so popular that he was given a larger role, and the strip was expanded into many more newspapers as a result. Though initial strips presented Olive as being less than impressed with Popeye, she eventually left Ham Gravy to become Popeye's girlfriend and Ham left the strip as a regular. Over the years, however, she has often displayed a fickle attitude towards the sailor. Castor Oyl continued to come up with get-rich-quick schemes and enlisted Popeye in his misadventures. Eventually he settled down as a detective and later on bought a ranch out West. Popeye: Lets You and Him Fight! Volume 3 has seldom appeared in recent years. InPopeye received a foundling baby in the mail, whom he adopted and named " Swee'Pea. Wellington Wimpya Popeye: Lets You and Him Fight! Volume 3 -loving moocher who would "gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today" he was also soft-spoken and cowardly; Vickers Wellington bombers were nicknamed "Wimpys" after the character ; George W. Geezila local cobbler who spoke in a heavily affected accent and habitually attempted to murder or wish death upon Wimpy; and Eugene the Jeepa yellow, vaguely dog-like animal from Africa with magical powers. In addition, the strip featured the Sea Haga terrible pirateas well as the last witch on Earth her even more terrible sister excepted ; Alice the Goona monstrous creature who entered the strip as the Sea Popeye: Lets You and Him Fight! Volume 3 henchwoman and continued as Swee'Pea's babysitter; and Toara caveman. Segar's strip was quite different from the cartoons that followed. The stories were more complex, with many characters that never appeared in the cartoons Bill Barnaclefor example. Spinach usage was rare and Bluto made only one appearance. Segar would sign some of his early Popeye comic strips with a cigar due to his last name being a homophone of "cigar" pronounced SEE-gar. Thimble Theatre soon became one of King Features' most popular strips during the s and, following an eventual name change to Popeye in the s, remains one of the longest running strips in syndication today. The strip carried on after Segar's death inat which point he was replaced by a series of artists. Acknowledging Popeye's growing popularity, the Thimble Theatre strip was renamed Thimble Theatre Starring Popeye during the s and s, and was eventually retitled, simply Popeyethe name under which it continues to run. After Segar's death inmany different artists were hired to draw the strip. Doc Winner and Bela Zaboly successively handled the artwork during Sims's run. Eventually, Ralph Stein stepped in to write the strip until the series Popeye: Lets You and Him Fight! Volume 3 taken over by Bud Sagendorf in Sagendorf wrote and drew the daily strip untiland continued to write and draw the Sunday strip until his death in Sagendorf, who had been Segar's assistant, made a definite effort to retain much of Segar's classic style, although his art is instantly discernible. Sagendorf continued to use many obscure characters from the Segar years, especially O. Wotasnozzle and King Blozo. Sagendorf's new characters, such as the Thung, also had a very Segar-like quality. What set Sagendorf apart from Segar more than anything else was his sense of pacing. Where plotlines moved very quickly with Segar, it would sometimes take an entire week of Sagendorf's daily strips for the plot to be advanced even a small amount. From tothe daily strip was written and drawn by Bobby Londonwho, after some controversy, was fired from the strip for a story that could be taken to satirize abortion. London's strips put Popeye and his friends in updated situations, but kept the spirit of Segar's original. One classic storyline, titled "The Return of Bluto", showed the sailor battling every version Popeye: Lets You and Him Fight! Volume 3 the bearded bully from the comic strip, comic books, and animated films. The Sunday edition of the comic strip is currently drawn by Hy Eismanwho took over in The daily strip began featuring reruns of Sagendorf's strips after London was fired and continues to do so today. On January 1,70 years since the death of his creator, Segar's character of Popeye though not the various films, television series, theme music and other media based on him became public domain in most countries, but remains under copyright in the United States. Because Segar was an employee of King Features Syndicate when he created the Popeye character for the company's Thimble Theatre strip, Popeye is treated as a work for hire under U. Works for hire are protected for 95 years from publication or years from creation, whichever is shorter.