That's Popeye. An underdog with bulging forearms, a mean uppercut and a love of canned spinach. Unassuming, unsophisticated and undeterred by a challenge, from the minute he walked into the comic strip, THIMBLE THEATER, and muttered his famous “’Ja think I’m a cowboy?” line, Popeye the Sailor Man captured the hearts of millions of fans around the globe. As the star of his own comics ...
| Popeye the Sailor That's Popeye. An underdog with bulging forearms, a mean uppercut and a love of canned spinach. Unassuming, unsophisticated and undeterred by a challenge, from the minute he walked into the comic strip, THIMBLE THEATER, and muttered his famous “Ja think I’m a cowboy?” line, Popeye the Sailor Man captured the hearts of millions of fans around the globe. As the star of ...
Philadelphia Tribune: Popeye the Sailor Man is getting a makeover at age 93
Popeye may be famous for the confident credo "I yam what I yam," but that doesn't mean the Sailor Man says no to a good makeover. The spinach-gulping and bottle-armed comics hero turned 93 in January.
Popeye is what he is, a good-guy underdog with bulging forearms, a mean uppercut and a penchant for canned spinach. The only thing he loves more than spinach and the sea is his flighty, flirty girlfriend, Olive Oyl.
Popeye | I Yam What I Yam and Dats What I Yam
On January 17th1929, E.C. Segar introduced Popeye into Thimble Theatre’s cast. With a simple “Ja think I’m a cowboy?”, Popeye went from a supporting character to the star of the comic strip, and eventually into animated adventures produced in different eras by Fleischer Studios, Famous Studios and King Features.