ANATOMY of a SAILOR (POPEYE)

Popeye the Sailor Man… Toot toot! Here's the story of how he was born and other cool Popeye stuff. Elzie Segar and told him to create a comic strip called "Thimble Theater." That's all the guidance he had; the rest was up to him. He came up with a weird bunch of characters. A gawky old maid named Olive Oyl, her boyfriend Ham Gravy, her loopy brother Castor Oyl, and her parents Cole and Nana Oyl.

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