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Castor Oyl is Olive Oyl's older brother, debuting in Thimble Theatre on January 14, 1920. While initially a minor character defined chiefly by his bizarre, paradoxical antics (often alleged by other characters to be a product of insanity), Segar progressively adapted Castor into more of an ambitious, enterprising everyman figure as the strip evolved into a serialized comedy-adventure style.
Ham Gravy (full name Harold Hamgravy, Olive Oyl's original boyfriend) Castor Oyl (Olive Oyl's brother) Cole Oyl (Olive Oyl's father) Nana Oyl (Olive Oyl's mother) Poopdeck Pappy (Popeye's 99-year-old long-lost father; also a sailor) Professor O. G. Watasnozzle [170] [171] (a character with a large nose, as his name indicates)
Intended as a minor supporting character, Popeye proved so popular with readers that he was made a permanent member of the main cast. [4] As Popeye's role expanded, Ham was increasingly phased out of the comic, with the sailor ultimately replacing him as the subject of Olive Oyl's affections following a series of Sunday strips in March 1930.
English: This strip shows the first appearance of Popeye in the comic. He is featured with Hamm Gravy and Castor Oyl. He is featured with Hamm Gravy and Castor Oyl. Popeye quickly would become the main character.
Olive Oyl is a cartoon character created by E. C. Segar in 1919 for his comic strip Thimble Theatre. [6] The strip was later renamed Popeye after the sailor character that became the most popular member of the cast; however, Olive Oyl was a main character for a decade before Popeye's 1929 appearance.
The Thimble Theatre strip made its debut on December 19, 1919, featuring the characters Olive Oyl, Castor Oyl and Harold Hamgravy, whose name was quickly shortened in the strip to simply "Ham Gravy". They were the strip's leads for about a decade. [2] Segar began writing long storylines or "continuities" for Thimble Theatre in 1922.
Original – This strip shows the first appearance of Popeye in the comic. He is featured with Hamm Gravy and Castor Oyl. Popeye quickly would become the main character. Reason High EV and good scan quality. Happy Public Domain Day, Popeye! Articles in which this image appears Popeye FP category for this image
In the animated Popeye cartoons produced by Max Fleischer and later by Famous Studios, Swee'Pea was portrayed as being in the care of Olive Oyl, although it was unclear whether he was her own child. In Baby Wants Spinach (1950) Olive Oyl asks Popeye to watch her “cousin Swee’Pea.” (In the King Features cartoons of the early 1960s, it is ...