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After Swee'Pea's birth father is killed, Swee'Pea is made the Crown Prince of Demonia. [6] As Swee'Pea is of royal birth, he needed protection from an evil uncle who wanted to eliminate him and take control of the kingdom. Swee'Pea's mother left him on the doorstep of the Oyl home, knowing Popeye the trustworthy sailor would protect him.
In the cartoons, she helps take care of a baby named Swee'Pea or she usually asks Popeye to take care of him if she's too busy; it's unknown if Swee'Pea is Olive Oyl's biological or adopted son. In the comics, Swee'Pea is a foundling under Popeye's care. Later sources (mostly in the cartoon series) say that Swee'Pea is Olive Oyl's cousin or ...
Popeye, Olive Oyl, Swee'Pea and Wimpy were featured prominently in the cartoon movie "Popeye Meets the Man Who Hated Laughter", which debuted on October 7, 1972, as one of the episodes of The ABC Saturday Superstar Movie. In this cartoon, Brutus also appears as a turban-wearing employee of the nemesis, Dr. Morbid Grimsby.
July 24: In E.C. Segar's newspaper comic strip Thimble Theatre Popeye and Olive Oyl's adopted child Swee'Pea makes her debut. [6] July 30: Roy Crane's Captain Easy makes its newspaper debut and will run until 1988. July 31: Milton Caniff's Dickie Dare makes its debut. [7]
Swee'Pea dashes by on a leopard's back, and the chase begins, the hippo's bars bending at Popeye's mad sprint. The sailor man strokes his way to the wildcat's hind, and, grasping his tail, pulls the mount out from under his rider, who falls safe and smiling to the sidewalk in front of Olive Oyl's house as his protector flings the leopard off ...
Swee' Pea: Billy Strayhorn; Sweets: Harry Edison; Swing's Senior Statesman: Benny Goodman a.k.a. "the Patriarch of the Clarinet", "the Professor", "the King of Swing"
Strayhorn was a gifted composer and arranger who seemed to flourish in Duke's shadow. Ellington was arguably a father figure and the band was affectionately protective of the diminutive and mild-mannered Strayhorn, nicknamed by the band "Strays", "Weely", and "Swee' Pea".
He later adopted 7 March, the date of his 1968 imprisonment, as his birthday. ... In the strip, Popeye and Swee'Pea have just landed on an uninhabited island. Popeye ...