Now that Popeye has entered the public domain, it's interesting to look back on his earliest appearances, particularly his ...

Was Olive Oyl based on a woman who owned a general store in E.C. Segar's hometown? Elzie Segar grew up in Chester, Illinois in the late 19th/early 20th Century, and it seems clear that he did, in ...

Next month, after 70 years of an often-bizarre dating relationship that makes Dennis Rodman and Carmen Electra look like Ozzie and Harriet, Popeye the Sailor Man will finally marry Olive Oyl.