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Popeye

Popeye was an American comic strip and cartoon character.

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  • Popeye

Popeye the Sailor Man was created by Elzie C. Segar. Popeye appeared in the comic Doe Mee (read by Margot and Anne Frank). In 1942 Popeye disappeared from the magazine owing to his American background and did not return until 1946.[1]

Starting in 1933, Max and Dave Fleischer made a series of cartoons featuring Popeye for Paramount Pictures.[2] Anne wrote in her diary on 8 May 1944 that, given the fact that she was eating so much spinach, maybe she would end up 'as strong as Popeye’.[3]

Footnotes

  1. ^ Lamboek Comicoclopedia: Doe Mee.
  2. ^ Wikipedia: Popeye.
  3. ^ Anne Frank, Diary Version A, 8 May 1944, in: The Collected Works, transl. from the Dutch by Susan Massotty, London [etc.]: Bloomsbury Continuum, 2019.