Characters originating in the comic strips[edit] Listed in rough order of original appearance Olive Oyl Castor Oyl (Olive Oyl's brother) Cole Oyl (Olive Oyl's father) Nana Oyl (Olive Oyl's mother) Ham Gravy (full name Harold Hamgravy, Olive Oyl's original boyfriend) Popeye the Sailor The Sea Hag The Sea Hag's vultures, specifically Bernard J. Wellington Wimpy George W. Geezil (the local cobbler who hates Wimpy) Rough House (a cook who runs a local restaurant, The Rough House) Swee'Pea (Popeye's adopted baby son in the comics, Olive's cousin in the cartoons) King Blozo Toar (a 900 pound caveman living in the modern age) Bluto/Brutus Goons, specifically Alice the Goon Poopdeck Pappy (Popeye's 99-year-old long-lost father; also a sailor) Eugene the Jeep Barnacle Bill (a fellow sailor and old friend) Oscar Dufus (the son of a family friend) Granny (Popeye's grandmother and Poopdeck's mother) Bernice (The "Whiffle Bird" in 1960s King Features TV shorts) O. G. Watasnozzle (a character with a large nose, as his name indicates) Otis O. Otis, "The world's smartest detective"[52] as well as Wimpy's cousin filmmaker Otis Von Lens Cover[53][54] Characters originating in the cartoons[edit] Pipeye, Pupeye, Poopeye, Peepeye (Popeye's identical nephews) Shorty (Popeye's shipmate in three World War II era Famous studios shorts) Diesel Oyl (Olive's identical niece, a conceited brat who appears in three of the 1960s King Features shorts) Popeye, Jr. (son of Popeye and Olive Oyl, exclusive of the series Popeye and Son) Tank (son of Bluto, exclusive of the series Popeye and Son) Filmography[edit] Theatrical and television cartoons[edit] Popeye the Sailor (produced by Fleischer Studios) (1933--1942, 108 cartoons) Popeye the Sailor (produced by Famous Studios) (1942--1957, 122 cartoons) Popeye the Sailor (1960--1962; produced by Jack Kinney Productions, Rembrandt Films (animated by Gene Deitch), Halas and Batchelor, Larry Harmon Pictures, TV Spots, and Paramount Cartoon Studios for King Features Syndicate, 220 cartoons) The All-New Popeye Hour, later "The Popeye and Olive Show" (1978--1983, CBS; produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions, 159 cartoons) Popeye and Son (1987--1988, CBS; produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions, 26 cartoons) The Popeye Show (2001--2003, Cartoon Network, repeats) In total, 638 Popeye cartoons were produced between 1933 and 1988. Television specials and feature-length films[edit] Popeye Meets the Man Who Hated Laughter (1972) The Popeye Valentine's Day Special: Sweethearts at Sea (1979, produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions) Popeye (1980 live-action film, produced by Paramount Pictures and Walt Disney Pictures, directed by Robert Altman) Popeye's Voyage: The Quest for Pappy (2004 telefilm, produced by Mainframe Entertainment for Lions Gate Entertainment and King Features) Popeye (2015, produced by Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures Animation) DVD collections[edit] Popeye the Sailor: 1933-1938, Volume 1 (released July 31, 2007) features Fleischer cartoons released from 1933 through early 1938 and contains the color Popeye specials Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor and Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves. Popeye the Sailor: 1938-1940, Volume 2 (released June 17, 2008) features Fleischer cartoons released from mid-1938 through 1940 and includes the last color Popeye special Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp. Popeye the Sailor: 1941-1943, Volume 3 (released November 4, 2008) features the remaining black-and-white Popeye cartoons released from 1941 to 1943, including the final Fleischer-produced and earliest Famous-produced entries in the series. Popeye - 75th Anniversary Collector's edition (released April 27, 2004) features 85 cartoons from the Popeye the Sailor 1960s series. Popeye and Friends: Volume 1 (released June 17, 2008) features a collection of eight cartoons from The All-New Popeye Hour. A second volume containing cartoons from Popeye and Son was scheduled, but it was cancelled before being released.

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