It was during WWII that Popeye reached his incredible popularity. Spoiler alert: Popeye saves the day, but not before telling Bluto to “ stop in the name of the Coast Guard.” In the aforementioned 1937 film is when we see Popeye in the Coast Guard, on guard duty and deploying to intercept “Abu Hassan” (aka Bluto), who is terrorizing the Middle East. When it became obvious that Popeye was the real star, he made a jump to feature films. He started life as a character in the comic strip Thimble Theater in 1929, a comic actually centered around his off-and-on girlfriend, Olive Oyl. Popeye the Sailor meets Ali Baba’s Forty Thieves wasn’t Popeye’s first feature. The sailor man’s creator did not live to see the United States enter World War II, but it was in 1941 that his creation joined the Navy and the legend of Popeye the rough and tumble U.S. A two-reel feature titled Popeye the Sailor meets Ali Baba’s Forty Thieves introduces Popeye serving at a Coast Guard station. The famous sailor did join the Navy, but as of 1937, Popeye was firmly in the Coast Guard.
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This may seem like blasphemy to some, but Popeye started his professional career as a civilian mariner and then Coast Guardsman. Popeye the Sailor Man was originally Popeye the Coast Guardsman Who didn't love the cartoons? We watched them religiously. Through the years, Segar kept in touch with Rocky and always helped him with money giving him a small percentage of what he earned from his ‘Popeye’ illustrations. He claimed she even dressed much the same way. She apparently actually looked much like the Olive Oyl character in his comics. She was Dora Paskel, owner of a smallgrocery store in Chester. Segar claimed that ‘Olive Oyl,’ along with other characters, was also loosely based on an actual person. Naturally Fiegel was flattered and agreed. He honored Fiegel by asking if he could model his new comic strip character, ‘Popeye the Sailor Man,’ after him. Years later, Segar became a cartoonist and developed a comic strip called ‘Thimble Theater.’
The creator of Popeye, Elzie Crisler Segar, grew up in Chester and, as a young man, met Rocky at the tavern and would sit for hours listening to the old sailor’s amazing ‘sea stories.’ In his spare time as a bouncer, Rocky would entertain the customers by regaling them with exciting stories of adventures he claimed to have had over his career as a sailor crossing the ‘Seven Seas.’
He also ‘always’ smoked his pipe, so he always spoke out of one side of his mouth. As a result, he had a deformed eye ("Pop-eye"). Rocky quickly developed a reputation for always being involved in fighting (and usually winning). He was later hired by Wiebusch's Tavern in the city of Chester, Illinois as a ‘Bouncer’ to maintain order in the rowdy bar. He was born in 1868, in Poland and, as a child, immigrated to the United States with his parents, who settled down in a small town in Illinois.Īfter a 20-year career as a sailor in the Merchant Marines, Fiegel retired.
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