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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 81. Chapters: Corto Maltese, Horatio Hornblower, Captain Nemo, Bluto, Popeye, Sinbad the Sailor, Peter Barlow, Nate Archibald, Patrick Trueman, Alan Lewrie, Billy Budd, Sailor Steve Costigan, Shipwreck, Captain Jat, D.C.O. Cargunka, Hydro-Man, Captain Haddock, Tattooed Man, Seaspray, William Bush, Rusty Collins, Jack Aubrey, Bloodscream, Edmond Dantes, Tar-Aldarion, Gilligan, Bibbo Bibbowski, Jack Driscoll, Glenn Quagmire, Edmund Blackadder, Lord Blackadder, Ben Jackson, Heatwave, Uncle Albert, Captain Birdseye, John Blackthorne, Alfred Bulltop Stormalong, Queequeg, Sandy Thomas, Cutter, Tom Ayrton, The Skipper, Captain Gault, Ishmael, Waverider, Lord Ramage, Poopdeck Pappy, Peter Peachfuzz, Captain Strong, Georges Querelle, Lance O'Casey, Captain Compass, Nathaniel Drinkwater, El Supremo. Excerpt: Popeye the Sailor Man is a fictional hero notable for appearing in comic strips and animated films as well as numerous television shows. He was created by Elzie Crisler Segar, and first appeared in the daily King Features comic strip Thimble Theatre on January 17, 1929. Popeye has now become the strip's title as well. Although Segar's Thimble Theatre strip, first published on December 19, 1919, was in its tenth year when Popeye made his debut, the sailor quickly became the main focus of the strip and Thimble Theatre became one of King Features' most popular properties during the 1930s. Thimble Theatre was continued after Segar's death in 1938 by several writers and artists, most notably Segar's assistant Bud Sagendorf. The strip, now titled Popeye, continues to appear in first-run installments in its Sunday edition, written and drawn by Hy Eisman. The daily strips are reprints of old Sagendorf stories. In 1933, Max and Dave Fleischer's Fleischer Studios adapted the Thimble Theatre characters into a series of Popeye the Sailor theatrica...
