The phenomenon of Popeye the Sailor
When you are thinking about superheroes, in your mind immediately appears the image of a brave guy with a pile of muscles and mask. However, the real phenomenon among all these «rescuers of the world» was the sailor Popeye. Despite the non-standard appearance for the hero, he had a superpower due to simple spinach. This character was so popular in the 20th century.
In the 1929 one of the most unusual superheroes in the history of the US − the sailor Popeya appeared in comics of Thimble Theater.
The author was the cartoonist Elzie Crisler Segar. Initially, this character was secondary in the storyline, but the readers liked him so much. That’s why the author decided to create a new story and devoted it to sailor Popeya.
It was believed that the prototype of Popeya became Segar’s friend a...





