Thank you Elzie Segar!

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For creating POPEYE! http://www.lambiek.net/segar.htm

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1. A classic strip

...from a classic tale. Popeye and his friends went head to head with the Sea Hag to find her treasure. Story lasted for months. Try doing that in a comic strip today.

"Thimble Theater" was definitely one of the greatest strips of all time.

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2. Actually I'm more acquainted with the cartoons.

I like the "sliding door showing title" ones best.

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4. Let every knee bow before MAX FLEISCHER!

He was the Master Of All Animation--and probably smoking something.

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3. Did you know that Popeye was in the Coast Guard, Navy AND Army?

Not in the comic strip, but in the cartoons.

http://www.mtcnet.net/~bierly/popfaq.htm

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5. Oh my. Look WHAT I found by clicking here and there.

http://tesla.liketelevision.com