Is Popeye the sailor a Disney Character???

Question

I was just thinking about him and didnt know. Thanks

Answer 1

He originally was Fleischer ( a strong rival of Disney), but eventually got bounced about, landing at Paramount

Answer 2

No only the Popeye 1980 film was by Disney
It´s from King Feactures The Comics & the 30's, 40's and 50's animated shorts were published by The King Features.
The animated shorts from the 50's and 60's were published by Paramount
The animated shorts from the 70's and 80's were published by Hanna-Barbera and Waner Bros.
The Arcade game was published by Nintendo
and the 1980 live-action movie was published by Disney and Paramount
but officially Popeye is by King Features.

Answer 3

Popeye the Sailor is a comic strip character, later featured in popular animated cartoons. He was created by Elzie Crisler Segar[1] (who would sign some of his early Popeye comic strips with a cigar because it sounded the same as his name) and first appeared in the King Features comic strip Thimble Theater on January 17, 1929.

Popeye quickly became the main focus of the strip, which was one of King Features' most popular strips during the 1930s. Thimble Theater, carried on after Segar's death in 1938 by artists such as Bud Sagendorf, was renamed Popeye in the 1970s. Today drawn by Hy Eisman, Popeye continues to appear in first-run strips in Sunday papers (daily Popeye strips are reruns of older strips).

In 1933, Max and Dave Fleischer's Fleischer Studios adapted the Thimble Theater characters into a series of Popeye the Sailor theatrical cartoon shorts for Paramount Pictures. These cartoons proved to be among the most popular of the 1930s, and Popeye at one time rivaled Mickey Mouse for popularity among audiences.

After Paramount assumed control of the Fleischer Studio in 1942, they continued producing the series until 1957. Later Popeye cartoons were produced for television from 1960 to 1962 by King Features, and from 1978 to 1982 and 1987 to 1988 by Hanna-Barbera Productions (now owned by Warner Brothers).

Answer 4

It's a Cartoon Character

Answer 5

Nope. I think it was King Syndicate.

Looked it up. It was the Fleicher Brothers who did the cartoon films. "Popeye was created by Elzie Segar a cartoonist who wrote the strip Thimble Theatre in the late teens and early twenties. This strip originally had the characters of Olive Oyl, Ham Gravy (Olive's first boyfriend), Cole and Nana Oyl (Olive's parents) and Castor Oyl. On January 17, 1929, Popeye made his first appearance in the strip. His first words, a reply to the question, "Are you a sailor?" ; were "Ja think I'm a cowboy?" (from the attached).

Answer 6

Elzie Crisler Segar (December 8, 1894 – October 13, 1938) was an American cartoonist, best known as the creator of Popeye, a character who first appeared in his newspaper comic strip, "Thimble Theater", in 1929

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Answer 9

Nope. I believe it's United Artists. But ut us definately not Disney. THough I'm sure they could buy the rights if they wanted.

Answer 10

I don't think so. I can't remember if he was in Who Framed Roger Rabbit or not because that is Warner Brothers.