A seagoing superhero, Popeye was first seen in 1929 in E.C. Segar's Thimble Theatre. The comic strip itself had been running, dispensing fairly cockeyed mock-adventure continuities, since King Features Syndicate introduced it in 1919. Segar,...

Popeye the Sailor is a comic strip character, later featured in popular animated cartoons. He was created by Elzie Crisler Segar,[1] and first appeared in the daily King Features comic strip Thimble Theatre on January 17, 1929. Segar's first Thimble...

ON JANUARY 17TH, 1929, Olive Oyl's brother, Castor, was looking for a sailor to man his ship. He ran across a fellow on the dock whose face looked like a ship wreck. He had fat forearms, and was wearing what looked to be a...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The owner of Popeyes Famous Fried Chicken and Biscuits reportedly is searching for $110 million in private loans to pay off debt from the recent acquisition of Church's Fried Chicken. Church's has 12 restaurant locations in Oklahoma City. ...

A 4-year-old girl was mauled at a children's birthday party by a cougar that had been brought in by a wild-animal business to entertain the youngsters, authorities said.The girl was attacked on Nov. 18 at the home of Goya Foods president Francisco Unanue during a...

Abraham Lincoln apparently doesn't attract votes like he used to in Illinois.The state Bureau of Tourism announced the results of its "Seven Wonders of Illinois" promotion, which the public began voting on in February. And nowhere on the list is anything to do with the...