William Arnold "Billy" Costello was the voice behind the first on-screen Popeye (1933-1935). Costello was a Rhode Islander, ...

Episode 3 Muskels Schmuskels Tue, Jan 12, 1960 6 mins Popeye and Olive are watching Brutus's strongman act at the carnival. Olive swoons over Brutus's big muscles, but Popeye is not impressed.

Skiddle-dee-dee.” “Anybody can do Popeye,” says the man who invented the voices of the cartoon sailor, his lady-love Olive Oyl, and his perennial rival, Brutus (since renamed Bluto).

The Brutus' name was eventually used in the comic books beginning with Popeye #64 (1962). This issue also featured an unidentified bearded brute, known as Boss, in another story.

Popeye, though unusually passive in response to Olive's despair, is still capable of exploding into a spinach-fueled berzerker rage. When he's on spinach, Popeye can send Brutus flying around the ...

It was based on Popeye the cartoon character. What ever happened to him? The goal of the game was to run around the screen, collecting a certain number of items, while avoiding hazards, mainly Brutus.

Only Popeye comics from 1929 are in the public domain. Other Popeye media, including Paramount’s 1930s and 1940s “Popeye the Sailor” cartoons, remain under copyright.

Popeye may be famous for the confident credo “I yam what I yam,” but that doesn’t mean the Sailor Man says no to a good makeover. The spinach-gulping and bottle-armed comics hero turned 93 ...