American cartoonist E. C. Segar being carried by actor Harry Foster Welch (1893 - 1973) as an incarnation of Segar's most famous creation, the indomitable sailor Popeye, circa 1935.

The easy thing to do with Popeye is have him kill a bunch of teenagers. That's what a few filmmakers did with Mickey Mouse last year, when the first version of Walt Disney's moneymaking rodent ...

Popeye The Sailor, poster, circa 1945. LMPC via Getty Images But as with Mickey Mouse last year and Winnie the Pooh in 2022, only the earliest version is free for reuse.

The first iteration of Popeye the Sailor, literary classics by Dashiell Hammett and William Faulkner, Alfred Hitchcock’s first sound film, and songs like “Singin’ in the Rain” and ...