Vintage Popeye Toys: Biceps on Display

Comic book, movie and cartoon star Popeye, the good-natured, sailor with bulging biceps and a love of spinach, turned 91 this year. A recent Rich Penn auction in Iowa brought high prices for mechanical Popeye toys, many with price-adding original boxes. A rare mechanical steel and tin toy of Popeye sitting in a boat, holding […]

Comic Strip Toys

All sorts of toys have been made to resemble famous comic characters such as the Yellow Kid, Maggie and Jiggs, or Snoopy. Each toy usually dates from the time of the strip or cartoon, but many revivals occur, and during the 1980s there was new interest in Mickey Mouse, Popeye, Orphan Annie, Betty Boop, Flash […]