Popeye

Now, our number two is Olive Oil.

And again, this is Olive Oil from the cartoons because Olive in the comic strip, Thimble Theater, before it became Popeye, was a headstrong woman and stood up for herself and knew what she wanted.

But in the cartoons, she just constantly threw Popeye over for Bluto because it turned into a running gag and it got boring.

I mean, as a kid, I just did not want to watch Popeye cartoons.

Who am I? I am a fictional character.

I first turned up in a newspaper comic strip called Thimble Theatre, and that was back in January of 1929.

And the readers liked me so much, within months, I'd become the main character of that particular comic strip.

I was created by a man who spent a bit of time around the docks of a small town in Illinois and he based my look on a real person.

That's the moral, that's the message to the kiddies.

Good.

Four clues now for the Who Am I? If you remember, cartoon character, Thimble Theatre, based on a real-life dock worker, Who Am I? That real-life dock worker, he had a squint and a square jaw, and he was known for getting in fights and winning those fights.

I'm generally drawn with one eye permanently squeezed shut, a corncob pipe clamped in my teeth, forearms like tree trunks and a voice that mumbles half of every sentence.