Where Popeye is concerned, it’s worth immediately drilling down on what this all means for creators who want to tell their own stories about the spinach-scarfing sailor. Long story short ...

Popeye remains the world's greatest spinach salesman nearly a century after he made his comic-strip debut on the eve of the ...

However, later additions like Popeye's spinach and Tintin's signature colors remain protected. Literary classics by Faulkner, Hemingway, and Steinbeck also join the public domain. As with Mickey ...

But this Popeye isn’t the one that eats spinach to grow big muscles; the brawny sailor didn’t start eating spinach to gain strength until 1932 (though the very first Popeye could still pack a ...