Topic on User talk:Looney Toons
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I looked it up, while the comic strip Thimble Theater did first appear in 1919, Popeye was not introduced as a character until 1929. (Popeye is one of the biggest examples of an Ascended Extra in media history.)
Not sure how to phrase this though.