On October 30th, 1932, Popeye is in Roughhouse's Café commenting upon the clouds of flies swarming about. Roughhouse is at a loss as to how to be rid of them and Popeye devises a solution which will remove all of Roughhouse's pest, both six, legged and two. He sprays sugar syrup on Wimpy, which naturally draws the flies to him. Popeye then lures Wimpy outside with a hamburger, which he places in the fork of a tree out of the moocher's reach. Wimpy patiently waits for the burger to fall as Popeye returns to a fly and Wimpy free diner.

    In the next Sunday strip on November 6th, Popeye is smugly regaling Roughhouse's patrons with the tale of how he disposed of the flies. In the third panel Geezil makes his first ever appearance, `slupping' a bowl of soup and saying, "Ain't it great? No flies. I love to have no flies around my soup."     This would be Geezil's one and only strip appearance for five entire months. Why Segar would introduce a new character then cast him aside after only one strip is anyone's guess. Geezil's next strip would be Sunday, April 2nd, 1933. Again he's at Roughhouse's counter but this time he's having a hamburger and coffee. When Wimpy sits next to him Geezil leaves, saying, "I'll take my food at a table. I wouldn't eat near such a person." Wimpy ignores him.

    One week later on April 9th Geezil makes his 3rd appearance. In this strip Roughhouse is apparently on the verge of a nervous breakdown due to Wimpy's relentless patronage and his customers are worried. Popeye says, "Jus' look at poor ol' Roughhouse. Wimpy's got his goat so bad he's almost crazy." Geezil reples, "Wimpy, bah! I don't like such peoples. What he needs should be a chasing from town." When Wimpy shows for his morning mooch they proceed to do just that.

    Geezil is given a few weeks off before his next appearance on April 30th, still a Sunday. In this strip Roughhouse and his customers decide that when Wimpy arrives, as he always does, they will, in Roughhouse's words, "Lump on him and send him to the hospital for a week." Everyone is anxious to get in on the pummeling including Popeye and Geezil, who says, "We should kill him to pieces." As they wait for their victim to arrive they begin to hear music coming from outside the diner. They comment on how beautiful the music is. Geezil says, "Just like I should be in Heaven." Suddenly Wimpy appears in the doorway playing a violin. Someone in the crowd screams "It's him!" They all move in for the "Lumping on" but Popeye bars the way saying "Stan' back, ya swabs, or I'll lay ya among the swee'peas. Ain't ya got no sediment?!" He then takes on the whole mob of patrons as Wimpy calmly supplies accompaniment in the background.

    Up to this point it's important to note that Geezil has not yet been given a name in any of his four strip appearances. He is just another anonymous, albeit much hairier, patron. The significance of his lack of a name if any is unknown. Apparently Segar had plans of some sort for him though because on May 14, 1933, two weeks after Geezil's 4th strip appearance, he is featured in the "Sappo" comic strip. Segar had been using the last panel of the top piece to give quick drawing lessons to his readers. He had also drawn some play money with the faces of Popeye, Olive, Cole Oyl, etc. on the face. The May 14th piece portrays Geezil's face but the title under the likeness reads "Mr. Geezer."

    Geezil's identity crisis would continue in his next strip appearance four months later. On September 24th, he is again in Roughhouse's when Wimpy approaches and says "Mister Geezle (sic), Come have a drink with me on you."

    Finally, on December 31st, 1933, Geezil appears in the Plunder Island continuity and is called `Mister Geezil' by Roughhouse. It's his sixth appearance in a period of 13 months but at least they finally got his name right. Or did they? One might think at this point that George's identity crisis would be over but on March 25th, 1934 he calls himself `George G. Geezil' and again on April 4th. It isn't until November 11th, 1935, a full two years and 33 strip appearances before he would finalize his name as George W. Geezil.

    This seems to be somewhat cavalier treatment of George by Segar and why it occurred will probably never be known. Taking the strip as a whole though, it should be noted that Segar wasn't a stickler for consistency. He would often change characters' name spellings and even their physical appearance on occasion, such as when he inexpliciby gave a bald Castor Oyl hair.

    Geezil would make a total of 46 strip appearances during Segar's lifetime; all save two would be in the Sunday strip. So it can be said that he was a regular character even if he wasn't a frequent one.

    One last comment concerning Geezil's naming is that although he wouldn't receive the name `Geezil' until December 31st, 1933 that isn't the first occurrence of the name in the strip. On November 11th, 1932 in a daily strip, a character comments about having done some junk hauling business with a `Mrs. Geezil'. This is a mere five days after George's anonymous strip debut in the Sunday strip. So if Segar was trying to find the perfect name for his newest creation he apparently didn't realise for 13 months that he'd had it all along.