Popeye is a hot-tempered, bulge-muscled, lantern-jawed sailorman created by the late Cartoonist Elzie Crisler Segar.
Last week Popeye in the flesh (of Actor Harry Foster Welch) stalked into the Washington office of Admiral Harold Raynsford Stark, Chief of Naval Operations to the OPNAV he presented a belligerent self-portrait, to be used as official insignia for a new squadron of Navy bombers. Said the Admiral pridefully: "You have always been an inspiration to men in the Navy. . . ."
One of the few surviving comic strips that are really meant to be funny is Segar's...
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