Popeye the Sailor, America’s favourite two-fisted sea dog, turns 90 this week.
In the hands of other writers and artists like Doc Winner, Tom Sims, Bela Zaboly, Ralph Stein and Bud Sagendorf, Popeye went from strength to strength.
The mugging mariner with the corncob pipe proved a hit with readers and Hamgravy was soon ousted from Olive’s affections.
Segar died of leukaemia and liver disease in October 1938, aged just 43, but the formula was already well established.