He's a cartoon character that got his start on a Sunday morning comic strip around the time Little Nemo in slumberland wound down for a time...While Little Nemo was arguably among the first successful child's adventure stories to be proven lucrative (This one and the Wizard of Oz basically made it possible for everything from mickey mouse cartoons to novels like the Never Ending Story and 80's and 90's kids adventure movies.) Popeye was the first strong man, good hearted super hero who never showed despair, took it all with a smile and laid the smacketh down on foes. Outrageous feats of strength, the damsel in distress, adventures in space against alien menaces who are punched into the next dimension and magical opponents being thrown down by good ol'fashion muscles and heroic leitmotifs in music all come from Popeye. tldr; without him there'd be no Goku, Superman, Invincible, Superboy, Mister Majestic, Apollo...or any comic book heroes really. He proved it was not only...