You may have noticed that Popeye the Sailor Man has been in the news now that the character, or at least his earliest comic ...

A couple of photos reveal Popeye, bearing muscles just as comically big as the cartoon character ... he'll first get himself fired up by eating canned spinach before carrying out kills.

Popeye's popularity fueled a 33% increase in spinach consumption in the United States by 1931, according to King Features ...