a brand of spinach manufactured by Allen Canning Company of Arizona. Popeye is a comic stripcharacter created by E. C. Segar (1894–1938) in 1929. In 1933, an animated cartoon series was released starring Popeye. His enemy, Bluto, would seemingly manage to defeat him, but Popeye would always spring back to victory after eating a can of spinach. —Conquest of Chaos Approved Glossary (8.7.92)