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)