Here's a quick look at the history of Popeye. A lot of folks don't know that it was once the cleverest comic strip in the newspaper and that it had very little to do with spinach and beating up guys named Bluto or Brutus. Not that there's anything wrong with the Max Fleischer cartoons but…well, they're wonderful in their own way. Elzie Segar's original comic strip was wonderful in a different way.