Popeye remains the world's greatest spinach salesman nearly a century after he made his comic-strip debut on the eve of the Great Depression. The sailor man's legend is recounted every March 26 ...

Mr. Wynn, bidding by telephone, was the lone-bid winner for "Popeye," spinach included, at Sotheby's $364.4 million sale of contemporary art in New York—an auction that saw half of its pieces ...

Popeye's love of spinach is ... If the value was true, eating a generous serving of spinach would be comparable to munching on a small piece of paper clip. The story goes that cartoon creators ...