The Quarter Bin, home of forgotten and old comics, has an interesting article on DC Comics sneaky attempt to show a fight between Superman and Popeye the Sailor.
Even in an age when comics might defend its intellectual property rights against fairly minor incursions, the tendency to self-reference in the medium invited the occasional risky approach at showing well-known concepts in a context unavailable to their owners. In the much missed heyday of comics author Cary Bates, Action Comics chose to explore the premise of how Popeye would interact in the milieu of Superman’s Metropolis.
