Olive Oyl remained a big part of the comic as ... But this strip makes it clear that Olive wasn't simply just 'Popeye's girlfriend'. She had a life before the sailor man that fans likely never ...

His credo is ‘I yam what I yam, and that’s all what I yam.’ His girlfriend is the gangly, uncoordinated Olive Oyl, for whose attention Popeye vies constantly with Bluto, his bearded, hulking rival.