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June 20, 2018 at 16:17
Alan Keeling
You can’t beat those Max Fleischer Popeye the Sailor cartoons from the 1930s, they actually taught the kids of the era that spinach was good for them. The cartoons were violent in a funny kind of way, but none the less entertaining.