Popeye Statue, Crystal City, Texas

A painted Popeye, pipe raised, stands outside City Hall in Crystal City, Texas. The South Texas farm town calls itself the Spinach Capital of the World and started a spinach festival in 1936; a year later it honored the sailor with a statue, raised with the blessing of his creator while Segar was still drawing the strip. That makes Crystal City's Popeye tribute the oldest in the gallery, and an easy pairing with Chester for anyone tracing the character across the map.