Toughest Popeye can beat without spinach?

Who's the most powerful in Marvel or DC Popeye can beat without his spinach? can he beat anyone above street level, he has done some superhuman things before without spinach.

Steamboat.

Originally posted by StiltmanFTW
Steamboat.

And Whitewash Jones.

Why is Popeye getting all of this love? Mighty Mouse was actually the most powerful toon after Superman of those days.

Mighty Mouse The New Adventures by the Ren and Stimpy guys was gold.

They did a Death Battle with Popeye against Saitama, I was the only one who posted for that matchup as I had it on my mind for awhile, so guess you can thank me for that one.

It was everything I hoped for.

Originally posted by Stoic
Why is Popeye getting all of this love? Mighty Mouse was actually the most powerful toon after Superman of those days.

Originally posted by darthgoober
Whoa whoa whoa... What has MM that puts him definitely ahead of Popeye in regards to raw power? I'm a fan of the Mouse, but to me Popeye seemed to straight up break reality with his strength far more. I mean virtually every episode of Popeye ended with him racking up like a dozen reality breaks after his herbal supplement

I'm old enough to have watched the vast majority of the original cartoons as a child, and Mighty Mouse would have never been stumped by Bluto to the point that he ever needed his magical can of spinach to pick him up. He'd just punch him into another state.

Mighty Mouse shared in most of the accolades that Superman did back then, he was just in mouse form. They even did the more powerful than a locomotive and able to leap tall buildings, etc. Speed wise, Popeye moved quite a bit slower.