The plot revolves around Olive Oyl's infatuation with comics character Superman. Overhearing her rejection of Popeye as someone who does not measure up to this ideal, Bluto hurriedly shaves off his beard and bursts through her apartment window in a Superman costume, looking somewhat the part, and dispatches Popeye with a short but potent punch. Popeye rebounds from this blow and challenges "Superman" to prove that he is indeed the better man.