Ocean Comics is an independent American comics publisher that has released one-shots and miniseries infrequently since the 1980s. They began to publish Popeye comics in 1987 with a Popeye Special, featuring their interpretation of Popeye's birth and early career, written by Ron Fortier and drawn by Ben Dunn in a somehow realistic yet still caricatured style. They would produce a second Special in 1988 to expand the story.