The Dragging Lady is a character appearing only in Ocean Comics's first Popeye Special, a villainess from Popeye's youth as told in the aforementioned comic book. A fearsome Japanese crime lord, or lady, she runs things from an underground lair and embodies the mysterious, dangerous "Dragon Lady" archetype popularized in Milton Caniff's Terry and the Pirates comic strip, aside from the fact that she is morbidly obese and overbearing. During his early days in the U. S. Navy, Popeye runs afoul of the Dragging Lady when he disrupts one of her whaling operations. Afterwards, she fails repeatedly in her attempts to have the Japan-stationed sailor eliminated, even after she hires scientist O. G. Wotasnozzle to build a huge robotic fighter to face Popeye in the boxing ring.
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