Exactly. I always thought he was some sort of giant squid. Which means no skeleton but the possibility of real bad-ass calamari.
If he was some sort of cuttlefish he’d have a cuttlebone but I don’t think that would qualify as skeleton.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuttlebone]
Maybe this discussion should be continued at ‘The Octopus News Magazine Online’. Yes, that’s a thing: