(February 1967)
- Volume:
- ?
- Price:
- 0.12 USD
- Pages:
- 36
- Indicia frequency:
- ?
- Indicia Publisher:
- ?
- Brand:
- ?
- Editing:
- Richard Hughes
- Format:
- Modern Comic Size; Color Covers & Interiors; Saddle Stitched
Can You Bear It?
Herbie / comic story / 17 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Richard Hughes (as Shane O'Shea)
- Pencils:
- Ogden Whitney
- Inks:
- Ogden Whitney
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- Ed Hamilton
Content Information
- Characters:
- Herbie Popnecker; Pincus Popnecker; Goldilocks; David; Goliath
- Synopsis:
- Herbie receives some odd lollipops and his father tries one, only to be motivated to take away all Herbie's lollipops. Herbie escapes with his lollipop cabinet and hides in a bear cage at the zoo. The next day, the bear's miserable because bears are portrayed negatively. Herbie uses magic to allega-poop himself into a story book, but finds that bears deserve their image. He goes back in time to set up some positive images.
Indexer Notes
Story: O'Shea? Oh, sure!
Art: Whitney? Every little bitney!
Last original Herbie story by Hughes and Whitney.
Herbie's Quiet Saturday Afternoon!
Herbie / comic story / 11 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Richard Hughes (as Shane O'Shea)
- Pencils:
- Ogden Whitney
- Inks:
- Ogden Whitney
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- Ed Hamilton
Content Information
- Genre:
- humor; satire-parody; superhero
- Characters:
- Herbie Popnecker; Pincus Popnecker; Mrs. Popnecker
- Synopsis:
- Herbie's father thinks his son will never amount to anything or do anything. Herbie goes to the zoo where he takes on a tiger. Then, he saves Senator Stevens who is lost at sea. Finally, he stops an alien invasion.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
-
from Forbidden Worlds (American Comics Group, 1951 series) #73 (December 1958) [with commentary] -
in Herbie (A-Plus Comics, 1990 series) #2 (March 1991)
-
Indexer Notes
No credits listed but frame is signed by Ogden Whitney.
This story is the first appearance of Herbie and features his peculiar way of flying and his ability to talk to animals and aliens. Herbie looks and talks differently in this pre-Herbie series story.
Editing
Table of Contents
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Herbie -
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Can You Bear It?
Herbie -
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Herbie's Quiet Saturday Afternoon!
Herbie
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