Herbie
#1
(April-May 1964)
American Comics Group,
1964 Series
- Price
- 0.12 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly February, March, August, September; bi-monthly April-May, June-July, October-November, December-January
- On-sale Date
- 1964-02-20
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Best Syndicated Features Inc.
- Brand
-
American Comics Group ACG
- Editing
- Richard Hughes (credited as Richard E. Hughes) (editor)
Issue Notes
First comic devoted to Herbie. Masthead reads "Make Way for the Fat Fury..." and Herbie's physique is worked into the R in HERBIE. On-sale date from 1964 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
[no title indexed]
Herbie / cover / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Ogden Whitney (signed)
- Inks
- Ogden Whitney (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- What do you mean, impossible? That's Herbie!
- Genre
- humor; satire-parody; superhero
- Characters
- Herbie Popnecker; George Washington
- Synopsis
- Herbie tows George Washington and his troops across the Delaware.
- Reprints
-
in Herbie Archives (Dark Horse, 2008 series) #1 (August 2008) - in Lurid Little Nightmare Makers (Boardman Books, 2014 series) #7 - Color (December 2016), #7 - Black & White (December 2016)
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- Keywords
- United States flag
"Herbie and the Dragon's Tears!"
Herbie / comic story / 13 pages
- Script
- Richard Hughes (credited as Shane O'Shea)
- Pencils
- Ogden Whitney
- Inks
- Ogden Whitney
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Ed Hamilton
- Genre
- humor; satire-parody; superhero
- Characters
- Herbie Popnecker; Pincus Popnecker; Mrs. Popnecker; President Lyndon Johnson; Ladybird Johnson; Nikita Khrushchev; Abraham Lincoln; George Washington; King Arthur; Merlin; Sir Lancelot; Guinevere; Jimmy Durante
- Synopsis
- President Johnson needs Herbie's help to beat Russia into space. Herbie goes back in time to Medieval England. He gets into a magic contest with Merlin the Magician before pursuing his real goal of bringing back the base for a miraculous rocket fuel: dragon's tears.
- Reprints
- in Herbie Archives (Dark Horse, 2008 series) #1 (August 2008)
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Indexer Notes
First story in which Herbie travels in time.
Rocket #1352 Does Not Answer
comic story / 1 page
- Script
- Richard Hughes (credited as Shane O'Shea)
- Pencils
- Chic Stone
- Inks
- Chic Stone
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- science fiction
The Triumph of Eibreh Rekcenpop!
Herbie / text story / 2 pages
- Script
- Richard Hughes ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- humor; satire-parody; superhero
- Characters
- Herbie Popnecker; Pincus Popnecker
- Synopsis
- Eibreh Rekcenpop helps out Pincus Popnecker's favorite football team, the New York Giants, beat the Green Bay Packers 4,236 to 0.
Indexer Notes
Eibreh Rekcenpop is Herbie Popnecker, backwards. This is the first of three text stories to appear in Herbie comics.
Herbie Beards Castro!
Herbie / comic story / 12 pages
- Script
- Richard Hughes (credited as Shane O'Shea)
- Pencils
- Ogden Whitney
- Inks
- Ogden Whitney
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Ed Hamilton
- Genre
- humor; satire-parody; superhero
- Characters
- Herbie Popnecker; Pincus Popnecker; Mrs. Popnecker; Sonny Liston; Fidel Castro; Satan
- Synopsis
- Herbie's family goes to Florida to see Sonny Liston box. Herbie ends up boxing Liston to help win money for the ransom of the kidnapped head of the Cuban underground. Ultimately, Herbie has to go to Cuba to rescue the prisoner personally.
- Reprints
- in Herbie Archives (Dark Horse, 2008 series) #1 (August 2008)
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Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
["What do you mean, impossible? That's Herbie!"]
Herbie -
1.
"Herbie and the Dragon's Tears!"
Herbie -
2.
Rocket #1352 Does Not Answer
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3.
The Triumph of Eibreh Rekcenpop!
Herbie -
4.
Herbie Beards Castro!
Herbie
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- Katie
- Ray Bottorff Jr
- Steve Coates
- Clint Maxwell
- Lou Mazzella
- Mike Nielsen
- Gary Perlman
- Marco Pesce
- Per Sandell
- Claus Simonsen
- Jim Van Dore
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