Fat Fury Special #1

([April] 1998)

Calling All Cars! Bring in Fat Fury! (Table of Contents: 1)

Herbie / comic story / 13 pages (report information)

Script

Richard Hughes (credited as Shane O'Shea)

Pencils

Ogden Whitney

Inks

Ogden Whitney

Letters

Ed Hamilton

First Line of Dialogue or Text

There's a fella in Peru, Indiana, who only laughed 27,316 times while reading a Herbie story.

Genre

humour; satire-parody; superhero

Characters

Herbie Popnecker; Pincus Popnecker; Mrs. Popneker; Hubert Humphrey; Lyndon Johnson; Grandpa (Herbie's grandfather, speaking to Herbie from a painting)

Synopsis

Question Mark uses machines for every type of crime, but the Fat Fury foils his efforts. After 10,416 curses, Question Mark uses his Locate Things Machine to find the Fat Fury and his Source of His Powers Machine to discover that his Destroying All Lollipops machine will disable his adversary. Then Question Mark unleashes a Fat Fury (Phony Phat Phury) robot that everyone mistakes for our hero. Without his lollipops, the Fat Fury is helpless, but for the aid of a mouse he helped early in the story.

Reprints

• from Herbie (American Comics Group, 1964 series) #18 (June-July 1966)

Indexer Notes

Story: That O'Shea Brat.
Art: Mrs. Whitney's Boy Ogden.

The Hard Day of Murgatroyd Minch! (Table of Contents: 2)

Herbie / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

Richard Hughes (credited as Shane O'Shea)

Pencils

Ogden Whitney

Inks

Ogden Whitney

Letters

Ed Hamilton

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Wot's this Herbie got that I, Murgatroyd Minch, ain't got?

Genre

humour; satire-parody; superhero

Characters

Herbie Popnecker; Murgatroyd Minch

Synopsis

A skinny fan wants to be just like Herbie.

Reprints

• from Herbie (American Comics Group, 1964 series) #13 (October-November 1965)

Make Way for the Fat Fury! (Table of Contents: 3)

Herbie / comic story / 15 pages (report information)

Script

Richard Hughes (credited as Shane O'Shea)

Pencils

Ogden Whitney

Inks

Ogden Whitney

Letters

Ed Hamilton

First Line of Dialogue or Text

What this country needs is a five-cent cigar and a ten-cent hero.

Genre

humour; satire-parody; superhero

Characters

Herbie Popnecker; Fat Fury; Pincus Popnecker; Mrs. Popnecker

Synopsis

The giant Mr. Horrible is a one-man crime wave, leaving Senator Goldwater and President Johnson at wits' end. To help out, Herbie enrolls in a superhero school to become a licensed costume hero. Herbie did not graduate, and when his father threatened to become a costume hero, Herbie created the Fat Fury. Not a licensed, graduate hero, but he'd do. He wore red flannel underwear, a blue cape, a blue mask and a plunger on his head. The Fat Fury rescues the Statue of Liberty and defeats Mr. Horrible.

Reprints

• from Herbie (American Comics Group, 1964 series) #8 (March 1965)

Indexer Notes

Origin of the Fat Fury. Story title matches the tagline at top of Herbie comic covers.