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Issue: Herbie #2
Publication Date: June 1964
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Issues: #2 of 23 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagAmerican Comics Group
Brand: American Comics Group ACGView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Best Syndicated Features, Inc.
On Sale Date: 04/16/1964
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.12 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 5 (4 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Richard Hughes [as Richard E. Hughes]
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from 1964 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color
Dimensions: Standard Silver Age US
Paper Stock: Glossy cover; Newsprint interior
Binding: Saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: Was ongoing
Format Notes:  
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Ogden Whitney
Inker(s): Ogden Whitney
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, superhero
Feature(s): Herbie
Character(s): Herbie Popnecker
First Line: Mystery Man Captured By Police
Synopsis: Herbie and police walking through newspaper.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagHerbie Archives #1 published August 2008
as [untitled] [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Herbie and the Purloined Pops!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Richard Hughes [as Shane O'Shea]
Penciller(s): Ogden Whitney
Inker(s): Ogden Whitney
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Ed Hamilton
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, superhero
Feature(s): Herbie
Character(s): Herbie Popnecker; Senator McClellan; Senator Javits; The Man in the Cloak
Synopsis: The Man in the Cloak is stealing all the lollipops so Herbie investigates. Closing in on the gangster, Herbie is mistaken for the villain and is questioned by a Senate committee that sends him to jail. To set things straight, Herbie breaks out of jail, tracks down, and stares down the real criminal into confessing.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagHerbie Archives #1 published August 2008
as Herbie and the Purloined Pops! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 12
Disclose Notes: On page 8, the writers for Horrible Science Fiction discuss a plot much like a typical Herbie scene. Perhaps Richard Hughes is depicted as the writer pitching the story.
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Kitchy Witch

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Richard Hughes [as Shane O'Shea]
Penciller(s): Ogden Whitney
Inker(s): Ogden Whitney
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, humorous
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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Lollipop Astronaut

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Richard E. Hughes ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, superhero
Feature(s): Herbie
Character(s): Herbie Popnecker; Pincus Popnecker; General Merton Boop
Synopsis: Dad gets Herbie onto a mission to Planet Fink. Problem is, there are only officers and Herbie is the crew. Herbie bails out the mission over and over, but never receives credit. Herbie's father is resigned to the fact that his son is a Little Fat Nothing, and that's all he'll ever be.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Second of three text stories in Herbie comics. "Through space he trudged" is how Herbie's flying is described. (p.1, column 2, halfway down). After Herbie fights a five-mile-long serpent, it is "neatly tied up in the best Boy Scout knots that Herbie Popnecker could remember." This ties into Herbie's cameo appearance as a Boy Scout in Unknown Worlds #20 (December 1961).
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"What You Need Is a Girl, Herbie!"

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Richard Hughes [as Shane O'Shea]
Penciller(s): Ogden Whitney
Inker(s): Ogden Whitney
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Ed Hamilton
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, superhero
Feature(s): Herbie
Character(s): Herbie Popnecker; Cinderella; Marie Antoinette; George Washington; Louella; Alexander
Synopsis: Herbie decides to get a girlfriend. A beauty uses Herbie to make her boyfriend jealous. Herbie wants to impress her and goes back in time to get her a pet dinosaur, Cinderella's glass slippers, and Marie Antoinette's jewels, only to find out that he is unwanted. Fortunately, there's always lollipops.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagHerbie Archives #1 published August 2008
as "What You Need Is a Girl, Herbie!" [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 12
Disclose Notes: When looking over the field, Herbie dislikes any traits like his (fat, glasses). To get Cinderella's shoes, Herbie uses a magic lollipop to enlarge a Mother Goose book that he walks into. The story contains a parody of the mirror scene from I Love Lucy with Lucy and Harpo Marx, only with Herbie and Marie Antoinette.

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