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Issue: Herbie #18
Publication Date: June 1966
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Issues: #18 of 23 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagAmerican Comics Group
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: Best Syndicated Features, Inc.
On Sale Date: 04/19/1966
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.12 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 3 (2 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Richard Hughes
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from 1966 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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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Kurt Schaffenberger
Inker(s): Kurt Schaffenberger
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, superhero
Feature(s): Herbie
Character(s): Herbie Popnecker (as Fat Fury)
Synopsis: Fat Fury vs. Fat Fury robot on top of hot-air balloon.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Calling All Cars! Bring in Fat Fury!

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; Pincus Popnecker; Mrs. Popneker; Hubert Humphrey; Lyndon Johnson; Grandpa (Herbie's grandfather, speaking to Herbie from a painting); Fat Fury
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.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagFat Fury Special #1 published January 1998
as Calling All Cars! Bring in Fat Fury! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 13
Disclose Notes: Story: That O'Shea Brat.
Art: Mrs. Whitney's Boy Ogden.
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Clear the Road for Skinny!

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; Pincus Popnecker; Lyndon Johnson; Hubert Humphrey; Nelson Rockefeller; Charles de Gaulle; Queen Elizabeth II; Mrs. Popnecker
Synopsis: Herbie's father feels like a failure because he can't get Herbie to lose weight. Herbie enlists the help of President Johnson and Vice President Humphrey who call his father to Washington. Herbie's father can't understand why everyone seems to know Herbie: Governor Nelson Rockefeller, President Charles de Gaulle, and Queen Elizabeth. Johnson appoints Herbie's dad Ambassador to Hongadingia, with his first big job to end a war between the Hissians and the Pigturtles. Herbie becomes skinny after he is bit by a Hissian and his father becomes fat after he is bit by a Pigturtle.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagHerbie #4 published January 1991
as Clear the Road for Skinny! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 13
Disclose Notes: Credits are read by snake:
Read this goofy story by Shane O'Shea...
and dig the crazy Ogden Whitney pictures!

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