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Issue: Return of Herbie #1

- Attribution History

Publication Date: January 1996

Issue #1

Detail

Issues: #1 of 1 Issue

Title:

Variant: unnamed

Rating:

Publisher: Flag

Avalon Communications

Brand: ACG - America's Comic Group

Indicia Publisher: ACG

On Sale Date: (not set)

Volume: none

Pages: 36

ISBN: none

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $2.50 USD

Indicia Frequency: none

Content Items: 4 (3 stories, 1 cover)

Editor(s): Rob Brown

Notes: Before publication, this issue was sold as "Herbie Rides Again". Cover shows "Herbie" as title, but indicia show "The Return of Herbie #1".

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: Colour Cover; Black and White Interior

Dimensions: Standard Modern Age U.S.

Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior

Binding: Saddle-Stitched

Publishing Format: One-Shot

Format Notes:

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There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted anywhere.

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2 Content Items
- Watch Your Step, Fella! [Story on Interior Page(s)]1
- 1,000 Years Ago... In 1962! [Story on Interior Page(s)]1

reprinted 2 times from Content Items in other Issues.

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Cover, Front

Original Artwork

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Title Page

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Content Items (4 total)

The Return of Herbie

Illustration on Cover, Front

Credits

Penciller(s): ?

Inker(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous, superhero

Feature(s): Herbie

Character(s): Herbie Popnecker

Synopsis: Herbie vs. hockey players. Herbie wears #99, the number worn by Wayne Gretsky on a jersey with a chess night and a Canadian maple leaf. The hockey equipment shows several major manufacturers' names: Sher-wood, Easton, Christian, Cooper.

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: ACG America's Comic Group (not the same ACG that published the original Herbie comics) and "First Issue!".

Pass the Puck, Herbie

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Roger Broughton

Penciller(s): Dan Day

Inker(s): Dan Day

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous, superhero

Feature(s): Herbie

Character(s): Herbie Popnecker; Pincus Popnecker; Mrs. Popnecker

Synopsis: Herbie's dad wants him to be a hockey player.

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 12

Notes: In a letter from the editor, Rob Brown, this story is described as being done by Roger Broughton and Dan and David Day several years earlier for the unpublished Herbie #3 from Dark Horse. In this story, Herbie's dad drives a Volkswagen Beetle, a possible reference to Disney's Herbie, the Love Bug. Herbie does not abbreviate his speech in this story, shows fear, and is called "fat little nothing" by his father instead of "little fat nothing". True to form, Herbie talks with a mouse in this story, but when he skates, he skates on ice instead of on air as in Herbie #14's "Herbie Claus is Coming to Town!" (December 1965)

Watch Your Step, Fella!

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Richard Hughes?

Penciller(s): Ogden Whitney

Inker(s): Ogden Whitney

Letterer(s): Ed Hamilton?

Editor(s): Richard Hughes (original editor)

Reprinting

From Content Item: Flag

Adventures into the Unknown #149 published June 1964
was Watch Your Step, Fella! [Story on Interior Page(s)]

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 8

Notes: Fat character in story walks on air like Herbie.

1,000 Years Ago... In 1962!

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Richard Hughes [as Shane O'Shea]

Penciller(s): Ogden Whitney

Inker(s): Ogden Whitney

Letterer(s): Ed Hamilton

Editor(s): Richard Hughes (original editor)

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Herbie Popnecker

Reprinting

From Content Item: Flag

Unknown Worlds #20 published December 1962
was 1,000 Years Ago... In 1962! [Story on Interior Page(s)]

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 14

Notes: This is a science fiction story in which Herbie makes a brief appearance as a boy scout. He is not in character and has no special powers. The story is credited to Shane O'Shea (Richard E. Hughes) and art to Ogden Whitney, both of whom are pictured by their names on the splash page.