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Issue Details

Issue #15
Published February 1966
Cover Price 0.12
Pages 36
Editing Richard Hughes
Notes Herbie (in tortoise shell) being spit out by dinosaur // Kurt Schaffenberger (assumed)

Cover Details

Characters Herbie Popnecker
Genre super hero; humor; satire
Pencils Kurt Schaffenberger
Inks Kurt Schaffenberger
Notes Herbie (in tortoise shell) being spit out by dinosaur // Kurt Schaffenberger (assumed)

17 page Herbie story "Call Me Schlemiehl!"

Characters Herbie Popnecker; Hubert Humphrey; Pincus Popnecker; Mrs. Popnecker
Synopsis Herbie meets Pud Bimbo, Dad's old roommate at Peepwhistle Prep, who reveals that Herbie's father was once a little fat nothing like Herbie. Dad challenges Pud, and the two compete at athletics (Dad, with Herbie's help).
Genre super hero; humor; satire
Script Richard Hughes (as Shane O'Shea)
Pencils Ogden Whitney
Inks Ogden Whitney
Letters Ed Hamilton
Notes Schlemiel is German for "fool". Schlemiel or shlemiel is Yiddish for a dolt who is a habitual bungler, an inept, clumsy person.

9 page Herbie story "Herbie Goes Nap-Happy!"

Characters Herbie Popnecker; Professor Flipdome; Pincus Popnecker; Mrs. Popnecker; Josephine, Napoleon Bonaparte
Synopsis Herbie, a mortal, is not supposed to be getting magical lollipops from the Unknown. To get rid of him, Herbie is slipped a time lollipop that does not require a grandfather clock, but unknown to him, is a one-way time lollipop. When Herbie goes back in time to Napoleon, it takes some ingenuity and patience to get back.
Genre super hero; humor; satire
Script Richard Hughes (as Shane O'Shea)
Pencils Ogden Whitney
Inks Ogden Whitney
Letters Ed Hamilton
Reprinted in Time Traveler Herbie (Avalon Communications December 1998)