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Issue Details

Issue	#2
Published	June-July 1964
Cover Price	0.12
Pages	36
Editing	Richard Hughes
Notes	Herbie and police walking through newspaper // Ogden Whitney (signed)

Cover Details

Characters	Herbie Popnecker
Genre	super hero; humor; satire
Pencils	Ogden Whitney
Inks	Ogden Whitney
Notes	Herbie and police walking through newspaper // Ogden Whitney (signed)

12 page Herbie story "Herbie and the Purloined Pops!"

Characters	Herbie Popnecker
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.
Genre	super hero; humor; satire
Script	Richard Hughes (as Shane O'Shea)
Pencils	Ogden Whitney
Inks	Ogden Whitney
Letters	Ed Hamilton
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.

2 page story "Kitchy Witch"

Genre	horror; humor
Script	Richard Hughes (as Shane O'Shea)
Pencils	Ogden Whitney
Inks	Ogden Whitney

2 page Herbie text story "Lollipop Astronaut"

Characters	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.
Genre	super hero; humor; satire
Script	Richard E. Hughes?
Letters	typeset
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).

12 page Herbie story "What You Need Is a Girl, Herbie!"

Characters	Herbie Popnecker; Cinderella; Marie Antoinette; George Washington
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.
Genre	super hero; humor; satire
Script	Richard Hughes (as Shane O'Shea)
Pencils	Ogden Whitney
Inks	Ogden Whitney
Letters	Ed Hamilton
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.