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Issue Details

Issue #10
Published June-July 1965
Cover Price 0.12
Pages 36
Editing Richard Hughes
Notes Fat Fury riding bomb // Ogden Whitney (signed)

Cover Details

Characters Herbie Popnecker (as Fat Fury)
Genre super hero; humor; satire
Pencils Ogden Whitney
Inks Ogden Whitney
Notes Fat Fury riding bomb // Ogden Whitney (signed)

16 page Herbie story "Plump Lump vs.Black Whack!"

Characters Herbie Popnecker; Pincus Popnecker; Mrs. Popnecker; Black Whack; J. Edgar Hoover; Fat Fury
Synopsis Herbie's dad has fallen on hard times, so Herbie gets him a job selling bowling balls. Problem is, the bowling balls hypnotize people into giving up their money, but not Herbie. Herbie's dad is arrested as the mastermind, but the Fat Fury clears his name by finding the real Black Whack.
Genre super hero; humor; satire
Script Richard Hughes (as Shane O'Shea)
Pencils Ogden Whitney
Inks Ogden Whitney
Letters Ed Hamilton
Notes Story: "Stranger, The Name's Shane O'Shea!" / Art: "Just Li'l Ol' Me -- Ogden Whitney!"

9 page Herbie story "Ticklepuss Rides Again!"

Characters Herbie Herbie Popnecker; Pincus Popnecker; Mrs. Popnecker; Ticklepuss
Synopsis Herbie has a nightmare of the return of Ticklepuss, his stone age female double. His dad buys a house next to an excavation that opens up an old cave with a pterodactyl and a cave girl.
Genre super hero; humor; satire
Script Richard Hughes (as Shane O'Shea)
Pencils Ogden Whitney
Inks Ogden Whitney
Letters Ed Hamilton
Notes Wotta Story! ... Shane O'Shea And What Art! ... Ogden Whitney. Ticklepuss first appeared in "A Caveman Named Herbie" in Herbie #6 (January 1965) and is one of the only repeat characters besides Herbie's immediate family.
Reprinted in Herbie #2 (Dark Horse February 1992)