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Issue Details

Issue #20
Published September 1966
Cover Price 0.12
Pages 36
Editing Richard Hughes
Notes Fat Fury flying into oven as Dracula holds door open // Kurt Schaffenberger (assumed)

Cover Details

Characters Herbie Popnecker (as Fat Fury); Dracula
Genre super hero; humor; satire
Pencils Kurt Schaffenberger
Inks Kurt Schaffenberger
Notes Fat Fury flying into oven as Dracula holds door open // Kurt Schaffenberger (assumed)

14 page Herbie story "Pass a Piece of Pizza, Please!"

Characters Herbie Popnecker; Pincus Popnecker; Grim Reaper; Dracula; Fat Fury
Synopsis On a suggestion by Herbie, the Grim Reaper sends Dracula down to Earth as a good will ambassador. After striking out with full-blooded women and having blood drawn instead of deposited at the blood bank, Dracula finds that what he really wants is pizza (although his staff prefer bagels). Only the Fat Fury can stop them.
Genre super hero; humor; satire
Script Richard Hughes (as Shane O'Shea)
Pencils Ogden Whitney
Inks Ogden Whitney
Letters Ed Hamilton
Notes Story: Masterpiece by Shane O'Shea! Art: Stroke of Genius by Ogden Whitney!

12 page Herbie story "Adventure at the Center of the Earth!"

Characters Herbie Popnecker; Pincus Popnecker; Mrs. Popnecker; Professor Flipdome; Satan
Synopsis Herbie's teacher Dr. Plumduffle is in danger of being forced to retire because he can't handle Butch Nelson. Herbie goes with his neighbor, Professor Flipdome, to the center of the earth in the professor's Squirm-Worm. After some misdirections, including Hades, they make it to the center where they find that there is an exact fire-breathing duplicate for everyone on the surface. Herbie returns with Dr. Plumduffle's duplicate, who teaches Butch Nelson a lesson.
Genre super hero; humor; satire
Script Richard Hughes (as Shane O'Shea)
Pencils Ogden Whitney
Inks Ogden Whitney
Letters Ed Hamilton
Notes Story: You were expecting Hemingway? Art: Rembrandt it ain't!
Reprinted in Herbie #5 (A-plus May 1991)