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Issue Details

Issue #17
Published April-May 1966
Cover Price 0.12
Pages 36
Editing Richard Hughes
Notes Indian medicine man doing rain dance to drench Herbie in pilgrim's outfit // Kurt Schaffenberger (assumed)

Cover Details

Characters Herbie Popnecker
Genre super hero; humor; satire
Pencils Kurt Schaffenberger
Inks Kurt Schaffenberger
Notes Indian medicine man doing rain dance to drench Herbie in pilgrim's outfit // Kurt Schaffenberger (assumed)

13 page Herbie story "Popnecker the Pilgrim!"

Characters Herbie Popnecker; Pincus Popnecker; Mrs. Popnecker; Myles Standish; John Alden; Priscilla Mullins
Synopsis Herbie's family owes money dating back to the Mayflower. Herbie travels back in time to set things straight.
Genre super hero; humor; satire
Script Richard Hughes (as Shane O'Shea)
Pencils Ogden Whitney
Inks Ogden Whitney
Letters Ed Hamilton
Reprinted in Herbie #2 (A-plus February 1990)

12 page Herbie story "Herbie and the Spirits!"

Characters Herbie Popnecker; Mrs.Popnecker; Pincus Popnecker
Synopsis Herbie is the new kid in school. He proves his bravery by going to a haunted house. Supernatural beings (a witch, a ghost, a creep, and Frankenstein) cause havoc, but prove to be no match for Herbie, his lollipops, or his magic.
Genre super hero; humor; satire
Script Richard Hughes (as Shane O'Shea)
Pencils Ogden Whitney
Inks Ogden Whitney
Letters Ed Hamilton
Notes Herbie looks and talks differently in this pre-Herbie series story.
Reprinted from Forbidden Worlds #94 (March-April 1961), with commentary