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Issue Details

Issue #19
Published August 1966
Cover Price 0.12
Pages 36
Editing Richard Hughes
Notes Herbie, Cleopatra, and mummy // Kurt Schaffenberger (assumed). Letter from Marvin Wolfman, second prize winner in the story contest, reported in Herbie #12.

Cover Details

Characters Herbie Popnecker; Cleopatra
Genre super hero; humor; satire
Pencils Kurt Schaffenberger
Inks Kurt Schaffenberger
Notes Herbie, Cleopatra, and mummy // Kurt Schaffenberger (assumed). Letter from Marvin Wolfman, second prize winner in the story contest, reported in Herbie #12.

14 page Herbie story "Race through Space!"

Characters Herbie Popnecker; Pincus Popnecker
Synopsis To win money to build a swimming pool, Herbie gets his father to enter a space race. When Herbie finds that his neighbor, Professor Flipdome is away, he builds his own rocket and gets his animal friends to power it. Herbie races Black Bumby, who does his best to stop Herbie's rocket.
Genre super hero; humor; satire
Script Richard Hughes (as Shane O'Shea)
Pencils Ogden Whitney
Inks Ogden Whitney
Letters Ed Hamilton
Notes Story: The stupendous O'Shea / Art: The miraculous Whitney
Reprinted in Herbie #6 (A-plus June 1991); in Spaced Out Herbie (Avalon Communications, 1999 series) #1

11 page Herbie story "Egyptian Conniption!"

Characters Herbie Popnecker; Pincus Popnecker; Cleopatra; Mrs. Popnecker
Synopsis Herbie's dad loves Elizabeth Taylor as Cleopatra and tells Herbie to get her. Herbie hears wrong and goes back in time to get the real Cleopatra, who falls in love with Dad.
Genre super hero; humor; satire
Script Richard Hughes (as Shane O'Shea)
Pencils Ogden Whitney
Inks Ogden Whitney
Letters Ed Hamilton
Notes Story: Shane (Frankenstein) O'Shea / Art: Ogden (Dracula) Whitney. Herbie sends Cleopatra back to her time by placing a lollipop-sucking dummy of her beloved in the time-traveling grandfather clock. Herbie never uses that clock again, but does travel in time with another clock (#21) and with a super special time lollipop that makes a propeller "sprong" out of his head (#23). The story ends with Dad winking at Herbie, which may be the most positive father-son gesture in the series.