Herbie (1990 A-Plus) comic books
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Issue #1
$4.00
Cover by Trina Robbins. Stories by Richard Hughes, credited as Shane O'Shea and Lafcadio Lee. Art by Ogden Whitney and Chic Stone. ACG Comics reprints the classic adventures of Herbie, the American Comics Group super-hero parody, featuring a rotund, lackadaisical, lollipop-sucking nerd boy who is inexplicably all-powerful. The other kids dare Herbie to enter a haunted house, but the ghosts and monsters therein are not prepared for Herbie. Herbie goes back in time to get Christopher Columbus' autograph and accidentally helps him discover America. President Johnson seeks Herbies help to rescue the Statue of Liberty from the sinister Mr. Horrible, so he dons a costume to become the Fat Fury. Hilarious cover by Trina Robbins. Reprints from Herbie #8, 11, and 17, plus Forbidden Worlds 94 (Herbies second appearance) and a backup story from Unknown Worlds. Herbie and the Spirits; Make Way for That Fat Fury; Da Shadano; I Saw it With My Own Eyes; Christopher Columbus Popnecker! 48 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.50.
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Issue #2
$4.00
Stories by Nicola Cuti, Brad Everson and Richard Hughes (credited as Shane O'Shea and Lafcadio Lee). Art by Ogden Whitney, Lloyd Cynwald and John Byrne. ACG Comics reprints the classic adventures of Herbie, the American Comics Group super-hero parody, featuring a rotund, lackadaisical, lollipop-sucking nerd boy who is inexplicably all-powerful. In Herbies first appearance, he outwits an alien invasion and saves a shipwrecked U.S. Senator, but his parents wish he would do something with his life. Herbie goes back in time to settle an old family debt and gets involved in the US Revolutionary War. Also, a Rog 2000 story starring the robot cabbie from E-Man comics, featuring early work by John Byrne. Reprints from Herbie #8, 13, and 17, plus Forbidden Worlds 73 (Herbies first appearance) and a backup story from Adventures into the Unknown. Herbies Quiet Saturday Afternoon; Popnecker the Pilgrim; Mussel-Man; Withering Heights; George Washingtons Teeth; The Hard Day of Murgatroyd Minch; The Space Broomstick. 48 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.50.
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Issue #3
$6.00
$4.00
$2.50
Stories by Richard Hughes, credited as Shane O'Shea. Art by Ogden Whitney and Mike Suchorsky. ACG Comics reprints the classic adventures of Herbie, the American Comics Group super-hero parody, featuring a rotund, lackadaisical, lollipop-sucking nerd boy who is inexplicably all-powerful. Needing a surefire item for his fathers fund-raiser, Herbie travels back in time to claim pirate treasure; When Santa is laid up for the holidays, Herbie steps in to save Christmas in inimitable Herbie fashion. Reprints from Herbie #13, and 14, plus Forbidden Worlds 41 and a backup story from Adventures into the Unknown. Pirate Gold; Herbie Claus is Coming to Town; Cookie; Someone to Watch Over You! 48 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.50.
