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Product Description Make way for the Fat Fury! The unlikeliest superhero of all time makes his mark in this new Dark Horse archival series. Coming from the strange, wry imaginations of classic comics scribe Richard Hughes and artist Ogden Whitney, Herbie Popnecker looks like a plump lump, but with his collection of supernatural lollipops, there is pretty much nothing that he can't do. Herbie Archives Volume 1 collects the earliest appearances of Herbie, as he battles monsters, bends time and space, and gets the better of Fidel Castro! Herbie is a delightfully weird, all-ages barrel of laughs! From Publishers Weekly Superman. Batman. The Fantastic Four. Second-stringers, the lot of them, when measured against the awesomeness that is Herbie Popnecker. Perhaps the most unlikely and bizarre superhero in the history of comics, Herbie is a little fat nothing, as described by his staggeringly disappointed father, but what his dad doesn't know is that young Herbie wields vast superpowers and saves the world on a daily basis. When not fending off extraterrestrial invasions or traveling through time and space as easily as you or I might cross the street, Herbie contends with talking animals, Frankenstein, Dracula, dinosaurs, and even Satan himself, while associating with JFK, LBJ, Queen Elizabeth II and Marie Antoinette. If all of this sounds absurd, it certainly is, and this mere description cannot do justice to the utter madness that flows from the minds of writer O'Shea and illustrator Whitney, whose straight drawing style only enhances the bullmoose strangeness. The classic stories found here, originally published mostly in the early to mid-'60s, are eagerly awaited by fans in the know, and for those previously unaware of Herbie, this collection will come as a hilarious look at what was going on elsewhere in comics during the storied Marvel Age. (Aug.) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. From Booklist Herbie Popnecker is one of comic books’ more unlikely heroes, a portly, expressionless, bespectacled youngster whose passivity leads his exasperated father to call him “a little fat nothing.” Little did his family suspect that Herbie possessed enormous (unexplained) powers. He flew, communicated with animals, turned invisible, and time-traveled—abilities augmented by his ever present lollipops, especially the hard-to-find cinnamon ones. Herbie fought monsters, went to other planets, and crossed paths with many of his era’s celebrities, from JFK and LBJ to Sonny Liston and the Beatles. The comic’s droll wit was all the more surprising coming from the third-rate American Comics Group, a publisher best known for rigorously unscary horror titles. Writer Hughes, who scripted most of ACG’s comics under a variety of pseudonyms, displayed a previously unsuspected wry humor, and Whitney’s straightforward, unadorned artwork perfectly complemented the scripts’ deadpan tone. Readers who encountered Herbie back in the 1960s have fond memories of the character, and this volume inaugurating a reprinting the series’ 10-year run ought to enlarge the cult. --Gordon Flagg
