Herbie Popnecker Examples:
Sitting

Sleeping (40 examples)
In the Hammock (14 examples)
Calm, Deadpan (29 examples)
Little Fat Nothing (49 examples)
Mom Reacting (19 examples)

Herbie often sits expressionless in a chair, with arms by his sides, doing nothing.

Sometimes he is sleeping, but never eating (except for lollipops), sometimes while his frustrated father calls him a little fat nothing and his mother defends him.

Index terms: chair, seated, inactive, seat, motionless, resting, Richard E. Hughes, Ogden Whitney

Remember that expressionless pose.

Source: Forbidden Worlds #73 p.3 (1958-12)

Updated: 2012-03-03

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Source: Forbidden Worlds #116 p.13 (1963-11)

Updated: 2012-03-03

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Source: Herbie #1a p.1 (1964-04)

Updated: 2012-03-03

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Little fat nothing.

Source: Herbie #1a p.13 (1964-04)

Updated: 2012-03-03

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Source: Herbie #1b p.1 (1964-04)

Updated: 2012-03-03

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Herbie sleeping while sitting.

Source: Herbie #1b p.2 (1964-04)

Updated: 2012-03-19

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Herbie sitting at a boxing match, expressionless.

Source: Herbie #1b p.3 (1964-04)

Updated: 2012-03-19

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Herbie sitting at a boxing match, expressionless .

Little fat nothing and Mom reacts.

Source: Herbie #1b p.12 (1964-04)

Updated: 2012-03-03

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Panting for lollipops.

Source: Herbie #2a p.3 (1964-06)

Updated: 2012-03-03

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Sitting with Grandpa.

Source: Herbie #3a p.3 (1964-08)

Updated: 2012-03-03

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Source: Herbie #3b p.2 (1964-08)

Updated: 2012-03-03

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Herbie sitting at the movie theater, expressionless.

Source: Herbie #5b p.1 (1964-10)

Updated: 2012-03-19

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Herbie sitting at the movie theater, expressionless .

Herbie's disguises are effective.

Source: Herbie #5b p.10 (1964-10)

Updated: 2012-03-03

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Flying while sitting.

Source: Herbie #7a p.5 (1965-02)

Updated: 2012-03-04

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Herbie takes a nap while sitting under Professor Flipdome's duplicator.

Source: Herbie #9a p.3 (1965-04)

Updated: 2012-03-19

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Herbie takes a nap while sitting under Professor Flipdome's duplicator.

Herbie, paying close attention, really.

Source: Herbie #10a p.1 (1965-06)

Updated: 2012-03-03

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Source: Herbie #10a p.16 (1965-06)

Updated: 2012-03-03

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Sleeping while sitting, with a lollipop in his mouth. Herbie's legs are so short that they don't dangle. All the while, Dad has one of dads ideas his ideas and Mom reacts, questioning his talents, to which Dad reacts by calling Herbie a little fat nothing;

Source: Herbie #12b p.2 (1965-09)

Updated: 2012-03-10

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