Herbie Popnecker

Herbie Popnecker
Examples of Recurring Themes

(Welcome to HerbiePopnecker.com)

Page Header, with Links to Examples and a Catalog of Stories

Herbie Comic Covers
Follow @HerbiePopnecker on Twitter, or I'll bop you
Herbie, mustachioed, winds up for a knockout punch

Herbie Popnecker Examples:
Recurring Gags:
Dad is Unobservant

Created: 2008-10-23     Updated: 2013-01-06  
Stories: 6     Examples: 7     Links: 5  

Related:

Herbie's father, Pincus Popnecker, can never see through any of Herbie's disguises, or notice when Herbie is floating in air. Dad convinces himself that he is imagining the things that he thinks he sees Herbie doing.

Index terms: disguise, dreaming, delusional, imagining, Richard E. Hughes, Ogden Whitney

Despite the obvious similarities, Dad only starts to see the resemblance when Herbie's moustache starts to come off.
Source: Herbie #1b p.6 (1964-04)
Updated: 2008-10-23
Themes Cover
Despite the obvious similarities, Dad only starts to see the resemblance when Herbie's moustache starts to come off.
Both Mom and Dad don't notice the resemblance, nor that the pop star's name is the reverse of Herbie Popnecker.
Source: Herbie #5b p.10 (1964-10)
Updated: 2008-10-23
Themes Cover
Both Mom and Dad don't notice the resemblance, nor that the pop star's name is the reverse of Herbie Popnecker.
Dad's too busy complaining to notice that Herbie is floating.
Source: Herbie #14a p.14 (1965-12)
Updated: 2008-10-23
Themes Cover
Dad's too busy complaining to notice that Herbie is floating.
Prime Example: Sort of familiar. Herbie is a master of disguise.
Source: Herbie #15a p.16 (1966-02)
Updated: 2008-10-23
Themes Cover
Prime Example : Sort of familiar.
When Dad does notice something amazing about Herbie, like that he is famous, he thinks he must be dreaming...
Source: Herbie #18b p.4 (1966-06)
Updated: 2008-10-23
Themes Cover
When Dad does notice something amazing about Herbie, like that he is famous , he thinks he must be dreaming...
...dreaming, of course...
Source: Herbie #18b p.5 (1966-06)
Updated: 2008-10-23
Themes Cover
...dreaming, of course...
By the last story, Dad is convinced he is delusional.
Source: Herbie #23a p.3 (1967-02)
Updated: 2008-10-23
Themes Cover
By the last story, Dad is convinced he is delusional.