Summary: Herbie's father thinks his son will never amount to anything or do anything. Herbie goes to the zoo where he takes on a tiger. Then, he saves Senator Stevens who is lost at sea. Finally, he stops an alien invasion.

Notes: This story is the first appearance of Herbie and features his peculiar way of flying and his ability to talk to animals and aliens. Herbie looks and talks differently in this pre-Herbie series story. Herbie's pants are a slightly different blue than the rest of the Herbie stories. Corrected in reprint in #23b.

Summary: Herbie is the new kid in school. He proves his bravery by going to a haunted house. Supernatural beings (a witch, a ghost, a creep, and Frankenstein) cause havoc, but prove to be no match for Herbie, his lollipops, or his magic.

Notes: Herbie looks and talks differently in this pre-Herbie series story. In this story, Herbie's pants are brown; in all other original stories, they were blue. Corrected in reprint in #17b.

Notes: This is a science fiction story in which Herbie makes a brief appearance as a boy scout. He is not in character and has no special powers. The story is credited to Shane O'Shea (Richard E. Hughes) and art to Ogden Whitney, both of whom are pictured by their names on the splash page. Since Hughes wrote all ACG stories, pictures of any pseudonyms were made up, but the drawing of Whitney is thought to be accurate.

Summary: Aliens from space have stolen Earth's entire supply of Sneddiger's Salad Oil, and Herbie's mother needs a bottle.

Notes: Noted as one of Editor's top 20 stories in Forbidden Worlds #114 (September 1963, before the Herbie series started).

Summary: JFK and Adlai Stevenson need Herbie's help in Africa. Jackie Kennedy swoons as Herbie visits the Whitehouse. In the African province of Meranga, Herbie faces the god, Karod, who Herbie defeats by summoning the animals of the jungle.

Summary: Satan is getting fewer souls every year so he boasts that he will deliver a randomly chosen one: Herbie's. Herbie agrees to a deal with the Devil to help his dad, and after consultation on contracts, Herbie reluctantly agrees to go to Hades. Hades would never be the same!

Notes: On page 2, Satan chooses a soul by throwing a dart at a map. The map implies that Herbie lives in the midwest USA, in Nebraska or Kansas. On page 10, Herbie's stare melts Frankenstein and Dracula, during which the two plead for help; their words are too small for the balloons and in a different lettering style, suggesting that different words were changed at the last minute.

Summary: President Johnson needs Herbie's help to beat Russia into space. Herbie goes back in time to Medieval England. He gets into a magic contest with Merlin the Magician before pursuing his real goal of bringing back the base for a miraculous rocket fuel: dragon's tears.

Notes: First story in which Herbie travels in time.

Summary: Herbie's family goes to Florida to see Sonny Liston box. Herbie ends up boxing Liston to help win money to the ransom of the kidnapped head of the Cuban underground. Ultimately, Herbie has to go to Cuba to rescue the prisoner personally.

Summary: The Man in the Cloak is stealing all the lollipops so Herbie investigates. Closing in on the gangster, Herbie is mistaken for the villain and is questioned by a Senate committee that sends him to jail. To set things straight, Herbie breaks out of jail, tracks and stares down the real criminal into confessing.

Notes: On page 8, the writers for Horrible Science Fiction discuss a plot much like a typical Herbie scene. Perhaps Richard Hughes is depicted as the writer pitching the story.

Summary: Herbie decides to get a girlfriend. A beauty uses Herbie to make her boyfriend jealous. Herbie wants to impress her and goes back in time to get her a pet dinosaur, Cinderella's glass slippers, and Marie Antoinette's jewels, only to find out that he is unwanted. Fortunately, there's always lollipops.

Notes: When looking over the field, Herbie dislikes any traits like his (fat, glasses). To get Cinderella's shoes, Herbie uses a magic lollipop to enlarge a Mother Goose book that he walks into. The story contains a parody of the mirror scene from I Love Lucy with Lucy and Harpo Marx, only with Herbie and Marie Antoinette.

Summary: While visiting his grandfather (who is an older version of Herbie), Herbie hears a radio news report of a rampage by the Loch Ness Monster. Herbie walks across the Atlantic Ocean floor to meet Churchill and offer his help. Herbie visits the Unknown to find the monster's weaknesses, only to find that it's won the championship for tough monsters for 400 years. Still, it's no contest and Queen Elizabeth knights Herbie the Duke of Popnecker.

Notes: Grandpa appears in #3, #18, and #22 and is one of many characters who happen to look just like Herbie. Because Herbie has lookalike ancestors on both parents' sides, it is unknown if Grandpa is Herbie's mother's or father's father.

Summary: Herbie's father collects a fortune for the poorhouse only to have it stolen by scoundrels. Herbie saves the day.

Summary: Herbie goes back in time to get the shotgun Doc Holliday used in the Battle of the Okay Corral.

Notes: Traveling back in time, Herbie gets stuck around his house and sees himself as a baby, being adored by his parents; Herbie head looks the same, with bowl haircut, glasses, those eyes, and he is sucking on a lollipop.

Summary: Herbie's neighbor, Professor Flipdome, transports Herbie and his father to Miniturea, where everyone has a miniature twin, even Herbie.

Notes: This is the first story featuring Herbie's eccentric neighbor, Professor Flipdome. He is featured in Herbie #4, #9, and #20, makes a cameo appearance in #15, and is mentioned in #19.

Summary: At school, Herbie is assigned to report on his biggest adventure. He is then called to the United Nations by Secretary-General U Thant to stop a Communist threat to India through the Principality of Hanki-Panki. Herbie catches a rocket to China, drops worms (left over from fishing) into Mao's mouth, and uses his many abilities (including his legendary allure to women) to stop communism from getting a foothold, When he returns to his class, Herbie reports that he is too fat to have adventures.

Summary: Popcorn is making movie-goers whistle from their ears. Herbie's investigation leads him to a Beetles concert, and Herbie becomes a rock star (Eibreh Rekcenpop), who even Herbie's mother thinks is divine. Herbie finds out that a jealous man with a red nose is breaking up performances with Martin and Sinatra with special popcorn.

Notes: To look like the famous mop-tops, Herbie wears a mop-top, with a prominent metal clip. Eibreh Rekcenpop is Herbie Popnecker, backwards.

Summary: Herbie's teacher says that cavemen were stupid, but Herbie disagrees. An actor thinks cavemen had slicked-back hair and wore monocles, but Herbie thinks that is not authentic. He goes back in time to prove his point and meets Ticklepuss, a female version of Herbie. Herbie takes Ticklepuss' brother, Bumbum, back to the present and proves himself right. Herbie's teacher falls in love with Bumbum, and Herbie has a nightmare about being chased by Ticklepuss.

Notes: Ticklepuss returns in Herbie #10 (June-July 1965).

Summary: Herbie's father opens a balloon company, but his balloons do not fly. Herbie gets a job with Dr. Dimwit, who has discovered Planet Percival, where lollipops have uplifting powers.

Summary: After graduation from P.S. 45, Herbie sets his sights on his father's old school, Peepwhistle Prep. Herbie pledges his father's fraternity, Tappa Kegga Koke, and passes all the tests, but is still not admitted. With Peepwhistle Prep in financial ruin, Herbie helps them strike it rich with oil.

Notes: Page 4 contains a reference to Herbie Popneckner, an error attributed in #13 "Here's Herbie!" (letters) to "crazy mixed-up letterer Ed Hamilton". (Ed Hamilton is listed as an ACG letterer 1961-62 on p. 136 of "Forbidden Adventures" by Michael Vance.)

Summary: The Unknown is over-crowded and four inhabitants come down to Earth to haunt a mansion, just purchased by Herbie's dad. Herbie takes care of them one by one.

Summary: The giant Mr. Horrible is a one-man crime wave, leaving Senator Goldwater and President Johnson at wits end. To help out, Herbie enrolls in a superhero school to become a licensed costume hero. Herbie did not graduate, and when his father threatened to become a costume hero, Herbie created the Fat Fury. Not a licensed, graduate hero, but he'd do. He wore red flannel underwear, a blue cape, a blue mask and a plunger on his head. The Fat Fury rescues the Statue of Liberty and defeats Mr. Horrible.

Notes: Origin of the Fat Fury. Story title matches the tagline at top of Herbie comic covers.

Summary: Herbie goes back in time to settle a dispute about how the US Revolutionary War started.

Summary: Herbie's neighbor, Professor Flipdome, creates the Automatic Imitator, which creates many duplicates of Herbie. Swami O'Toole breaks out of prison and tries to use Herbie's love of lollipops against him, but Herbie's doubles come to the rescue.

Summary: Herbie's dad thinks Herbie is a great archer and enters him in the Robin Hood Tournament. Herbie goes back in time to get Robin Hood's bow.

Summary: Herbie's dad has fallen on hard times, so Herbie gets him a job selling bowling balls. Problem is, the bowling balls hypnotize people into giving up their money, but not Herbie. Herbie's dad is arrested as the mastermind, but the Fat Fury clears his name by finding the real Black Whack.

Summary: Herbie has a nightmare of the return of Ticklepuss, his stone age female double. His dad buys a house next to an excavation that opens up an old cave with a pterodactyl and a cave girl.

Notes: Ticklepuss first appeared in "A Caveman Named Herbie" in Herbie #6 (January 1965) and is one of the only repeat characters besides Herbie's immediate family.

Summary: Secret agent X-413½ has stolen the plans to the B-bomb, which gets its mighty power from beans. LBJ and Adlai Stevenson enlist the help of Herbie, who gets on the trail of Lovely Horowitz. To explain his absence, Adlai Stevenson tells Herbie's dad he will be at a camp for little fat nothings.

Notes: Includes a 4th-wall-breaking recounting of American history by Herbie's dad in which Herbie climb's into the story's thought balloon while an appreciative statue of Abraham Lincoln looks on. Possibly the best sequence in Herbie History.

Summary: Herbie goes back in time to get Christopher Columbus' autograph. Herbie learns that the world is not round, after all, but still helps Columbus discover America.

Summary: Chick Beeple's circus is being attacked by a gorilla. Herbie wants to repay an old favor and the Fat Fury is soon there to help.

Notes: Shows flashback to Herbie as a baby being given a lollipop pacifier.

Summary: Someone's stealing all the fat in town and Herbie's dad becomes a private eye to solve the crime and get the reward.

Summary: Herbie's father wants to be president of the Men's Club, and fund-raising looks like the way to get there. Herbie helps him set up a concession to sell fake pirate gold at the town charity fair, but needs to go back in time to get real gold when the fake gold does not sell.

Summary: Herbie's mom wants a new coat, but Herbie has no money. He goes up north to find a fur coat.

Notes: Technically, there are no penguins in the arctic.

Summary: Roderick Bump is an unsuccessful scientist who, after blowing up 327 homes of his parents, goes out to make his living. He creates defective superheroes: Moronman, Garbageman, Halfaman, Monkeyman, Pigman, Pizzaman, and Frogman who unleash a crime wave. Nemesis is called from the Adventures into the Unknown and Magicman from Forbidden Worlds, but they are quickly frozen solid. The Fat Fury comes to the rescue and the superheroes combine forces.

Summary: Santa is injured but Herbie comes to the rescue and delivers all the presents.

Summary: Herbie meets Pud Bimbo, Dad's old roommate at Peepwhistle Prep, who reveals that Herbie's father was once a little fat nothing like Herbie. Dad challenges Pud, and the two compete at athletics (Dad, with Herbie's help).

Notes: Schlemiel is German for "fool". Schlemiel or shlemiel is Yiddish for a dolt who is a habitual bungler, an inept, clumsy person.

Summary: Herbie, a mortal, is not supposed to be getting magical lollipops from the Unknown. To get rid of him, Herbie is slipped a time lollipop that does not require a grandfather clock, but unknown to him, it's a one-way time lollipop. When Herbie goes back in time to Napoleon, it takes some ingenuity and patience to get back.

Summary: Red China has sent a two-headed spy to destroy arsenals, steal military secrets, and worse. The Fat Fury meets his toughest opponent ever.

Notes: Story ends with note of a future story that never happened: "Oh-oh... Foo-Manchoo still lives! and he's due back in a future issue in a scream story you'll never forget!"

Summary: Hepzibah Higgins won Herbie in a raffle and intends to marry him. The skinny buck-toothed woman has big plans but Herbie is scared by her. Herbie does all he can to find an honorable way out, but it is not until she falls for another that Herbie is set free. Then, too late, Herbie finds out she is a lollipop heiress.

Summary: Herbie's family owes money dating back to the Mayflower. Herbie travels back in time to set things straight.

Summary: Herbie is the new kid in school. He proves his bravery by going to a haunted house. Supernatural beings (a witch, a ghost, a creep, and Frankenstein) cause havoc, but prove to be no match for Herbie, his lollipops, or his magic.

Notes: Herbie looks and talks differently in this reprint of a pre-Herbie series story. In the reprint, his pants are Herbie blue, not brown.

Summary: Question Mark uses machines for every type of crime, but the Fat Fury foils his efforts. After 10,416 curses, Question Mark uses his Locate Things Machine to find the Fat Fury and his Source of His Powers Machine to discover that his Destroying All Lollipops machine will disable his adversary. Then Question Mark unleashes a Fat Fury (Phony Phat Phury) robot that everyone mistakes for our hero. Without his lollipops, the Fat Fury is helpless, but for the aid of a mouse he helped early in the story.

Summary: Herbie's father feels like a failure because he can't get Herbie to lose weight. Herbie enlists the help of President Johnson and Vice President Humphrey who call his father to Washington. Herbie's father can't understand why everyone seems to know Herbie: Governor Nelson Rockefeller, President Charles de Gaulle, and Queen Elizabeth. Johnson appoints Herbie's dad Ambassador to Hongadingia, with his first big job to end a war between the Hissians and the Pigturtles. Herbie becomes skinny after he is bit by a Hissian and his father becomes fat after he is bit by a Pigturtle.

Summary: 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.

Summary: 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.

Notes: 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.

Summary: On a suggestion by Herbie, the Grim Reaper sends Dracula down to Earth as a good will ambassador. After striking out with full-blooded women and having blood drawn instead of deposited at the blood bank, Dracula finds that what he really wants is pizza (although his staff prefer bagels). Only the Fat Fury can stop them.

Summary: Herbie's teacher Dr. Plumduffle is in danger of being forced to retire because he can't handle Butch Nelson. Herbie goes with his neighbor, Professor Flipdome, to the center of the earth in the professor's Squirm-Worm. After some misdirections, including Hades, they make it to the center where they find that there is an exact fire-breathing duplicate for everyone on the surface. Herbie returns with Dr. Plumduffle's duplicate, who teaches Butch Nelson a lesson.

Summary: Herbie goes out for the Hassenpfeffer High football team, because Dad has locked up his lollipops.

Summary: Herbie's dad opens a roadside museum, but it's haunted by a Viking, Eric Shapiro. Herbie goes back in time to find out who made the Eric betray his shipmates. Herbie bops the culprit with his lollipop.

Summary: Magical Moe has arrived by bicycle from space and is wreaking havoc. When the Fat Fury tries to take him on, Magical Moe learns that he can take away the special properties of lollipops to disable the Fat Fury. Herbie goes to the Unknown with help from his animal friends and enrolls in the Academy of Magic and Hocus-Pocus. Herbie receives only half a diploma and returns to Earth where Fat Fury is half successful with his magic. Unable to stop Magical Moe, the plump lump drops in at a museum where he sees ancient lollipops, including hard-to-get cinnamon, a flavor so rare that Magical Moe had not removed its powers. Revived (even fatter and more furious than ever), the Fat Fury allega-poops it to Magical Moe.

Summary: Noodleman, Squarehead, and the Sheik invade a European country and Herbie is sent to defend it. After Herbie saves Ruritania, its Queen tricks Herbie into signing a marriage contract. Herbie tries everything to make himself unattractive, but it is only a new suitor who lets Herbie off the hook.

Summary: Herbie receives some odd lollipops and his father tries one, only to be motivated to take away all Herbie's lollipops. Herbie escapes with his lollipop cabinet and hides in a bear cage at the zoo. The next day, the bear's miserable because bears are portrayed negatively. Herbie uses magic to allega-poop himself into a story book, but finds that bears deserve their image. He goes back in time to set up some positive images.

Notes: Last Herbie story by Hughes and Whitney.

Summary: Herbie's father thinks his son will never amount to anything or do anything. Herbie goes to the zoo where he takes on a tiger. Then, he saves Senator Stevens who is lost at sea. Finally, he stops an alien invasion.

Notes: This story is the first appearance of Herbie and features his peculiar way of flying and his ability to talk to animals and aliens. Herbie looks and talks differently in this pre-Herbie series story.

Summary: Mom takes on a career in television commercials and is sorely missed.

Notes: Colors different from original series. Herbie wears purple pants. Dad calls Herbie 'fat little nothing' instead of 'little fat nothing'.

Summary: Herbie and the Flaming Carrot go back in time to find out who wrote Shakespeare's plays and sonnets. Shakespeare turns out to be an aerobics instructor who goes by the name "Billy Bob" and who has come up with the ideas for Mr. Ed, Gilligan's Island, and Batman. Someone must have helped him write his masterpieces.

Notes: A two-part story.

Summary: Herbie's dad decides that Herbie should continue the family's hockey tradition. Herbie starts poorly, but helps his team win.

Notes: In a letter from the editor, Rob Brown, this story is described as being done by Roger Broughton and Dan and David Day several years earlier for the unpublished Herbie #3 from Dark Horse. In this story, Herbie's dad drives a Volkswagen Beetle, a possible reference to Disney's Herbie, the Love Bug. Herbie does not abbreviate his speech in this story, shows fear, and is called "fat little nothing" by his father instead of "little fat nothing". Herbie talks to a mouse in this story, but when he skates, he skates on ice instead of on air as in #14's "Herbie Claus is Coming to Town!"