Prepare yourselves for the
unlikeliest super-hero team of all time!! (And take notes, because you'll need this later this week, he said cryptically...).
Like many publishers from the late
40s to the early
60s, American Comics Group flitted from trend to trend--westerns, crime, romance, what have you.
Their two best known and longest running series were
Adventures Into The Unknown and
Forbidden Worlds, horror/science-fiction anthology titles.
Well, when super-heroes became popular again, ACG (like many other smaller publishers) tried to hop on that
Marvel &
DC-led bandwagon, by introducing new super-heroes/cover stars in those two books. Surely, great riches awaited!!
Well, not so much.
But ACG did have one other character who dabbled in the long-underwear domain. So it was
inevitable that they would team up, right? Albeit in a fourth wall-breaking sort of way!
Yes, this was the day that
Nemesis and
Magicman met...
The Fat Fury!!
The
most requested team-up in comics history follows...
But the "
real" heroes aren't too impressed with Herbie's flying!
And when they encounter the bad guys...
After the villains' hash is settled...
And the Fat Fury returns to his home, too...
Oh,
Herbie...
From Herbie #14 (1965)