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H.E.R.B.I.E. the Robot.... What Was He Doing In The Fantastic Four Comic Books? We took a day off from comic book listing and blogging for the holiday yesterday. Checking our blog stats this morning, and I see that there is a new interest in our 'HERBIE' archived blog post. Not for sure why that is today, but for those that don't know about HERBIE here is part of theat archived blog post: H.E.R.B.I.E. was brought in during one of the cartoon periods of the FF on TV, (1978), when the 'powers that be' producing the cartoon thought that kids shouldn't be emulating the Human Torch, who would 'flame on' when using his superpower! Plus they couldn't get the cartoon rights to the Torch, who had been optioned out separately... In the comics, H.E.R.B.I.E. was created by Mister Fantastic and Master Xar of an alien race. They hoped that the robot would aid their search for Galactus.As could only happen in comics, what neither of the creators realized, was that Dr Sun, an imprisoned enemy of Master Xar, was able to escape by jumping from an alien computer to H.E.R.B.I.E.'s robot body. Thus, this robot was Dr Sun's sleeper agent, whom he could control whenever he wished. The scene on the comic book cover to the top right shows Mister Fantastic and the Thing confronting H.E.R.B.I.E. who was under Doctor Sun's control. After besting them and the other two members of the FF, Dr Sun then abandoned H.E.R.B.I.E.'s body and transferred his consciousness into the Baxter Building's main computer, which would allow him to control the entire building! However, Mister Fantastic broke free and was able to lock Dr. Sun away from the rest of the computer system. It was then H.E.R.B.I.E., now himself again, realized that Dr. Sun could always simply return to his robot body. Not wanting the villain to return again like so many other comic book villains, the robot heroically threw himself into the computer, destroying it, Dr. Sun, and himself!!! What a story!! If there is a major reason why H.E.R.B.I.E. is drawing several blog readers today, I'll update this blog post later... BTW, We don't show TV Cartoon Show episodes here, although we do have an occasional Cartoon Film or Cartoon TV Show DVD for sale here, but we do have an ongoing Comic Con and Pop Culture convention here at Make It So Marketing, what with our daily blog posts and listings of items for sale!Thanks for reading this post today and please join us again for more! Michael |  H.E.R.B.I.E. stood for: Humanoid Experimental Robot B-Type Integrated Electronics...... whew, what a mouthful !!! HERBIE had the ability to connect to any computer system, electricity generators, etc. He carried lasers, and various hidden tools and features as what was needed in the cartoons, almost like Felix the Cat and his bag of tricks. The photo above shows Herbie in the comic books.
 H.E.R.B.I.E. as seen in the Fantastic Four Cartoons in a more 'cartoonish' style.
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