Herbie did not punch anyone until he got his own comic. Before that, he used lollipops to bop. Sometimes, Herbie is squished by a double-fisted punch. But he can give it as good as he takes, especially in rapid flurries of powerful punches.
Herbie sometimes shows a nice windup before a punch.
Herbie sometimes requests that an adversary stick out his chin for a punch.
Index terms: hit, punch, sock, uppercut, roundhouse, flurry, windup, Richard E. Hughes, Ogden Whitney
In #12a, it's not the first time he uses Ralph Cramden's line from the Honeymooners, but it's the first time he uses it to threaten a punch. Before that, he used it in an ad in Herbie #5.
Fat Fury fights his double. POW! WAK SOK! THUD! BAM! BIFF1 Looks a little like Rock-em-Sock-em Robots. The birds have adopted the reader's point of view.