| GENUS PEDIGREE: |
Pignose |
| KNOWN ALIASES: |
unknown |
| KNOWN RELATIVES: |
unknown |
| KNOWN PETS: |
Tagalong the canine mutt.
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| CITIZENSHIP: |
Duckburg, USA.
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| KNOWN CONFIDANTS: |
Huey, Dewey & Louie.
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| KNOWN RIVALS: |
unknown
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| PARAPHERNALIA: |
unknown |
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| 1st PRINT APPEARANCE: |
"Walt Disney's Comics & Stories" #43 in "Donald Duck: Three Dirty Little Ducks" (Apr. 1944). |
| 1st FILM APPEARANCE: |
none
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| VOICE ACTOR: |
N/A.
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| SIGNATURE: |
"Hunk-uh!."
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| BIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS: |
Herbert is a morose little pigboy who is a friend of the Nephews. He has very little to say, is not very bright, and doesn't care to take baths. He first appears in "Three Dirty Little Ducks" (WDC&S #43) when he is the object of admiration for the Nephews when they approve of his uncleanliness. However, Herbert's mother snatches him up over the fence to take him home for a bath. Donald Duck, also inflicts a bath on the boys who don't take kindly to this idea. Bolivar, the boy's pet St. Bernard, flip-flops in his loyalties. Next in "Donald Duck: Ten Cents Worth of Trouble" (WDC&S #50) the Nephews give Herbert a dime which he immediately swallows. Upon x-raying his stomach a plethora of objects are discovered and his father is said to be a trainer for "sitting hens" (how much 'training' do sitting hens need?). In "Donald Duck: The Smugsnorkle Squattie" (WDC&S #70) Herbert shows the boys his new puppy, Tagalong. Since the puppy is a mutt Donald seeks to ridicule it by comparing him to the pretentious Grand Genius III of Old Siwash the Smugsnorkle Squattie. In the end Donald appreciates Tagalong more. Herbert's most recent appearance can be found in "Donald Duck: Caught in the Cold Rush" (WDC #620, Jan. 1998) when Donald accidentally melts a frozen lake used for ice skating Herbert's mother comments to Herbert that she does not appreciate skating under water. |
| HISTORICAL FACTS: |
unknown |
| LITTLE KNOWN SECRETS: |
unknown |
| WORKING THEORIES: |
[?] Herbert might be a child of Peter & Patricia Pigg. Some possible evidence includes a segment of an early "Mickey Mouse" serial "Pluto the Pup" (July 12, 1931) when Mickey tosses a stick from his front yard for Pluto to fetch. It lands in the baby stolen that a rotund sow-woman is pushing. She is mortified when Pluto leaps in and snatches her piglet to give to Mickey. Since Percy (a.k.a. Peter) and Patricia were semi-regular "extras" in Mickey's early gag-a-day tales, there is some reason to believe this may have been Patricia with her offspring. Of course, this would mean that is tale was Herbert first appearance. However, unless a link is officially established it is only speculation. |
Herbert 