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Powerhouse Pepper is a fictional
Fictional character

A character is any person, persona, identity, or entity that exists in a The arts. The process of conveying information about characters in fiction is called characterisation....
, comic-book humor character who appeared in comics published in the 1940s by Timely Comics
Timely Comics

Timely Comics is the 1940s comic book publishing company that would evolve into first Atlas Comics , and then Marvel Comics. During this era, called the Golden Age of comic books, "Timely" was the umbrella name for the comics division of pulp magazine publisher Martin Goodman , whose business strategy involved having a multitude...
, a predecessor of Marvel Comics
Marvel Comics

Marvel Comics is an American comic book and related media company owned by Marvel Publishing, Inc., a subsidiary of Marvel Entertainment, Inc. Marvel counts among as its List of Marvel Comics characters such well-known properties as Captain America, the Fantastic Four, the Hulk , Iron Man, Spider-Man, the X-Men, and many others....
. A somewhat dim-witted but decent boxer with superhuman strength who appeared in slapstick
Slapstick

Slapstick is a type of comedy involving exaggerated extreme physical violence or activities which exceed the boundaries of common sense, such as a character being hit in the face with a heavy frying pan or running into a brick wall....
 adventures, he was created and produced exclusively by cartoonist
Cartoonist

A cartoonist is a person who specializes in drawing cartoons. Traditionally much of this work was, and still is, humorous, and is intended primarily for entertainment purposes....
 Basil Wolverton
Basil Wolverton

File:Basil wolverton.jpgBasil Wolverton was an United States cartoonist, illustrator, Comic book creator and professed "Producer of Preposterous Pictures of Peculiar People who Prowl this Perplexing Planet", whose many publishers included Marvel Comics and Mad ....
, and first appeared in the humor omnibus Joker Comics #1 (April 1942).

rhouse Pepper appeared in six- to eight-page stories in Timely Comics
Timely Comics

Timely Comics is the 1940s comic book publishing company that would evolve into first Atlas Comics , and then Marvel Comics. During this era, called the Golden Age of comic books, "Timely" was the umbrella name for the comics division of pulp magazine publisher Martin Goodman , whose business strategy involved having a multitude...
' Joker Comics #1-27, 29-31 (April 1942 - May 1947, Fall 1947 - Spring 1948); Gay Comics #1, 18-22, 28-29 (March 1944, Fall 1944 - Winter 1945, Aug.-Nov. 1947); Tessie the Typist #2, 4, 7-13 (Winter 1944, Fall 1945, Fall 1946 - Dec.






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Powerhouse Pepper is a fictional
Fictional character

A character is any person, persona, identity, or entity that exists in a The arts. The process of conveying information about characters in fiction is called characterisation....
, comic-book humor character who appeared in comics published in the 1940s by Timely Comics
Timely Comics

Timely Comics is the 1940s comic book publishing company that would evolve into first Atlas Comics , and then Marvel Comics. During this era, called the Golden Age of comic books, "Timely" was the umbrella name for the comics division of pulp magazine publisher Martin Goodman , whose business strategy involved having a multitude...
, a predecessor of Marvel Comics
Marvel Comics

Marvel Comics is an American comic book and related media company owned by Marvel Publishing, Inc., a subsidiary of Marvel Entertainment, Inc. Marvel counts among as its List of Marvel Comics characters such well-known properties as Captain America, the Fantastic Four, the Hulk , Iron Man, Spider-Man, the X-Men, and many others....
. A somewhat dim-witted but decent boxer with superhuman strength who appeared in slapstick
Slapstick

Slapstick is a type of comedy involving exaggerated extreme physical violence or activities which exceed the boundaries of common sense, such as a character being hit in the face with a heavy frying pan or running into a brick wall....
 adventures, he was created and produced exclusively by cartoonist
Cartoonist

A cartoonist is a person who specializes in drawing cartoons. Traditionally much of this work was, and still is, humorous, and is intended primarily for entertainment purposes....
 Basil Wolverton
Basil Wolverton

File:Basil wolverton.jpgBasil Wolverton was an United States cartoonist, illustrator, Comic book creator and professed "Producer of Preposterous Pictures of Peculiar People who Prowl this Perplexing Planet", whose many publishers included Marvel Comics and Mad ....
, and first appeared in the humor omnibus Joker Comics #1 (April 1942).

Publication history

Powerhouse Pepper appeared in six- to eight-page stories in Timely Comics
Timely Comics

Timely Comics is the 1940s comic book publishing company that would evolve into first Atlas Comics , and then Marvel Comics. During this era, called the Golden Age of comic books, "Timely" was the umbrella name for the comics division of pulp magazine publisher Martin Goodman , whose business strategy involved having a multitude...
' Joker Comics #1-27, 29-31 (April 1942 - May 1947, Fall 1947 - Spring 1948); Gay Comics #1, 18-22, 28-29 (March 1944, Fall 1944 - Winter 1945, Aug.-Nov. 1947); Tessie the Typist #2, 4, 7-13 (Winter 1944, Fall 1945, Fall 1946 - Dec. 1947); Rusty #14 (Aug. 1947); and Millie the Model
Millie the Model

Millie the Model was Marvel Comics' longest-running humor title, first published by the company's 1940s predecessor, Timely Comics, and continuing through its 1950s forerunner, Atlas Comics , to 1970s Marvel....
 #9 (Dec. 1947), as well as in his own series.

A single issue of that solo title appeared as Powerhouse Pepper Comics #1 (Jan. 1943), featuring a slightly different character design than elsewhere. The series then went dormant for five years while the character's adventures were published in the aforementioned titles. It was revived, slightly shortened to Powerhouse Pepper, for four additional issues (#2-5, Spring - Nov. 1948). Backup features there included the humor characters Goofy Giggles, L'il Louie, Squeeky, and (in issue #2) Wolverton's detective Disk-Eyes the Dick.

Fictional character biography

A bullet-headed boxer in a striped turtleneck, he is, per comics historian Don Markstein

Reprints

Modern-day Powerhouse Pepper reprints include the eight-page story "McClaw the Outlaw", in the hardcover anthology A Smithsonian Book of Comic-Book Comics (Smithsonian Institution Press / Harry N. Abrams, 1981). Additional reprints have appeared in New Media Publishing's black-and-white magazine Golden Age of Comics #5 (Oct. 1983); publisher Kitchen Sink Press
Kitchen Sink Press

Kitchen Sink Press was a comic book publishing company founded by Denis Kitchen in 1969. Kitchen owned and operated Kitchen Sink Press until 1999....
' adult-oriented Snarf #13 (Dec. 1989); and Pure Imagination
Pure Imagination (comics)

Pure Imagination is a comic book, magazine, and comics-related book publisher run by Greg Theakston since 1975.While briefly doing some original comics in the 1990s, as well a publishing a few "girlie" magazines, its main focus has been in publishing books to preserve the great works of several comic arts....
's 1993 all-Wolverton comic-book Intense! #1-3 and The Human Powerhouse #1.

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