Wonder Wart-Hog, Hog of Steel

    (Rip Off, 1995)
©1995 Gilvert Shelton and Rip Off Press, Inc.

Wonder Wart-Hog, Hog of Steel is a black-and-white alternative comic series created by Gilbert Shelton (The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers). Most of the stories begin in the apartment of Wonder Wart Hog’s alter identity, Philbert Desanex. Each issue contains two of the comedic hero’s adventures. He is extremely ugly and wears a costume with the letters, WW, on his chest. He somehow always manages to get mixed up in crazy situations, such as working on the planet Uranus for twenty dollars a day. The only problem is that a day on Uranus lasts forty years in Earth time. Another adventure finds Philbert low on cash. He devises a plan to make money by selling super-hero names and outfits to people who want them. This lasts until Philbert is confronted by dissatisfied customers like the Masked Martyr and Mildew Man.

This solo Wonder Wart Hog series premiered in 1995.
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