Herman: The Fourth Treasury

Herman Treasuries #4

by Jim Unger

"The low, mean wit of Jim Unger makes Herman uncommonly hilarious."-- Chicago Tribune

Celebrate Herman 's success with The Fourth Treasury . Herman is Everyman--he's a doctor, a waiter, a loan applicant, a duck, a Hun, even a she! He's that invariably hapless goof who wears a bow tie on his head and removable feet on his legs.

Join the millions who already read Herman and become a new fan with The Fourth Treasury .

Genres: Humor, Comics, Nonfiction, Cartoon

192 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1984

About the author

James Frederick Unger was a British-born Canadian cartoonist, best known for his syndicated comic strip Herman which ran for 18 years in 600 newspapers in 25 countries.

Reviews

[David Ward]

Herman: The Fourth Treasury by Jim Unger (Andrews, McMeel & Parker Inc. 1984)(741.5971)(3631).

This is the third and final collection of Herman cartoons by Jim Unger that I was lucky enough to find for twenty-five cents each at my local used book store. Herman: The Fourth Treasury is just as funny as the others I have now read.

Reading these compilations is like panning for gold; one never knows when the next page is going to be hysterical. The occasional nugget makes reading the entire compilation worth the time and effort.

My rating: 7.25/10, finished 3/16/22 (3631).

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[Kevin Dumcum]

I probably read some of these when they were published in the newspaper, but I don’t really recall. In other words, these one-panel strips were not all that memorable at the time.

Now, 40 years after the fact, some of these strips were possibly humorous if read one per day. Reading them all at once in a treasury edition just emphasizes that the few somewhat humorous strips are overwhelmed by the many that are not at all.

[Rachel]

I really didn't find this all that funny, and I also feel like I didn't "get" some of the jokes.