page_title: Hugo Hercules
hierarchical_section_title: Hugo Hercules
caption_attribution_description: English: Panel from the October 26, 1902 edition of the Hugo Hercules comic strip that ran from September 1902 to January 1903. By the way, if people read the bottom caption and get confused by the word "fadder", that's Chicagoan for "father". He is basically telling the suitor that the girl's father is coming so he must stop kissing.
context_page_description: Hugo Hercules is an American weekly comic strip published in the Chicago Tribune, written and drawn by Wilhelm Heinrich Detlev Körner. It ran for five months, from September 7, 1902 to January 11, 1903, totaling seventeen strips. Despite its short run, it's considered the earliest superhero fiction comic.
context_section_description: Hugo Hercules is an American weekly comic strip published in the Chicago Tribune, written and drawn by Wilhelm Heinrich Detlev Körner. It ran for five months, from September 7, 1902 to January 11, 1903, totaling seventeen strips. Despite its short run, it's considered the earliest superhero fiction comic.
caption: Hugo lifting a car.
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