Powers
- Hypnotic eyes that can defeat opponents by staring
- Famous throughout history and able to depend on the help of others
- By talking to animals, able to gather information and use animal's abilities
- Powerful lollipops (particularly hard-to-get cinnamon) provide superhuman strength and other special abilities
- Punching, often very rapidly
- Time travel (using a special lollipop and a grandfather clock)
- Indestructibility — Herbie is often unaware he is even being attacked (at times muttering "Something...?")
- Fly, but doing so by walking upright. In addition to being able to walk on air, he can walk underwater. Herbie can also fly underground and often breaks through walls
- Invisibility — early on, Herbie could become invisible, but stopped using that power by the third Herbie issue
- Magic — visiting the Unknown, a mysterious spirit world
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