Prior to his battles with Katnip, Herman teamed up in several cartoons with the henpecked rooster Henry. Henry's nemesis is his domineering wife, Bertha (aka "Chicken Pie"), who makes him do all the work around the house, even saying that if she catches Henry loafing again, "I'll clip your wings and chop you down to a croquette!" Bertha is deathly afraid of mice, however: always "bawking" in shock every time Herman scares her. With Herman's help, Henry tries to manipulate Bertha into treating him more fairly ("Hey! Listen, you old hen! From now on, I'll do no more work!"). The title cards for the team-up shorts read "Featuring Herman and Henry"; the first such short was Henpecked Rooster (1944), and the last Sudden Fried Chicken (1946), in which Bertha beats the rooster hard enough to hospitalize him.
Under the new name "Hector," the rooster was featured in Dell Publishing's Animal Comics 7-17 (1944-45), with Herman as ongoing co-star and artist Walt Kelly (Pogo) drawing several of the later stories. Interestingly, in Sudden Fried Chicken the cartoons also adopted the name Hector, though the "Henry" title card accidentally (?) remained unchanged.
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