For tonight's Friday Night Fights, we're proud to bring you the first and most important comic featuring the real-world heavyweight champion vs. a comic book hero...
No, not that one!! That one was merely copying this classic!
It's 1964, and world champion Sonny Liston is training for a title bought with Cuban boxer Pablo Popsicle!
Unfortunately, Pablo accidentally eats an anti-gravity lollipop, and isn't available for the bout!
Now, this is a bad thing, because:
Well, our hero can't let a counter-revolution against Castro go unfunded!
And so...
[SPOILER ALERT: That's just Herbie in a fake mustache, posing as Popsicle!
CRASH!!!
Spacebooger can't wait to dig out his old Buster Douglas vs. Jughead comic books!!
Victory in the sport of kings is from Herbie #1 (1964) by Richard Hughes (writing as Shane O'Shea) and Ogden Whitney
Now is the time for you to go and vote for my fight. Why? Look, I don't want to make Herbie angry--do YOU? So go vote!!
Poor Sonny, he never stood a... wait, is the leader of the Cuban underground called 'One Banana'?
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