

''I wrote the Homer Price stories in 1941, the same time I was finishing the (drawings) for `Ducklings`. ''Homer is a fictional character, but there are autobiographical overtones of my Ohio life, I`m afraid,'' McCloskey, now 77, said recently in an interview from his island home in Maine. Fix-it who can`t even lift his own car out of the ditch. Super Duper, all-American super hero, turns out to be fake, a red, white and blue Mr. Homer`s mother stitches up the holes and feeds SD while the car is being fixed. It is a sad revelation for poor Freddie, as Homer`s horse hauls the Ford and the cosmic hero to the local garage. The car is a mess, and SD has caught his cape in barbed wire. X, the boys are riding home on the Prices` horse-drawn wagon when SD passes them in the Ford, misses the corner and crashes off the road. Homer manages not only to solve the dilemma but he also emerges as a hero.

It won't shut off an the doughnuts keep coming and coming. Freddie and Homer go to the show.Īfter the show, in which SD vanquishes Dr. Six episodes in the life of Homer Price including one in which he and his pet skunk capture four bandits and another about a donut machine on the rampage 'First published October 1943. The Doughnuts 1963 E 28m IMDb RATING 7.8 /10 58 YOUR RATING Rate Short Adventure Family Homer is suddenly surrounded by growing stacks of doughnuts when the doughnut machine he is tending goes berserk. He arrives in a fire-engine-red `41 Ford convertible. One day, the actor who plays Super Duper makes a special appearance at the Centerburg movie theater. ''Because he`s so modest,'' Freddie explains.
