After the infamous "DC Implosion" of Sept 1978, Hembeck was introduced to the comics world and became a regular feature in DC's DAILY PLANET/Direct Currents pages. I love the warm humor mixed with Silver/Bronze-age trivia and nostalgia rampant in Hembeck's strips.
As best I can recall, Hembeck's strips ran in DC house pages from Nov 1978 to August 1980.
I have a few 8 X 11" books of Hembeck strips. But honestly, it's more fun somehow a few color panels at a time than in compiled book form.
I also love Hembeck as part of many other projects, such as Fantaco's one-shot Chronicles books of the early 80's (X-MEN CHRONICLES, FF CHRONICLES, DAREDEVIL CHRONICLES, AVENGERS CHRONICLES, SPIDER-MAN CHRONICLES...) and Marvel's 1982 FANTASTIC FOUR ROAST artist-jam one-shot.
Hembeck is on the periphery, and not a contributor of major projects, but still a heck of a lot of fun to have around. I've always intended to have him re-draw a tribute cover for me, I just have to figure out which of the many classic covers out there from 70 or so years of comics history is wall-worthy of Hembeck parody.
