One of Homer Price's adventures, "The Case of the Cosmic Comic", parodies the Superman phenomenon, with Homer and his best friend Freddy attending the local personal appearance of Freddy's favorite superhero.
James Daugherty said of Homer Price, "It is America laughing at itself with a broad and genial humanity, without bitterness or sourness or sophistication." His main job is helping out in his father's business, a motor court, where Homer also resides.
Sometimes he is also hired by his uncle to tend to the labor-saving devices in his cafe and mix doughnut batter. He does odd jobs like raking leaves, and sweeping up the diner or the nearby barber shop. He is a mild-mannered boy who enjoys fixing radios, and who somehow gets involved in a series of outrageous incidents, such as tending an inexplicably unstoppable doughnut-making machine in his uncle's diner, or caring for mystery plants that turn out to be a giant form of allergy-inducing ragweed. Homer Price was published in 1943, and Centerburg Tales in 1951. Homer Price is the central character in two children's books written and illustrated by Robert McCloskey, and title character of the first.
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