the
lead character in a
comic strip of the same name, created by
American cartoonist
Fred Locher (1887-1943). First appearing in the 1930s, the
comic strip took Hoopee on a diverse
series of adventures which typically included such things as going to
Hollywood, being shipwrecked, discovering buried treasure, suffering from
amnesia and starting his own detective agency. Other characters in the comic included Hoopee's good-looking wife
Helen, and his hefty
mother-inlaw. In 1943 Locher was stricken with
pneumonia and died at the age of 56. The strip was continued by another but ended in the early 1950s.