Hungry for Heroes

Hungry for Heroes is a short comic featured in Nickelodeon Magazine and Comic Crazy...Take 2!. In the comic, Patrick is hungry, and SpongeBob’s Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy comic book is the only "food" nearby.

Plot

Patrick asks SpongeBob if he’s ready to go have lunch, adding that he’s hungry. However, SpongeBob is reading the latest The Adventures of Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy comic book issue, which he’s just got, and says that he has to find out what happens. The comic then shifts to the MM&BB comic, with its first panel having these words:

LAST ISSUE, WE SAW A
GIANT PIRANHA MONSTER
ABOUT TO ATTACK THE
DOMED CITY OF
ATLANTIS!

Mermaid Man uses one of his water balls on a huge monsterous piranha that is attacking Atlantis, stating it will "give him something to think about." However, Barnacle Boy soon tells Mermaid Man that his water ball "gave him something to think about, all right... us!" They begin to swim, but the piranha is faster than them, as Barnacle Boy points out. Mermaid Man shouts "Don’t look back!" before the piranha prepares to eat him. However, a majority of the next panel is missing; Patrick had eaten SpongeBob’s comic book. SpongeBob runs to the Bikini Bottom Hospital with Patrick, stating that he’s got to find out what happened. At the hospital, SpongeBob tells Patrick to move his spleen, but Patrick only shouts "I’m trying!" Dr. Gill Gilliam cameos in the final panel.

Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy

Episodes of SpongeBob: I • II • III • IV • V • VI: The Motion Picture • Night Light • Mermaid Man vs. SpongeBob • The Card • Ditchin’ • Shuffleboarding • SpongeBob’s Last Stand (non-speaking cameos) • Back to the Past • The Bad Guy Club for Villains • Mermaid Man Begins • Super Evil Aquatic Villain Team Up is Go! • Patrick-Man! • Mermaid Pants • Man Ray Returns • Appointment TV • Dirty Bubble Returns • Captain Pipsqueak • The Dirty Bubble Bass (Miniseries of episodes) Episodes of Kamp Koral: Mermaid Men and Barnacle Boys Episodes of TPSS: X Marks the Pot • Super Sitters Shorts: Back to the Past Shorts Characters: Dirty Bubble • Man Ray • Barnacle Man • Atomic Flounder • The Moth • Kelp Thing • Reflecto • Sinister Slug • Jumbo Shrimp • Robot Mantis • Every Villain Is Lemons • The Chief • Super Acquaintances • The Quickster • Elastic Waistband • Captain Magma • Miss Appear • Notodoris • Prawn Places: Mermalair • Shady Shoals • Hotel Evil • Locker of Memories • Time Machine Nickelodeon Magazine Comics: Mermaid Man Cleans Up • Hungry for Heroes The Adventures of Man Sponge and Boy Patrick Books: Goodness, Man Ray! • What Were You Shrinking? • E.V.I.L. vs. the I.J.L.S.A. Music: The Lineman • Mermaidman and Barnacle Boy Action Theme • The Adventures of Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy Theme Song Vehicles: Invisible Boatmobile Other: The Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy Book • Time Machine • Fiber • Tickle Belt • Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy Fan Club • Magic Claw • Man Ray’s Power Glove • Mermerang • Dirty Bubble’s Bubble Launcher • Mermaid Man’s Belt • Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy Bran Flakes • Breakfast Bites • Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy Paddleball Set • Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy Trading Card No. 54 • The Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy Movie (Transcript) • Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy Video • Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy Fridge Magnet • Orb of Confusion • Mermaid Man Watch • Mermaid Man-a-Thon