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border-radius:10px; -moz-border-radius:10px; -webkit-border-radius:10px; -khtml-border-radius:10px; -icab-border-radius:10px; -o-border-radius:10px;" align="center"> <b>Comic Story information</b> <table align="center" style="background:#FFFDF0; width:100%; border-radius:10px; -moz-border-radius:10px; -webkit-border-radius:10px; -khtml-border-radius:10px; -icab-border-radius:10px; -o-border-radius:10px;"> <tr> <th align="right" width="80px"> Released: </th> <td> January <a href="/wiki/2014" title="2014">2014</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th align="right" width="80px" style="border-top:1px solid #aaa;"> Comic series: </th> <td style="border-top:1px solid #aaa;"> <i><a href="/wiki/Bart_Simpson_(comic_book_series)" title="Bart Simpson (comic book series)">Bart Simpson</a></i> </td></tr> <tr> <th align="right" width="80px" style="border-top:1px solid #aaa;"> Pages: </th> <td style="border-top:1px solid #aaa;"> 13 </td></tr> <tr> <th align="right" width="80px" style="border-top:1px solid #aaa;"> Written by: </th> <td style="border-top:1px solid #aaa;"> <a href="/wiki/Ian_Boothby" title="Ian Boothby">Ian Boothby</a> </td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table><div style="position:absolute; z-index:100; right:38px; top:17%;" class="metadata" id="featured-star"><img alt="This article is written in a real-world perspective." src="https://static.simpsonswiki.com/images/thumb/7/71/Real-world.png/37px-Real-world.png" title="This article is written in a real-world perspective." width="37" height="37" srcset="https://static.simpsonswiki.com/images/7/71/Real-world.png 1.5x" /></div> <p><br /> </p><p><i><b>The Gluten, the Bread and the Hungry!</b></i> is a <i><a href="/wiki/Bart_Simpson_(comic_book_series)" title="Bart Simpson (comic book series)">Bart Simpson</a></i> story first printed in <i><a href="/wiki/Bart_Simpson_88" title="Bart Simpson 88">Bart Simpson #88</a></i>. </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Synopsis">Synopsis</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Gluten,_the_Bread_and_the_Hungry!&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Synopsis">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <dl><dd><span>"<i>Pieman and the Cupcake Kid take on a new crime team, Glutenus Maximus and his sidekick Gluten Tag, whose pastry-related misdeeds have led to a ban on all baked goods in Springfield. How will the heroic duo battle their foes without their arsenal of pies and cupcakes, and what's worse, what will Homer do without his daily dose of donuts?</i>"</span></dd></dl> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Plot">Plot</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Gluten,_the_Bread_and_the_Hungry!&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Plot">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <p><a href="/wiki/The_Leftorium" title="The Leftorium">The Leftorium</a> is robbed by two masked villains, <a href="/wiki/Glutenus_Maximus" title="Glutenus Maximus">Glutenus Maximus</a> and his sidekick, <a href="/wiki/Gluten_Tag" title="Gluten Tag">Gluten Tag</a>. They use pastries as weapons. On the news, reports tell <a href="/wiki/Clancy_Wiggum" title="Clancy Wiggum">Clancy Wiggum</a> that they have banned all bakery goods until they give up or manage to catch them. <a href="/wiki/Bart" class="mw-redirect" title="Bart">Bart</a> is upset about what he hears about the bakery, <a href="/wiki/Homer" class="mw-redirect" title="Homer">Homer</a> wonder why so his explanation is that they can not be <a href="/wiki/Pieman" class="mw-redirect" title="Pieman">Pieman</a> and <a href="/wiki/Cupcake_Kid" title="Cupcake Kid">Cupcake Kid</a> anymore. Homer asks if they are still being them and Bart says that fighting crime is the best part of his week. After Homer hears that there will be no more donuts in <a href="/wiki/Springfield" title="Springfield">Springfield</a> until the crime has ended and they decides to make a visit to the police station. Cupcake Kid and Pieman bring with them lots of pies and cup cakes to get donuts instead but it ends with the police confiscation it and have no donuts. </p><p>The next night it's the annnual celebrity hot tub mayoral fundraiser. They get a visit from the bakery crime team that pours in quick-cooking bread mix into the tubs and steal their money. <a href="/wiki/Marge" class="mw-redirect" title="Marge">Marge</a> asks Bart and Homer why they do not come up with new super hero character unless if they can be their old character anymore. This makes Bart and Homer decides to become <a href="/wiki/Captain_Quiche" title="Captain Quiche">Captain Quiche</a> and <a href="/wiki/Meatball_Boy" title="Meatball Boy">Meatball Boy</a> and they start fighting with the criminals but becomes trapped in the month-old donut cuffs but Homer eats them and gets free and defeats the criminal. The unmask them and they turn out to be <a href="/wiki/%C3%9Cter" class="mw-redirect" title="Üter">Üter</a> and his dad. They tell why they hade to become criminals, they had to close their German breakfast restaurant and had no money anymore. 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