For some reason, although the stores that sold comic books in my area had the DC Jerry Lewis comic, but never the Bob Hope one (nor Sugar and Spike, or Fox and Crow), so I didn’t get to experience this firsthand. But I picked up and have frequently re-read Jon Morris’ book The League of Regrettable Sidekicks, where I learned about Jutefruce and his alter ego, Super Hip!. In the section devoted to Super Hip, Morris gives as the reason for introducing the character “To keep Hope alive”. Apparently it didn’t do so. Less than a dozen issues after the character first appeared, The Adventures of Bob Hope folded.
I also looked up some of those last issues. One thing that Morris’ book didn’t mention was that at the time the story lines were heavily involved with a university sat which the professors looked like Universal Horror monsters. A few years earlier the Jerry Lewis comic was obsessed with Universal monsters, but had since ,oved on to exploiting its DC connections by having Jerry impersonating DC superheroes.