Li'l Abner Dailies #3

(1988)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 1)

blank page(s) / 1 page (report information)

Indexer Notes

Inside front cover

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2)

foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 2 pages (report information)

Pencils

Al Capp

Inks

Al Capp

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Li'l Abner Dailies Volume 3: 1937

Characters

Li'l Abner; Daisy Mae; Mammy Yokum

Indexer Notes

Title page; front matter; one panel repeated oversize from main body.

Them Thar Hillbillies: Abner, Leviticus, Snuffy -- a (Gasp!) Look at What Al Capp Unleashed (Table of Contents: 3)

text article / 5 pages (report information)

Script

Bill Blackbeard

Pencils

Mel Cummin; Fred Fox; Billy DeBeck; Jess Benton; Paul Webb; Reamer Keller; Don Dean; Ray Gotto

Inks

Mel Cummin; Fred Fox; Billy DeBeck; Jess Benton; Paul Webb; Reamer Keller; Don Dean; Ray Gotto

Letters

typeset

Genre

non-fiction

Characters

Widow Green; Lemuel Green; Guy Green; Mary Laffer; Orlando Allick; Aunt Effie; Snuffy Smith; Kennesaw; Cranberry Boggs; Ozark Ike; Dinah

Keywords

Hillbillies; hillbilly; newspaper comic strip

Indexer Notes

Bill Blackbeard reviews hillbillies in the comics, before and after the advent of Li'l Abner. Includes excerpts from Good Time Guy; Big Hearted Otis; Barney Google; Jasper Jooks; Kennesaw; Cranberry Boggs; and Ozark Ike.

1937: Sadie's First Run (Table of Contents: 4)

text article / 2 pages (report information)

Script

Dave Schreiner

Letters

typeset

Genre

non-fiction

Keywords

Great Depression

Indexer Notes

Dave Schreiner's review of 1937 in America and in the strip, including the dawn (and ensuing popularity) of Sadie Hawkins Day.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 5)

blank page(s) / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 6)

Li'l Abner / comic story / 157 pages (report information)

Script

Al Capp

Pencils

Al Capp

Inks

Al Capp

Letters

Al Capp

First Line of Dialogue or Text

The scene shifts to the Cosmopolitan Art Galleries, New York City.

Genre

humor

Characters

Li'l Abner; Mammy Yokum; Pappy Yokum; Daisy Mae; old man; Oliver; Romeo Scragg; Bet-a-Million Bashby; Marryin' Sam; Eric Travers; Sandra Petwell

Keywords

Cross-dressing; hillbillies; hillbilly; newspaper comic strip; Sadie Hawkins Day

Indexer Notes

Collection of daily newspaper comic strips from December 11, 1936 through December 10, 1937. Notable story arcs include: Li'l Abner helps protect the Kashmiri pearls; Li'l Abner attends Rosebud Seminary in drag; Daisy Mae catches Li'l Abner on Sadie Hawkins Day, but gives him up when Pappy inherits Manhattan Island, lest she be seen as a gold-digger. This is the origin story and first appearance of Sadie Hawkins Day.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 7) (Expand) /

promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 8)

blank page(s) / 1 page (report information)

Indexer Notes

Inside back cover

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 9)

illustration / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Al Capp

Inks

Al Capp

Colors

Pete Poplaski

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Introducing... Sadie Hawkins and her Day...

Characters

Sadie Hawkins; Hekzebiah Hawkins

Indexer Notes

Back cover. Design and color by Peter Poplaski, from Al Capp artwork.