Li'l Abner Dailies #14

(1992)

[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)

Li'l Abner / foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 2 pages (report information)

Pencils

Al Capp (illustrations)

Inks

Al Capp (illustrations)

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Li'l Abner Dailies Volume Fourteen: 1948

Genre

humor

Characters

Al Capp; Shmoos

Keywords

Shmoo

Indexer Notes

Title page, front matter. Spot Illustrations.

Shmoo Goes There? (Table of Contents: 3)

text article / 9 pages (report information)

Script

Harlan Ellison (credited)

Pencils

Al Capp (credited) (illustrations); ? (photograph)

Inks

Al Capp (credited) (illustrations); ? (photograph)

Letters

typeset

Genre

non-fiction

Characters

Li'l Abner; Daisy Mae; Mammy Yokum; Pappy Yokum; Al Capp; Shmoos

Reprints

• in The Short Life and Happy Times of the Shmoo (Overlook Press, 2002 series) (2002)

Keywords

Marketing tie-in; model sheet; Shmoo

Indexer Notes

Essay on the Shmoo phenomenon. Includes photos of Shmoo products; Shmoo model sheet by Al Capp; cover of Time magazine with Al Capp and Shmoos; Al Capp essay on the "real Shmoo"; ads employing the Shmoo.

Back on Uneasy Street (Table of Contents: 4)

text article / 2 pages (report information)

Script

Dave Schreiner (credited)

Pencils

Al Capp ?

Inks

Al Capp ?

Letters

typeset

Genre

non-fiction

Characters

Shmoos

Keywords

1948; Shmoo

Indexer Notes

Essay on the Shmoo, in the context of 1948.

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

Li'l Abner / comic story / 162 pages (report information)

Script

Al Capp (credited)

Pencils

Al Capp (credited)

Inks

Al Capp (credited)

Letters

Al Capp (credited)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

To the Commissioner

Genre

humor; satire-parody

Characters

Li'l Abner; Mammy Yokum; Pappy Yokum; Daisy Mae; Romeo McHaystack; Lester Gooch; Fearless Fosdick; the Chair; Granny Scragg; Nightmare Alice; Salomey; J. Roaringham Fatback; D. D. Teasdale; Wolf Gal; Cave Gal; Shmoos; Marryin' Sam

Keywords

Atomic waste; newspaper comic strip; nuclear; Oak Ridge; radiation; radioactive; radioactivity; Sadie Hawkins Day; Shmoo

Indexer Notes

Compilation of daily newspaper comic strips from December 11, 1947 to December 22, 1948. Notable story arcs include: the government dumps radioactive waste on Dogpatch, so that residents are blinded by atomic fog; a Chippendale chair carries out a series of murders, but Fearless Fosdick catches it, and the Chair gets the chair; Granny Scragg conjures Daisy Mae to forget Li'l Abner; radiation turns turnip termites even more monstrous; J. Roaringham Fatback pursues the last Hammus Alabammus (Salomey); Shmoos provide everything people need, and so destroy the world's economy which is based on scarcity and withholding; D.D. Teasdale exterminates the Shmoos, but two survive and reproduce; Marryin' Sam sells propellers to bachelors for Sadie Hawkins Day.

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

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

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

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

Indexer Notes

Inside back cover

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

illustration / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

Paul Shoul (photograph) (credited)

Inks

Paul Shoul (photograph) (credited)

Colors

Paul Shoul (photograph) (credited)

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Enter... the Shmoo...

Characters

Shmoos

Keywords

Manufacturing tie-in; Shmoo

Indexer Notes

Photo of Shmoo memorabilia from Denis Kitchen's collection.