Li'l Abner Dailies #17

(1993)

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

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

[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 Seventeen: 1951

Genre

humor

Characters

Li'l Abner; Daisy Mae; Little Turkey Wing; Burping Buffalo

Indexer Notes

Title page, front matter, spot illustrations. Title page illustration is panel two of the 17 February 1951 comic strip reprinted on page 23. The colophon page illustration is taken from panel one of the 10 October 1951 comic strip reprinted on page 124.

I Remember Monster (Table of Contents: 3)

Li'l Abner / text article / 5 pages (report information)

Script

Al Capp (credited)

Pencils

Al Capp (credited) (signed as Al Capp) (illustrations)

Inks

Al Capp (credited) (signed as Al Capp) (illustrations)

Letters

typeset

Genre

humor; non-fiction

Characters

Li'l Abner; Happy Vermin

Keywords

Cartoonist; newspaper comic strip

Indexer Notes

Al Capp's bitter memoir of working for Ham Fisher, illustrated with appropriate art from Li'l Abner. Originally published in The Atlantic. The title plays on the title of a popular radio and television series, "I Remember Mama."

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 4)

Li'l Abner / comic story / 151 pages (report information)

Script

Al Capp (credited) (signed as Al Capp)

Pencils

Al Capp (credited) (signed as Al Capp)

Inks

Al Capp (credited) (signed as Al Capp)

Letters

Al Capp (credited) (signed as Al Capp)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

??!-th' champeen o' Dogpatch!

Genre

humor; satire-parody

Characters

Li'l Abner; Mammy Yokum; Pappy Yokum; Daisy Mae; Nancy O.; Al Capp; Yancey Sweetpants; Lem Scragg; Romeo Scragg; Moonbeam McSwine; Hassan the Unspoiled; Lardwick Dreamgoat; Lance Carver M.D.; Nightmare Alice; Imogene Coma; Dan Druff; Stone-Age Gal; Burping Buffalo; Little Turkey Wing; Fearless Fosdick; the Atom Bum

Reprints

• from Li'l Abner dailies (United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) 1951-01-12 - 1951-12-29

Keywords

amnesia; Atomic radiation; college; doctor; football; hex; hillbillies; hillbilly; nuclear radiation; plastic surgery; Sadie Hawkins Day; superstition; voodoo doll; witch; wrestler; wrestling

Indexer Notes

Compilation of Li'l Abner daily newspaper comic strips from January 12, 1951 through December 29, 1951. Notable story arcs include: Li'l Abner gets tangled up with a wrestler; Nancy O. has Mammy Yokum's face, and seeks plastic surgery to get a sweeter look; Daisy Mae and Moonbeam McSwine are shipped overseas as brides for Hassan the Unspoiled; Hassan escapes to America to run a hash joint; Mammy loses her memory; Nightmare Alice hexes a handsome young doctor; Li'l Abner gets a football scholarship to Scalp U.; Li'l Abner escapes on Sadie Hawkins Day, thanks to Orson Wells; Fearless Fosdick outwits the Atom Bum. Imogene Coma's name suggests that of contemporary television star Imogene Coca.

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

Li'l Abner / illustration / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

Al Capp (credited) (signed as Al Capp)

Inks

Al Capp (credited) (signed as Al Capp)

Genre

humor

Characters

Nancy O.

Indexer Notes

Illustration of Nancy O. from the first panel of the 24 March 1951 comic strip reprinted on page 38.

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

Li'l Abner / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

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

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

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

Li'l Abner / illustration / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

Al Capp

Inks

Al Capp

Colors

Ray Fehrenbach (credited)

Letters

Al Capp; typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

I've found it!!

Genre

humor

Characters

Al Capp; Nancy O.

Indexer Notes

Back cover. Includes panel one of the 14 May 1951 comic strip reprinted on page 60 repeated oversize and in color.