Four Color #3 - Alley Oop

(1942)

[Eeny, the Dictator] (Table of Contents: 1)

Alley Oop / comic story / 30 pages (report information)

Script

V. T. Hamlin (credited, signed)

Pencils

V. T. Hamlin (credited, signed)

Inks

V. T. Hamlin (credited, signed)

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Ho hum!

Genre

adventure; humor

Characters

Alley Oop; Foozy; King Guz; Queen Umpa; Oola; Dinny (dinosaur); Eeny

Synopsis

The women are running Moo. A stranger, Eeny from Jerooly, ingratiates herself with Queen Umpa. She plots to depose Umpa and declares herself dictator of Moo. She enlists Oop as an assistant. Oola and Foozy escape Moo with a group of resisters.

Reprints

• from Alley Oop daily (NEA [Newspaper Enterprises Association] Syndicate) 1937-12-xx – 1938-01-xx

Indexer Notes

Story begins on inside front cover in black, red, and white. Each page has an Alley Oop logo at the top.

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

Alley Oop / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

V. T. Hamlin (credited, signed)

Pencils

V. T. Hamlin (credited, signed)

Inks

V. T. Hamlin (credited, signed)

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Well, Dinny, it looks as if our little war is over!

Genre

adventure; humor

Characters

Alley Oop; Dinny (dinosaur); Oola; Foozy; Queen Umpa; Eeeny

Synopsis

Evil dictator Eeny tries to trap Oop in his cave with a landslide. Oop escapes and then rescues Foozy from "the pit."

Reprints

• from Alley Oop daily (NEA [Newspaper Enterprises Association] Syndicate) 1938-xx-xx – 1938-xx-xx

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 3)

Alley Oop / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

V. T. Hamlin (credited, signed)

Pencils

V. T. Hamlin (credited, signed)

Inks

V. T. Hamlin (credited, signed)

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Hey, you've got no time t'go chasin' now!

Genre

adventure; humor

Characters

Alley Oop; Foozy; Eeny; Queen Umpa; Dootsy Bobo; Wur; Grand Wizer; Oola; Dinny (dinosaur)

Synopsis

Foozy and Oop frighten dictator Eeny and her followers out of Moo, but three of Oop's old enemies show up. As they prepare to fight, a storm strikes, followed by an earthquake.

Reprints

• from Alley Oop daily (NEA [Newspaper Enterprises Association] Syndicate) 1938-04-07 – 1938-04-09, 1938-04-11 - 1937-04-16, 1938-04-18 - 1938-04-21

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

Alley Oop / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

V. T. Hamlin (credited, signed)

Pencils

V. T. Hamlin (credited, signed)

Inks

V. T. Hamlin (credited, signed)

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Good honk, it's still rainin'!

Genre

adventure; drama; humor

Characters

Alley Oop; Foozy; Oola; Dinny (dinosaur); Eeny; King Guz; Queen Umpa; Wur; Dootsy Bobo; Grand Wizer

Synopsis

After a flood forces all the inhabitants of Moo to higher ground, Oola leads the refugees back to Moo and Guz is crowned King again. Meanwhile, Oop and Foozy and their three enemies make a truce and are swept far away on a raft.

Reprints

• from Alley Oop daily (NEA [Newspaper Enterprises Association] Syndicate) 1938-04-xx – 1938-05-xx

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

Alley Oop / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

V. T. Hamlin (credited, signed)

Pencils

V. T. Hamlin (credited, signed)

Inks

V. T. Hamlin (credited, signed)

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Wotta mess! The only thing that looks natural is th' crown...

Genre

adventure; humor

Characters

Alley Oop; Foozy; Dinny (dinosaur); Oola; Dootsy Bobo; Wur; Grand Wizer; King Guz; Queen Umpa; Eeny

Synopsis

With Moo destroyed by the flood, King Guz decides to take the population to visit Sawalla for a while. Oola takes Dinny to go find Oop. Near the seashore, Oop and his group of castaways decide to call their new home "MooToo."

Reprints

• from Alley Oop daily (NEA [Newspaper Enterprises Association] Syndicate) 1938-05-xx – 1938-05-14, 1938-05-16

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

Alley Oop / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

V. T. Hamlin (credited, signed)

Pencils

V. T. Hamlin (credited, signed)

Inks

V. T. Hamlin (credited, signed)

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Listen to that - an' I thought we were all alone in this place!

Genre

adventure; humor

Characters

Alley Oop; Foozy; Dootsy Bobo; Wur; Grand Wizer; Eeny; King Guz; Queen Umpa

Synopsis

Ex-dictator Eeny stumbles across "MooToo" and is chased away. For revenge she paints signs welcoming all settlers into Oop's new country. King Guz and the wanderers from Moo decide that MooToo is the place they should go.

Reprints

• from Alley Oop daily (NEA [Newspaper Enterprises Association] Syndicate) 1938-05-17 – 1938-05-xx

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

Alley Oop / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

V. T. Hamlin (credited, signed)

Pencils

V. T. Hamlin (credited, signed)

Inks

V. T. Hamlin (credited, signed)

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

...yer mighty liable t'gitcher blasted head knocked off!

Genre

adventure; humor

Characters

Alley Oop; Foozy; Dootsy Bobo; Wur; Grand Wizer

Synopsis

The truce between Oop and his former enemies breaks and the latter three are banished from MooToo, leaving just Oop and Foozy. The two decide to explore the inland swamps of their land.

Reprints

• from Alley Oop daily (NEA [Newspaper Enterprises Association] Syndicate) 1938-05-xx – 1938-05-xx

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

Alley Oop / comic story / 13 pages (report information)

Script

V. T. Hamlin (credited, signed)

Pencils

V. T. Hamlin (credited, signed)

Inks

V. T. Hamlin (credited, signed)

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Oh, oh - Down, quick! S'no tellin' what it'll do...

Genre

adventure; humor

Characters

Alley Oop; Foozy; King Guz; Oola; Dinny (dinosaur); Dootsy Bobo; Wur; Grand Wizer

Synopsis

Oop and Foozy get trapped on a cliff with dinosaurs below. They have food and water and eventually scare the dinosaurs away. They are getting settled in when King Guz shows up with the entire population of Moo. Oop goes looking for Oola and Dinny, but Dootsy Bobo and Wur find her first. Oola gets saved by a unlikely hero, the Grand Wizer, and he and Oola take Dinny to find Oop and return to the new Moo.

Reprints

• from Alley Oop daily (NEA [Newspaper Enterprises Association] Syndicate) 1938-06-xx - 1938-06-18, 1938-06-20 - 1938-06-25, 1938-06-27 - 1938-07-02, 1938-07-04 - 1938-07-09, 1938-07-11 - 1938-07-16, 1938-07-18 – 1938-07-20

Indexer Notes

Story continues on inside back cover in black, red, and white and concludes on back cover in color.