(1946)
- Price
- 0.00 FREE
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- [none printed]
- Editing
- ?
- Color
- color
- Dimensions
- standard Golden Age U.S.
- Paper Stock
- newsprint with glossy paper covers
- Binding
- saddle-stitched
- Publishing Format
- one-shot
Issue Notes
- Parts of this issue are reprinted:
- in Li'l Abner Dailies (Kitchen Sink Press, 1988 series) #1 (1988) [Black and white reprint of a panel depicting Catherine Capp and Al Capp working on the comic strip while their baby daughter Julie fusses.]
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Al Capp by Li'l Abner
Li'l Abner / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Li'l Abner Yokum; Mammy Yokum, Pappy Yokum; Daisy Mae Scragg; Salomey (pig)
- Keywords
- drawing board
[no title indexed]
Li'l Abner / comic story / 33 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The Studio of Al Capp ---
- Genre
- humor; advocacy; biography
- Characters
- Al Capp; Capp's father; Capp's mother; Gus (Capp's friend); Catherine Cameron Capp (Capp's wife); Julie Capp (Capp's daughter, infant); Li'l Abner Yokum; Lucifer Yokum; Mammy Yokum; Daisy Mae Scragg; Moonbeam McSwine; Cousin Happy; Salomey (pig)
- Synopsis
- When Al Capp leaves his studio, the Yokums come out of his inkwell and draw a comic strip biography of Capp in the same style as Li'l Abner. L'il Abner does the story and artwork on the biography despite distractions like Moonbean McSwine attacking Daisy Mae, and later Mammy Yokum, with an ink eraser.
- Reprints
- in Life (Time, Inc., 1936 series) #v25#20 (June 24, 1946)
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- Keywords
- amputation; artificial leg; Fourth Wall; hitchhiking; ink bottle; railroad; street car
Indexer Notes
Story begins on inside front cover in color. Story emphasizes Capp having his leg amputated after being hit by a street car and his life after that, including a sequence where Capp and his friend take a trip down South and meet a family that just coincidently looks just like the Yokums. In one panel, Capp's wife is shown helping him ink his daily strips.
Art appears to be mostly by Capp's studio, as some pages are better drawn than others. Lettering is all the same and is done by whoever was lettering the newspaper strip at that time. The story is not signed. The reprint in Life Magazine credits story, pencils, and part inking to Capp and part inking and lettering to Walter Johnson.
The comic was done for the Red Cross to be distributed to war veterans who had limbs amputated.
[no title indexed]
foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Losing a hunk of yourself isn't the best thing that can happen to you —
Indexer Notes
Inside back cover. A short hand-written message of encouragement by Capp aimed at those veterans who had lost limbs in World War II.
[Li'l Abner Collage]
Li'l Abner / illustration / 1 page
- Characters
- Li'l Abner Yokum; Mammy Yokum; Joan L. Sullivan; Daisy Mae Scagg; Lucifer Yokum
Indexer Notes
Back cover. Collage of three daily strips plus panels and characters cut from other daily strips. The full newspaper strips appear to be 1945-03-30, 1944-10-24; and 1944-02-29? Black background and yellow monochrome overlay on the art.
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Al Capp by Li'l Abner
Li'l Abner -
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["The Studio of Al Capp ---"]
Li'l Abner -
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["Losing a hunk of yourself isn't the best thing that can happen to you —"]
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[Li'l Abner Collage]
Li'l Abner
- Merlin Haas
- Donald Dale Milne
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