Li'l Abner Dailies #2 [Second Printing]

(January 1989)

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

blank page(s) / 3 pages (report information)

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

credits, title page / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

Al Capp

Inks

Al Capp

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Li'l Abner Dailies Volume 2: 1936

Characters

Li'l Abner; Abijah Gooch

Indexer Notes

The title page spot art reprints the third panel of the 21 February 1936 comic strip reprinted on page 34.

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

credits, title page / 1 page (report information)

Letters

typeset

Indexer Notes

Colophon

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

blank page(s) / 2 pages (report information)

Nightowls in the Bullpen (Table of Contents: 5)

text article / 5 pages (report information)

Script

R. C. Harvey (credited); Milton Caniff (credited); Al Capp (credited)

Pencils

Al Capp (signed as A. G. Caplin) (drawing); Milton Caniff (signed as Milton Caniff) (drawing); ? (photographs)

Inks

Al Capp (signed as A. G. Caplin) (drawing); Milton Caniff (signed as Milton Caniff) (drawing); ? (photographs)

Letters

typeset

Genre

non-fiction

Characters

Al Capp; Milt Caniff; Mr. Gilfeather

Keywords

Artist; cartoonist; panel cartoon

Indexer Notes

Material cobbled together from the three authors. Photos of Capp, one with Milt Caniff. Cartoon of Capp by Caniff. Two panels of the "Mr. Gilfeather" feature, one by Capp dated 16 August 1932 and one by Caniff dated 23 March 1933.

1936: The Innocents Abroad and at Home (Table of Contents: 6)

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

Script

Dave Schreiner

Letters

typeset

Genre

non-fiction

Keywords

1936; Cartoonist; newspaper comic strip

Indexer Notes

Review of the strip during 1936, along with the world and national context in which it was created and to which it spoke.

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

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

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

Li'l Abner / comic story / 145 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

2 A.M. -- Pappy's wanderings lead him into Chinatown --

Genre

humor

Characters

Li'l Abner; Mammy Yokum; Pappy Yokum; Daisy Mae; Sandra Petwell; Abijah Gooch; Gat Garson; Eric Travers; Salomey

Reprints

• from Li'l Abner (United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) 1936-01-08 - 1936-12-10.

Keywords

Artist; Chinatown; Chinese-American; college; doppelganger; double; football; gangster; jealousy; mistaken identity; romance; Sino-American; stereotype; Tong; Yellow Peril

Indexer Notes

Collection of daily newspaper comic strips. Notable story arcs include: Chinese gangsters capture pappy; Eric Travers paints Daisy Mae; Li'l Abner is jealous; Gat Garson swaps places with lookalike Li'l Abner; Mammy inherits 10 million dollars, and contingent heirs try to do her in; city gal Sandra Petwell uses her panther eyes to make a play for Li'l Abner; Li'l Abner chooses Daisy Mae; a college football coach recruits Li'l Abner and Abijah Gooch.

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

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

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 10)

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

Indexer Notes

Inside back cover

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 11)

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

Pencils

Al Capp

Inks

Al Capp

Colors

Pete Poplaski (credited as Peter Poplaski)

Letters

Al Capp; typeset

Genre

humor

Characters

Li'l Abner; Mammy Yokum; Pappy Yokum; Aunt Bessie

Indexer Notes

Back cover reprints the first panel of the 28 January 1936 comic strip (with color added) that is reprinted on page 23.