- Pencils
- Al Capp
- Inks
- Al Capp
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Li'l Abner Dailies Volume Six: 1940
- Characters
- Li'l Abner; Daisy Mae
Title page, front matter. The first panel of the first comic strip on page 94 is reprinted oversize.
- Pencils
- Al Capp
- Inks
- Al Capp
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Li'l Abner
Illustration begins on facing front matter page.
- Pencils
- Al Capp; ? (photograph)
- Inks
- Al Capp; ? (photograph)
- Letters
- Al Capp; typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Lobby card for the 1940 Li'l Abner movie incorporated Al Capp's art with pictures of the leads, Granville Owen and Martha O'Driscoll
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Li'l Abner; Mammy Yokum; Pappy Yokum; Daisy Mae; Li'l Abner (photo of Granville Owen); Daisy Mae (photo of Martha O'Driscoll)
Movies
- Script
- Michael H. Price; George E. Turner
- Pencils
- ? (photograph)
- Inks
- ? (photograph)
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- non-fiction
- Characters
- Li'l Abner (photo of Granville Owen); Mammy Yokum (photo of Mona Ray); Pappy Yokum (photo of Johnnie Morris); Hairless Joe (photo of Bud Jamison); Lonesome Polecat (photo of Buster Keaton); Earthquake McGoon (photo of Charles Post [Man Montain Dean]); Sheriff (photo of Lucien Littlefield); Hannibal Hoops (photo of Doodles Weaver); Daisy Mae (photo of Martha O'Driscoll)
- Keywords
- Hillbilly; hillbilly; movies; Sadie Hawkins Day
Discussion of the 1940 film Li'l Abner and its creation. Includes eight publicity stills. Includes two sidebars: "Almost a Lost Film" and "The Players." Article states that Capp modeled Earthquake McGoon on Charles Post [Man Mountain Dean], who plays Earthquake McGoon in the film.
- Script
- Dave Schreiner (credited)
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- non-fiction
- Keywords
- 1940
Review of the year in the country and the strip.
- Pencils
- Al Capp
- Inks
- Al Capp
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Li'l Abner; Mammy Yokum
- Script
- Al Capp (credited)
- Pencils
- Al Capp (credited)
- Inks
- Al Capp (credited)
- Letters
- Al Capp (credited)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- And if you cheap crooks ever try your rackets in this town again -- I won't bother to protect you from the tar-and-feathers mob!
- Genre
- humor; satire-parody
- Characters
- Li'l Abner; Mammy Yokum; Pappy Yokum; Daisy Mae; Salomey; Fantastic Brown; James Tobin (cameo); Aunt Bessie; Basil Bassoon; Lucretia Revel; "Pants" Mockby; "Rotten Joe" Rattigan; Young Eddie McSkonk; James Farley (cameo); Widder Wilecat; Gat Garson; detective; Adam Lazonga; gas station owner; Queenie; governor; Fruitful McGulp; Frightful McGulp; Marryin' Sam; Marryin' Dan; Charlie Chitlins; Clark Gable (cameo); Vivien Leigh (cameo)
- Reprints
- from Li'l Abner dailies (United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) 1939-12-18 - 1940-12-17.
- Keywords
- Blood transfusion; Boston; cross-dressing; doppelganger; double; drag; hillbillies; hillbilly; lookalike; mail; Massachusetts; mistaken identity; New York City; orange; post office; Sadie Hawkins Day; transvestite; Washington DC
Compilation of daily newspaper comic strips running from mid-December 1939 through December 17, 1940. Notable story arcs include: Dogpatchers mortgage their town; the Yokums go to Boston to pick oranges; Abner saves Aunt Bessie from an unsuitable suitor, then bankrupts her, then restores her fortune; Lucretia Revel tries to disfigure Daisy Mae; con men turn Daisy Mae into a hit radio singer, the Frail of the Lonesome Pine; Gat Garson tries to escape prison, disguised as Li'l Abner; Li'l Abner narrowly escapes marrying Widder Wilecat; Pappy Yokum helps save an innocent man; Adam Lazonga teaches Li'l Abner how to woo, Dogpatch Style; Abner escapes, in drag; Li'l Abner and Marryin' Sam both escape being caught on Sadie Hawkins Day. James Tobin was mayor of Boston; Jim Farley was postmaster general. Rotten Joe Rattigan is drawn to resemble comedian Robert Woolsey.
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Al Capp (art); ? (photograph)
- Inks
- Al Capp (art); ? (photograph)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Li'l Abner; Li'l Abner (photo of Granville Owen); Daisy Mae; Daisy Mae (photo of Martha O'Driscoll); Mammy Yokum; Mammy Yokum (photo of Mona Ray); Pappy Yokum; Pappy Yokum (photo of Johnnie Morris); Salomey
- Keywords
- Movies
Movie poster and lobby card -- both with Capp art as well as photographs.