- Pencils
- Al Capp (illustration)
- Inks
- Al Capp (illustration)
- Letters
- Al Capp (illustration); typeset
- Characters
- Moonbeam McSwine; Li'l Abner
Illustration is the second panel of the 1941-02-11 comic strip reprinted on page 38.
- Pencils
- Al Capp
- Inks
- Al Capp
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Li'l Abner Dailies Volume Seven: 1941
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Li'l Abner [the Flying Avenger]; Moonbeam McSwine; Daisy Mae; Mammy Yokum; Pappy Yokum
- Keywords
- Hillbillies; hillbilly
Artwork accommodates front matter.
- Pencils
- ? (photograph)
- Inks
- ? (photograph)
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- In 1940, members of the Capp family journeyed to California for the production of the first Li'l Abner movie.
- Characters
- Al Capp; Catherine Capp; Madeline Capp
- Keywords
- 1940; California; tourism; tourist; Yosemite
Photo of the family by their car at Wawona in Yosemite.
- Script
- Charlie Chaplin (credited as Charles Chaplin)
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- non-fiction
- Reprints
Chaplin's comments on Li'l Abner
- Pencils
- ? (photograph)
- Inks
- ? (photograph)
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- In 1941, Catherine and Al made a personal appearance at the Sadie Hawkins Day race and dance at Rock Island, NY.
- Characters
- Al Capp; Catherine Capp
- Keywords
- 1941; Rock Island; Sadie Hawkins Day
- Script
- Al Capp
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- non-fiction
- Keywords
- Movies
Capp's comments on Chaplin's artistry. Originally appeared in Theatre Arts (June, 1950)
- Pencils
- ? (photograph)
- Inks
- ? (photograph)
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- While in Hollywood during the 1940 trip, Capp met many Hollywood stars, Lucille Ball among them.
- Characters
- Al Capp; Lucille Ball
- Keywords
- Hollywood; movies
Photo is marked "HI-PUB-A100".
- Script
- Dave Schreiner
- Pencils
- Al Capp; ? (photograph)
- Inks
- Al Capp; ? (photograph)
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- non-fiction
- Characters
- Al Capp; Catherine Capp; Dorothy Lamour; Ronald Coleman; Moonbeam McSwine; Moonshine McSwine
- Keywords
- 1941; Cartoonist; Hollywood; newspaper comic strip; poor white
Discussion of the strip's development in 1941, and its context in popular culture. Three photos. One full-page illustration by Capp.
- Pencils
- Al Capp
- Inks
- Al Capp
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Mammy Yokum; Pappy Yokum
- Script
- Al Capp
- Pencils
- Al Capp
- Inks
- Al Capp
- Letters
- Al Capp
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Stop a-beatin' thet li'l mule, stranger --
- Genre
- humor; satire-parody
- Characters
- Li'l Abner [the Flying Avenger]; Mammy Yokum; Pappy Yokum; Daisy Mae; Moonshine McSwine; Moonbeam McSwine [first appearance]; Big Stanislouse; Swami Riva; Gat Garson; Mammy Garson; Pappy Garson; Salomey; Professor; Cynthia Hawkins; Eric Travers; Dorothy Lamour (cameo); Barbara Stanwyck (cameo)
- Keywords
- Blind; blood; doppelganger; double; hillbillies; hillbilly; Hollywood; impersonation; mistaken identity; newspaper comic strip; pig; radio; Sadie Hawkins Day
Compilation of daily newspaper comic strips from December 12, 1940 through December 8, 1941. Notable story arcs include: the Garsons impersonate the Yokums; Salomey predicts the future; the McSwines pursue Li'l Abner as a husband; Eric Travers loses his sight; Daisy Mae agrees to marry him, but he recovers; a professor drains Abner's rare blood; Mammy and Pappy search Manhattan for their boy; Li'l Abner portrays super-hero the Flying Avenger; Big Stanislouse believes the Flying Avenger is real; Dogpatchers send Li'l Abner to raise a thousand dollars; Li'l Abner escapes on Sadie Hawkins Day. The Flying Avenger sequence satirizes the radio show The Adventures Of Superman, which debuted the previous year.
- Pencils
- Al Capp
- Inks
- Al Capp
- Colors
- Ray Fehrenbach
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Meet Moonbeam McSwine, lovely daughter of Moonshine McSwine.
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Li'l Abner [the Flying Avenger]; Big Stanislouse
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