(1990)
- Price
- 18.95 USD; 22.75 CAD
- Pages
- 172
- On-sale Date
- 1990-11-30
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Kitchen Sink Press
- Brand
-
Tap
- ISBN
-
0-87816-079-5
- Printer
- Printed in U.S.A.
- Editing
- Dave Schreiner (credited) (editor)
Issue Notes
A hardcover edition (ISBN 0-87816-078-7) was published with a cover price of $29.95.
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Li'l Abner / cover / 1 page
Indexer Notes
Cover design and colors by Ray Fehrenbach from art by Al Capp. The image of Li'l Abner is taken from the fourth panel of the 1944-06-27 comic strip reprinted on page 99 of the book. Other images come from: the 1944-06-19 comic strip (panels one and two) and 1944-06-20 (panel two), both reprinted on page 96; 1944-06-30 (panel one), which is reprinted on page 101; and 1944-07-13 (panel three), reprinted on page 106 of the book.
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foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page
- Script
- Al Capp (illustration)
- Pencils
- Al Capp (illustration)
- Inks
- Al Capp (illustration)
- Letters
- typeset; ? (illustration)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Li'l Abner Dailies Volume Ten: 1944
- Characters
- Li'l Abner; Daisy Mae
Indexer Notes
Title page includes the first panel of the 1944-06-20 strip that is reprinted on page 96.
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Li'l Abner / illustration / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Li'l Abner
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Li'l Abner [Freddie McGurgle]; Concertino Constiato
[no title indexed]
foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Li'l Abner Dailies Volume Ten: 1944 by Al Capp is copyright 1990 by Capp Enterprises, Inc....
- Characters
- Dogpatchers
Indexer Notes
Colophon includes an illustration taken from the first panel of the 1944-10-18 comic strip reprinted on page 146.
The Strip Within a Strip
text article / 7 pages
- Script
- Max Allan Collins (credited); Al Capp (credited) (illustrations)
- Pencils
- Al Capp (illustrations); Dick Locher (credited) (illustration); Chester Gould (illustration)
- Inks
- Al Capp (illustrations); Dick Locher (credited) (illustration)
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- non-fiction
- Characters
- Li'l Abner; Fearless Fosdick; Lester Gooch; the Chair; Rhodent; Dick Tracy; Anyface; Putty Puss
- Keywords
- Crime; detective; newspaper comic strip; parody; satire
Indexer Notes
Collins (at the time the writer of Dick Tracy) comments on Al Capp's Tracy parody, Fearless Fosdick. Includes several excerpts from Tracy strips. Includes the two 1942 Li'l Abner Sunday strips in which Fosdick was introduced. Includes Wildroot Hair Tonic ad featuring Fosdick.
1944: Capp's Way
text article / 3 pages
- Script
- Dave Schreiner (credited)
- Pencils
- Al Capp (illustration); ? (photograph)
- Inks
- Al Capp (illustration); ? (photograph)
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- non-fiction
- Characters
- Frank Sinatra; Li'l Abner [Freddie McGurgle]
- Keywords
- 1944; Newspaper comic strip
Indexer Notes
The editor's survey of 1944, in the year and in the strip. Full-page photo of Frank Sinatra.
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Li'l Abner / comic story / 151 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Yo' Pappy's pee-kool-yar talent fo' de-teck-tin' th' diffrunt feel o' one phiz-eek fum another when they smacks him square in the face is responsible fo' yo' being' free, son!
- Genre
- humor; satire-parody
- Characters
- Li'l Abner [Freddie McGurgle]; Mammy Yokum; Pappy Yokum; Daisy Mae; Concertino Constiato; Available Jones; Beulah McBugle; Hotka; O.W. Uproar; Mr. McGenius; Ronald Lovelace; Soft-Hearted John; Lester Gooch; Fearless Fosdick; Rattop; Appassionata van Climax; T. Heathcliffe McMarvel; Monster; Bat-a-Million Bashby; Marryin' Sam
- Reprints
- from Li'l Abner (United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) 1943-12-17 - 1944-12-01.
- Keywords
- Disguise; giant; hillbillies; hillbilly; impersonation; New York City; newspaper comic strip; Sadie Hawkins Day; skonk works; skunk works
Indexer Notes
Compilation of daily newspaper comic strips from December 17, 1943 through December 1, 1944. Notable story arcs include; Concertino Constiato starves Abner, then fronts him as a crooner while supplying the voice himself; Li'l Abner becomes inside man at the skonk works; Daisy Mae is the epitome of beauty; Daisy Mae and Li'l Abner are each lost in New York City; turnip termites attack Dogpatch; Li'l Abner adores Fearless Fosdick; desperate to win Appassionata van Climax, T. Heathcliffe McMarvel switches his mind into Abner's perfect body; a nine-foot Monster gal catches Li'l Abner on Sadie Hawkins Day. Freddie McGurgle is a parody of Frank Sinatra. Fearless Fosdick and Lester Gooch are parodies of Dick Tracy and his creator, Chester Gould.
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Li'l Abner / illustration / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The year is 1944.
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Li'l Abner [Freddie McGurgle]; adoring fans
Indexer Notes
Back cover repositions and crops the elements from the second page of the two-page illustration in the front matter. Design and colors by Ray Fehrenbach.
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0.
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Li'l Abner -
1.
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2.
["Li'l Abner Dailies Volume Ten: 1944"]
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3.
["Li'l Abner"]
Li'l Abner -
4.
["Li'l Abner Dailies Volume Ten: 1944 by Al Capp is copyright 1990 by Capp Enterprises, Inc...."]
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5.
The Strip Within a Strip
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6.
1944: Capp's Way
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["Yo' Pappy's pee-kool-yar talent fo' de-teck-tin' th' diffrunt feel o' one phiz-eek fum another when they smacks him square in the face is responsible fo' yo' being' free, son!"]
Li'l Abner -
8.
["Don't fiddle around!"]
Li'l Abner -
9.
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["The year is 1944."]
Li'l Abner
- Kirk House
- CuRT
- R. S. Martin
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