Li'l Abner Dailies #10

(1990)

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

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

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

foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page (report information)

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.

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

Li'l Abner / illustration / 2 pages (report information)

Pencils

Al Capp ?

Inks

Al Capp ?

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Li'l Abner

Genre

humor

Characters

Li'l Abner [Freddie McGurgle]; Concertino Constiato

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

foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

Al Capp (illustration)

Inks

Al Capp (illustration)

Letters

typeset

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 (Table of Contents: 5)

text article / 7 pages (report information)

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 (Table of Contents: 6)

text article / 3 pages (report information)

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.

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

Li'l Abner / comic story / 151 pages (report information)

Script

Al Capp (credited)

Pencils

Al Capp (credited)

Inks

Al Capp (credited)

Letters

Al Capp (credited)

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.

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

Li'l Abner / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

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

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

Indexer Notes

Inside back cover

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

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

Pencils

Al Capp ?

Inks

Al Capp ?

Colors

Ray Fehrenbach

Letters

typeset

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.