(1991)
- Price
- 18.95 USD; 22.75 CAD
- Pages
- 172
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Kitchen Sink Press
- Brand
-
Kitchen Sink Press
- ISBN
-
0-87816-083-3
- Editing
- Dave Schreiner (editor)
Issue Notes
[no title indexed]
Li'l Abner / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Li'l Abner; Timberwolf McHowl; Moonshine McSwine; Moonbeam McSwine; Fleabrain; Salomey
Indexer Notes
Cover design and colors by Ray Fehrenbach, from art by Al Capp.
[no title indexed]
foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Li'l Abner Dailies Volume Eleven: 1945
- Characters
- Li'l Abner; Mammy Yokum; Pappy Yokum
Indexer Notes
Title page. One panel repeated oversize from interior.
[no title indexed]
foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Li'l Abner Dailies Volume Eleven: 1945 is copyright 1991 by Capp Eneterprises, Inc.....
- Characters
- Mammy Yokum; Pappy Yokum
Indexer Notes
Front matter with illustration
[no title indexed]
foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 7 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- When Franklin Roosevelt died in April of 1945, it was the end of our youth.
- Genre
- non-fiction
- Characters
- Al Capp; Tillie Caplin; Madeline Caplin Gardner; Martin Davidsen; Julie Capp; Catherine Capp; Louis Gardner; Elliott Caplin; Ruth Caplin; Rabbi Isadore Davidsen; Jerry Caplin [Bense]
- Keywords
- Cartoonist; wedding; World War II
Indexer Notes
Introduction by Al Capp's sister. Al Capp's 1920s sketch of his mother. Family photos from 1938 through 1988.
[no title indexed]
comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Mistah Capp was bawn in Noo Haven, Corn-etty-kut in 1909.
- Genre
- biography
- Characters
- Al Capp; Li'l Abner; Mammy Yokum; Pappy Yokum
- Synopsis
- Al Capp and a friend practice for a hitchhiking trip by jumping on and off of moving vehicles, until Al lands in the path of a trolley car.
- Keywords
- Connecticut; New Haven; Red Cross; streetcar; trolley
Indexer Notes
Excerpt from a Red Cross booklet in which Al tells how he lost his left leg. Distributed to amputee servicemen during and after World War II. Al in the story is about ten years older than the Al of real life who lost his leg.
1945: Busy Days
text article / 2 pages
- Script
- Dave Schreiner
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- non-fiction
- Keywords
- 1945; Amputee; veteran; World War II
Indexer Notes
The editor's comments on 1945, in the world and in the strip. Includes a lengthy excerpt describing one of Al Capp's many visits to talk with amputees at veterans' hospitals.
[no title indexed]
Li'l Abner / comic story / 151 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- It is only because you are one of the world's greatest chemists, Professor Machiavelli, that I've consented to this fantastic interview --
- Genre
- humor; satire-parody
- Characters
- Li'l Abner; Mammy Yokum; Pappy Yokum; Daisy Mae; Fangbottom; Dr. Rasputin; Aunt Bessie; Prudence Pebblefeather; the Ineffable; Orson Waggon; Inspector Blugstone; Barbara Seville; Timberwolf McHowl; Westbrook P. Buckingham [Scorned-by-Swine]; Marryin' Sam
- Keywords
- Oil industry; radio; rationing; Sadie Hawkins Day; Scotland Yard; wedding
Indexer Notes
Compilation of daily newspaper comic strips from December 2, 1944 through November 17, 1945. Notable story arcs include: a formula to replace gasoline without cost; Dr. Rasputin tries to exploit Mammy's belief in spirits; Li'l Abner loses all of Aunt Bessie's money; Aunt Bessie arranges for him to marry with a 10 million dollar settlement, then finesses him out of the marriage and the money; Asian assassins pursue Li'l Abner; Inspector Blugstone pursues Li'l Abner; Orson Waggon tortures Li'l Abner for the sake of radio realism; Li'l Abner marries a tailor's dummy; Westbrook Buckingham is a Polecat Indian in disguise; Marryin' Sam insists that all the men run the Sadie Hawkins Race with their eyes and faces covered. Orson Waggon is a parody of Orson Welles.
[no title indexed]
Li'l Abner / illustration / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- In 1945, World War II ended and a new age dawned.
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Li'l Abner; assassins
Indexer Notes
Back cover. Design and color by Ray Fehrenbach from art by Al Capp.
-
0.
[no title indexed]
Li'l Abner -
1.
[no title indexed]
-
2.
["Li'l Abner Dailies Volume Eleven: 1945"]
-
3.
"Li'l Abner"
Li'l Abner -
4.
["Li'l Abner Dailies Volume Eleven: 1945 is copyright 1991 by Capp Eneterprises, Inc....."]
-
5.
["When Franklin Roosevelt died in April of 1945, it was the end of our youth."]
-
6.
["Mistah Capp was bawn in Noo Haven, Corn-etty-kut in 1909."]
-
7.
1945: Busy Days
-
8.
["It is only because you are one of the world's greatest chemists, Professor Machiavelli, that I've consented to this fantastic interview --"]
Li'l Abner -
9.
["Come a runnin'!"]
Li'l Abner -
10.
[no title indexed]
-
11.
["In 1945, World War II ended and a new age dawned."]
Li'l Abner
- Kirk House
- Keith Alan Morgan
- Boris Ammerlaan
All portions of the Grand Comics Database™, except where noted otherwise, are
copyrighted by the GCD and are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0). This includes but is not necessarily limited to our database schema and data distribution format.