Li'l Abner Dailies #11

(1991)

[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)

Pencils

Al Capp

Inks

Al Capp

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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.

"Li'l Abner" (Table of Contents: 3)

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

Pencils

Al Capp

Inks

Al Capp

Letters

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Characters

Li'l Abner

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

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

Pencils

Al Capp

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Al Capp

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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] (Table of Contents: 5)

foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 7 pages (report information)

Script

Madeline Gardner

Pencils

Al Capp; ? (photograph)

Inks

Al Capp; ? (photograph)

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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.

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comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script

Al Capp

Pencils

Al Capp

Inks

Al Capp

Letters

Al Capp

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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 (Table of Contents: 7)

text article / 2 pages (report information)

Script

Dave Schreiner

Letters

Typeset

Genre

non-fiction

Keywords

1945; Amputee; Second World War; 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.

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

Script

Al Capp

Pencils

Al Capp

Inks

Al Capp

Letters

Al Capp

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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.

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

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

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

Indexer Notes

Inside back cover

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 11)

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

Pencils

Al Capp

Inks

Al Capp

Colors

Ray Fehrenbach

Letters

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In 1945, World War II ended and a new age dawned.

Characters

Li'l Abner; assassins

Indexer Notes

Back cover. Design and color by Ray Fehrenbach from art by Al Capp.