The World of Li'l Abner #U2249

(September 1965)

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Indexer Notes

Inside front cover

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credits, title page / 2 pages (report information)

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Al Capp

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Title page, front matter

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foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 6 pages (report information)

Script

John Steinbeck

First Line of Dialogue or Text

I am writing this from what we Americans call Yurrp.

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Introduction

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foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 2 pages (report information)

Script

Charles Chaplin [Charlie Chaplin]

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Benjamin Franklin said, 'Pieces of pleasantry and mirth have a strange power in them to allay the beats and tumults of our spirits.'

Innocents in Peril (Table of Contents: 5)

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Script

Al Capp

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typeset

Genre

non-fiction

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Chapter One Sadie Hawkins' Day! (Table of Contents: 7)

Li'l Abner / comic story / 23 pages (report information)

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Al Capp

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Al Capp

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Li'l Abner; Ole Man Mose; Drew Pearson; Tenderleif Ericson; Daisy Mae; Available Jones; Stupefyin' Jones; Dogpatch gals; Dogpatch bachelors; Quentin Rasputinreynolds; Marryin' Sam; Moonbeam McSwine

Synopsis

Viking maiden Tenderleif Ericson revives in a Dogpatch cave after being frozen for 947 years. Her age gives her a head start at the Sadie Hawkins Day Race, and she chooses to pursue Li'l Abner. But when she tries to drag him across the finish line, he's rooted to the spot by the sight of Stupefyin' Jones.

Keywords

Dogpatch; newspaper comic strip; Sadie Hawkins Day Race; Sadie Hawkins' Day Race; suspended animation; Viking

Chapter Two The Injuns are Comin'! (Table of Contents: 8)

Li'l Abner / comic story / 14 pages (report information)

Script

Al Capp

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Al Capp

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Genre

humor; satire-parody

Characters

Lonesome Polecat; Polecat tribe; Mammy Yokum; Pappy Yokum; Dogpatchers; Mandrake P. Mothball; President; President's secretary; radio producers; Hairless Joe

Synopsis

Discovering that the Polecat tribe has never legally concluded peace with the United States, the government tries to buy the country from them with a truckload of trinkets. When the Polecats learn that this offer means assuming the huge national debt, they take a radio performance contract instead.

Keywords

American Indian; Dogpatch; Native American; newspaper comic strip; President; Washington D.C.; White House

Chapter Three "Zoot Suit" Yokum (Table of Contents: 9)

Li'l Abner / comic story / 13 pages (report information)

Script

Al Capp

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Al Capp

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Genre

humor; satire-parody

Characters

Li'l Abner; J. Colossal McGenius; Miss Pennypacker; zoot suit manufacturers; moron; warden; Gat Garson; ordinary citizens

Synopsis

In order to promote their product, zoot suit manufacturers pay Li'l Abner a pittance to repeatedly risk his life while wearing a zoot suit. He becomes wildly popular, and so do the suits. Makers of traditional clothing briefly spring Li'l Abner's double Gat Garson from Alcatraz so he can commit mayhem, masquerading as Li'l Abner, while wearing a zoot suit. Sales collapse and the public goes back to traditional styles.

Keywords

Doppelganger; mistaken identity; newspaper comic strip; zoot suit

Chapter Four Dumpington van Lump (Table of Contents: 10)

Li'l Abner / comic story / 24 pages (report information)

Script

Al Capp

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Al Capp

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Genre

humor; satire-parody

Characters

Li'l Abner; Daisy Mae; Dumpington van Lump; butler; van Lump matriarchs; Dr. Snakepit; Mammy Yokum; Pappy Yokum; Dogpatchers; upstairs maid; artist; policewoman; janitors

Synopsis

Daisy Mae is captured as a bride for wealthy Dumpington van Lump, but she refuses. The van Lumps force her compliance by starving Dogpatch, but the upstairs maid pushes her out the window and takes her place, hidden behind the bridal veil. Daisy Mae is then imprisoned by an artist until Li'l Abner comes to the rescue. Dumpington tries to kill Li'l Abner, only to be caught in a trap of his own making.

Keywords

Dogpatch; imposter; New York City; newspaper comic strip; skyscraper; turnip termites; wedding

Chapter Five Salomey's Narrow Escape! (Table of Contents: 11)

Li'l Abner / comic story / 22 pages (report information)

Script

Al Capp

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Al Capp

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Genre

humor; satire-parody

Characters

Li'l Abner; Salomey the Pig; Bounder J. Roundheels; P. Fangsgood Droolsby; chef; Dogpatchers; Joe Btfsplk; Mammy Yokum; Pappy Yokum; Daisy Mae; Romeo Scragg

Synopsis

Roundheels, who longs to join the Gourmets' Club, needs a hammus alabammus to create the world's most succulent dish. Learning that the Yokums have the last such specimen in Salomey the Pig, he hires the Scraggs to bury them under a landslide, then steals the pig. Joe Btfsplk jinxes his plans and rescues Salomey, then causes a flood that frees the Yokums. Roundheels has himself boiled down to a single drop, taking the place of the hammus alabammus, and joins the Gourmet's Club posthumously.

Keywords

Chef; cuisine; Dogpatch; gourmet; hammus alabammus; jinx; newspaper comic strip; pig

Chapter Six El Passionato (Table of Contents: 12)

Li'l Abner / comic story / 23 pages (report information)

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Al Capp

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Al Capp

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Genre

humor; satire-parody

Characters

Li'l Abner; Felix Fandango; jailer; dictator; La Nuisanceta; people of El Passionato

Synopsis

Seeking the sole copy of a Fearless Fosdick comic book, Li'l Abner finds the owner in El Passionato, waiting for execution. Learning that only the dictator can pardon Felix, Li'l Abner incites the local girls to revolt in his favor, promising he will make their lethargic men take daily trips to breathe the more vigorous air of El Tabasco. Once the revolution is over, Felix pardoned, the men recharged, the girls satisfied, and the comic obtained, he resigns as dictator.

Keywords

Dictator; El Passionato; jail; newspaper comic strip; revolt

Chapter Seven Jack Jawbreaker (Table of Contents: 13)

Li'l Abner / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

Al Capp

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Al Capp

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Genre

humor; satire-parody

Characters

Li'l Abner; Rockwell P. Squeezeblood; Mackintosh; Baldwin; Jack Jawbreaker; newspaper executives

Synopsis

Li'l Abner goes to work for Rockwell P. Squeezeblood, who runs a highly-lucrative comic strip syndicate by making sure that he saves his cartoonists from the miseries of wealth.

Keywords

Cartoonist; newspaper comic strip

Chapter Eight Target fo' Tonight! (Table of Contents: 14)

Li'l Abner / comic story / 12 pages (report information)

Script

Al Capp

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Al Capp

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Al Capp

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Genre

humor; satire-parody

Characters

Li'l Abner; gangsters; Marryin' Sam; Pappy Yokum; Mammy Yokum; Dogpatchers; insurance salesmen

Synopsis

Mistaking Li'l Abner for Gat Garson, gangsters issue a death sentence on him. Dogpatchers mortgage their homes to make the first payment on a life insurance policy, so as to cash in when he dies. But the gangsters realize their mistake, and Li'l Abner lives.

Keywords

Dogpatch; doppelganger; insurance fraud; newspaper comic strip

Chapter Nine The Soshul Leopards (Table of Contents: 15)

Li'l Abner / comic story / 13 pages (report information)

Script

Al Capp

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Al Capp

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Genre

humor; satire-parody

Characters

Li'l Abner; Mammy Yokum; Pappy Yokum; Dogpatchers; Salomey the Pig; Abijah Gooch; Blabbermouth McJabber; It Hain't Necessarily Moe

Synopsis

Long the undisputed social leaders of Dogpatch (since Mammy can beat up everybody else in town), the Yokums suddenly and inexplicably find themselves at the bottom of the social scale. It turns out that a stranger, It Hain't Necessarily Moe, now wins all the fights. Mammy discovers that he has a secret partner, and clobbers them both.

Keywords

Dogpatch; newspaper comic strip

Chapter Ten The Marriage of Li'l Abner (Table of Contents: 16)

Li'l Abner / comic story / 26 pages (report information)

Script

Al Capp

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Al Capp

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Genre

humor; satire-parody

Characters

Li'l Abner; Mammy Yokum; Pappy Yokum; Uncle Future [Future Yokum]; Daisy Mae; Lester Gooch; Fearless Fosdick; Prudence Pimpleton; Fearless Fosdick Fan Club; bell boy; Marryin' Sam

Synopsis

Uncle Future, whose visions always come true, predicts that Li'l Abner will shortly be married. In order to avoid such a horrible fate, Li'l Abner takes an oath to do only what perennial bachelor Fearless Fosdick would do. In a chance encounter with the Fosdick cartoonist, Daisy Mae vents her rage, and he decides that for the sake of American girls, Fosdick must marry. When he does, the horrified Li'l Abner has to follow suit. When Fosdick's marriage turns out to be be a dream, Li'l Abner assumes that his is too. But Mammy informs him he is hopelessly, permanently married.

Keywords

Cartoonist; Dogpatch; Dogpatch ham; honeymoon; newspaper comic strip; wedding

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Inside back cover

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