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Issue: Li'l Abner Dailies #1

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Publication Date: January 1989

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Issues: #1 of 27 Issues (32 Printings)

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Variant: Third Printing

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Publisher: Flag

Kitchen Sink Press

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Indicia Publisher: Kitchen Sink Press Inc.

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Volume: none

Pages: 236

ISBN: 087816037X

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $21.50 CAD
$16.95 USD

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Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
10 (2 stories, 1 cover) from base issue

Editor(s): Dave Schreiner

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Format

Publication Type: Trade Paperback

Color: Color cover; Black and White interior

Dimensions: 12" x 9"

Paper Stock: glossy card stock covers; bond interiors

Binding: Perfect Bound Trade Paperback

Publishing Format: collected edition

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Li'l Abner Dailies #1 [unnamed variant]

Li'l Abner Dailies #1 [Third Printing]

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Content Items (10 total)

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Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Credits

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Character(s): Li'l Abner; Daisy Mae; Mammy Yokum; Pappy Yokum; the Master; Lem Scragg; Silkstockin' Sally; Slugger Bashmouth; Bessie; Hairless Joe; Romeo Scragg; Marryin' Sam; Hannibal Hoops (also as the ghost of Ole Judge Scragg)

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: Montage of characters. Cover design by Peter Poplaski.
Although shown on the cover, the Master does not appear in this volume.

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Blank Page(s) on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: Inside front cover

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Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Character(s): Babs; Li'l Abner

First Line: Great heavens!

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 2

Notes: Title page includes an illustration that is a reprint of the second panel of the October 25, 1935 comic strip reprinted on page 201.

Introduction

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Penciller(s): ? (photograph)

Inker(s): ? (photograph)

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: non-fiction

Character(s): Al Capp; Catherine Capp

First Line: I met Alfred Gerald Caplin -- Al Capp -- when we were both students at the Designers Art School in Boston.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 2

Notes: The introduction by Capp's widow is accompanied by photos and a drawing by Al Capp.

Innocents in Peril

Text Article on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: non-fiction

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: Al Capp's thoughts on comic strip creation.

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous

Character(s): Al Capp

First Line: About the time my first crop of whiskers began to come up, I took a walking trip through the Kentucky mountains.

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Pages: 1

Notes: Humorous account of finding inspiration for Li'l Abner.

The Storyteller

Text Article on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Penciller(s): ? (photograph)

Inker(s): ? (photograph)

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: non-fiction

Character(s): Al Capp; Catherine Capp; Mr. Gilfeather; Joe Palooka; Big Leviticus

Reprinting

Reprint Notes: panel from Mister Gilfeather (The Associated Press) 1932-06-18.
six panels from Joe Palooka (McNaught Syndicate) 1933-11-12 reprinted in black and white.

Miscellaneous

Pages: 6

Notes: Series editor's overview of Al Capp's career. Photos of Al Capp. Panel dated June 18, 1932 from his early feature "Mr. Gilfeather." "Joe Palooka" page from November 12, 1933, when Capp was an assistant for Ham Fisher. According to the article, Al Capp was the actual artist of the Joe Palooka strip reprinted here as Ham Fisher was on an extended vacation.

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Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous

Character(s): Li'l Abner; Daisy Mae; Mammy Yokum; Pappy Yokum; Bessie; Romeo Scragg; Marryin' Sam; Hannibal Hoops; Mary Ann Astorbux

First Line: The simple home of the Yokums, resting high in the hills of the south.

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Reprint Notes: from Li'l Abner (United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) 1934-08-13 - 1936-01-07.

Miscellaneous

Pages: 220

Notes: Collection of daily newspaper comic strips, with first appearance of all characters named. Notable story arcs include: Li'l Abner goes to visit Aunt Bessie in New York; Li'l Abner is kidnapped; the Scraggs feud with the Yokums, and torment Daisy Mae; Daisy Mae wants to marry Li'l Abner; Li'l Abner goes to elementary school; greedy relatives fight for custody of Mary Ann Astorbux; Li'l Abner dresses in drag and takes it on the lam with Mary Ann; Hannibal Hoops woos Daisy Mae; Marryin' Sam drums up business; Mammy and Pappy save Li'l Abner from matrimony.

According to Schreiner's essay, confirmed by Catherine Capp Halberstadt's introduction, Catherine Capp assisted on the strip during 1934-1935. She indicated that she provided backgrounds, particularly for outdoor scenes in the hills, for the strip's first six to twelve months. She also lettered early strips. Schreiner reports that Moe Leff became assistant in 1935.

Signature: Al Capp signed his name in several ways including: Al Capp; Al. Capp; Al. G. Capp; Al G. Capp; Al G Capp; and C—. Although normally signed in cursive, the strip was on occasion signed by printing.

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Blank Page(s) on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Pages: 1

Notes: Inside back cover

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Illustration on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Character(s): Baron Slinkovitch; Li'l Abner; Daisy Mae; Mammy Yokum; Pappy Yokum; Payne Morland; Mary Ann Astorbux

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: Back cover. Montage of characters. Cover design by Peter Poplaski.