Product Description: This volume features two separate Fearless Fosdick adventures. In one, our favorite bumbling detective moonlights as female officer Phyllis Fosdick. Paramount successfully released their Li'l Abner movie in 1959, but here Li'l Abner makes a separate film... with disastrous results. Years before Japan invaded the American auto market, Capp presciently depicts the success of the $19.95 Japanese Nomotocar (it has no motor), and Capp foresaw the cross-breeding of animals long before DNA manipulation. Also featured in this volume: jinx Joe Btfsplk, pilot Captain Eddie Ricketyback, corrupt Senator Jack S. Phogbound, and criminal Abner doppelganger Gat Garson! Each quarterly volume contains extensive story-by-story annotations by Li'l Abner and Al Capp expert Denis Kitchen.
Comics Junkie Grew up reading this series. Now I have a permanent copy of my own. Good price and great product for comics junkies.
Daisy, Daisy.... I purchased this volume as a gift for my Dad who was a big fan of L'il Abner in the 50's and 60's. Dad always liked Daisy Mae! I figured Dad who is a widower could use a little Daisy Mae in his life again. Of course I couldn't resist sitting down and reading the four volumes I bought for him- I did read L'il Abner when I was a kid in the 60's but a lot of it was way over my head back then. Now I can see it through adult eyes and I understand the satire and the subtle shades of humor far better then ever! It's been a fun and interesting meander down Memory Lane! Highly recommended for those who enjoy pure slapstick humor and outrageous satire!
Thank goodness for Frazzetta's reputation Lil Abner always had a strong fan club that allowed the reprinting of the daily strips by Kitchen Sink press for about 25 volumes, which if there was no fan base, only one or two volumes would have been published.
In addition,we are very lucky that Frazetta's reputation and fan club would allow the printing of a comic strip that John Steinbeck once stated, its author, Al Capp, should be given the Putszler (excuse the spelling) prize.
Al Capp was a master satirist and storyteller, who would have one acclaim like Mark Twain or O'Henry if not for the snob attitude toward comic strips.
This is shown here. The 50-year-old color strips are re-printed in a fine manner with expert commentary about the period they were written in by Denis Kitchen.
Beware, they feature "politically incorrect" well-endowed women, and one main character, Daisy Mae, as mostly submissive, which would not be allowed in comic strips today as it would raise the ire of feminists and other "progressive" people.
On the other hand, it features the two main male characters, Abner and Pappy, as idiots or wimps, Abner and his brother Tiny as "hunks", and the one of the main women characters, Mammy as the leader of the Yokum clan, who occassionally beats Pappy, which are allowed in comic strips today as the "Progressives" seem to have no problem with this.
Remember, vintage comic strip reprints do not generate big bucks, some even lose money. They are produced out of great admiration for the strips, and we should be grateful for the publishers for doing so.
By the way, why does Amazon include a 'NO' in 'was this review helpful to you?'. People are only human and don't like opinions that differ from themselves. With some who are less mature, this the 'NO' makes it too easy express such displeasure.
Are they trying to discourage negative reviews, hence not purchase the CD. Such reviews only help a person in not being dissatisfied a product that received positive reviews
Hilarious but marred by poor reproduction I loved the material, but I wish the publishers had taken some care in reproducing the strips. Most look as if they are poor color copies of old Sunday papers. A very few appear to have been re-colored acceptably, but most are pretty darn sloppy.
Head for the hills! This is the final volume in the series of reprints of Sunday Li'l Abner strips. They chose to focus on the years when Frank Frazzetta was drawing the majority of the Sunday strips. I wish they would have printed the entire run of the series, but that's their decision. Anyway, Li'l Abner was a great comic strip for most of it's run, and this time period was no exception. Anyone with an interest in old time comic strips should get this book.
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