Li'l Abner: The Complete Dailies and Color Sundays, Vol. 1: 1934-1936

Li'l Abner: The Complete Dailies and Color Sundays, Vol. 1: 1934-1936 by Capp, Al. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9781600106118.

Head for the hills with The Library of American Comics! Next stop: Dogpatch, the sleepy little home of Pansy and Lucifer Ornamental Yokum and their 19-year-old son, Lil Abner! Eisner Award-winning editor/designer Dean Mullaney and biographical writer Bruce Canwell return to Dogpatchs roots in Volume 1 of The Complete Lil Abner, containing Al Capps comedy masterpiece from 1934-1936, including full-color Sunday pages never before collected in book form. Lil Abner moves to New York to live with his rich aunt and has to dodge both kidnappers and grasping socialites! Back home in Dogpatch, Marrying Sam works to get Abner and gorgeous Daisy Mae to the altar, while shiftless Hannibal Hoops schemes to split them apart! Then its a classic case of mistaken identity when Lil Abners evil twin, the ruthless criminal Gat Garson, comes to town... -The Library of American Comics is the worlds #1 publisher of classic newspaper comic strips, with 14 Eisner Award nominations and three wins for best book. LOAC has become "the gold standard for archival comic strip reprints...The research and articles provide insight and context, and most importantly the glorious reproduction of the material has preserved these strips for those who knew them and offers a new gateway to adventure for those discovering them for the first time.” - Scoop