{"product_id":"loac-essentials-volume-4-alley-oop-1939-9781613778296","title":"LOAC Essentials Volume 4: Alley Oop 1939","description":"\u003cp\u003ea darned good read - The Comics Journal  In 1939  Vincent Trout Hamlin had been writing and drawing the successful Alley Oop for more than five years. In Alley Oop  Hamlin created a unique concept  marrying his fascination with dinosaurs and prehistoric times to a rollicking style of storytelling and drawing that was simultaneously serious  fantastic  and loaded with slapstick. The series was set in the kingdom of Moo and starred Alley Oop  the club-wielding caveman  his girlfriend Ooola  friends Dinny the dinosaur and Foozy (who speaks in rhyme)  plus Oops rival  King Guz  and Guzs Queen Umpateedle. Yet Hamlin knew that the strips horizons in Moo were limited. So it was  in early 1939  that Alley Oop and Ooola see a mysterious box and  to the utter amazement of Guz and his minions  promptly fade from view  followed by the caption: \"Dear Reader: you must now say goodbye to Moo...if you are to follow Alley Oop in this strangest of many strange adventures.  V. T. Hamlin\". Oop and Ooola had entered a time machine and were now living in the modern day 20th Century! Their host was the inventor of the time machine  Dr. Elbert Wonmug! No change of such magnitude had ever occurred in a continuing newspaper strip  and readers responded enthusiastically. With every time period in history available as a backdrop  Alley Oop became even more popular.  This volume features Oops final Moo adventure  followed by his trips to the 20th Century and ancient Greece  where he and Ooola share adventures with brave Ulysses  the lovely Helen of Troy  and the mighty Hercules. V.T. Hamlin would send his characters everywhere and everywhen  but the classic Alley Oop begins with the stories contained in this volume. The book is introduced by Michael T. Price  who first met V. T. Hamlin in the 1960s and remained friendly with him for the rest of the cartoonists life. Price also composed the musical score for Hip Pocket Theatres production  Alley Oop.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45275817541685,"sku":"ByrdShop_1613778295","price":763.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781613778296.jpg?v=1780515885","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/loac-essentials-volume-4-alley-oop-1939-9781613778296","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}