Al Capp's Li'l Abner: The Frazetta Years Volume 1 1954 - 1955
Created by Al Capp, illustrated by Frank Frazetta. Dark Horse, August 2003. Before legendary artist Frank Frazetta became an American institution for his lush paintings, he was drawing muscular hillbillies and scantily clad women for an earlier American institution: the comic strip Li'l Abner, which boasted 60 million readers daily. From 1954 till 1961 Frazetta was a ghost artist for Al Capp, the most famous and successful cartoonist of his era. Except for a brief 1954 dailies sequence (when Frazetta drew himself as "Frankie the Biker" in a send-up of Marlon Brando's contemporary motorcycle film The Wild Ones) Frazetta's energy was focused on the Li'l Abner Sunday strips. For the first time ever these gorgeous full-colour Sundays are being collected in four comprehensive volumes! Each volume contains an introduction and extensive annotations by Li'l Abner expert Denis Kitchen. Volume 1 features The Bald Iggle (from Capp's Shmoo and Kigmy school of creatures with social messages), Loverboynik (a thinly disguised Liberace) and Milton the Masked Martian (an early superhero parody) as well as Indian princess Minnie Mustache, Moonbeam McSwine, The Tigress, Daisy Mae Yokum and Gloria Van Wellbilt. 128 pages. Hard Cover Full Colour 9" x 12" (23cm x 30cm) ISBN: 1569719594

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Al Capp's Li'l Abner The Frazetta Years Volume 3 1958 - 1959
Created by Al Capp, illustrated by Frank Frazetta, edited by Denis Kitchen. Dark Horse, 2003. From 1954 through 1961 the legendary illustrator Frank Frazetta "ghosted" Al Capp's Li'l Abner newspaper cartoon strip. Volume 3 collects together all Frazetta's Sunday pages from 1958 to 1959. The humorous Li'l Abner gets a job as a mattress tester, becomes a successful cartoonist and separates from his lifelong love Daisy Mae, plus Hairless Joe and Lonesome Polecat in their hometown of Dogpatch. This is a full colour, annotated, hardcover edition. 120 pages. Hard Cover Full Colour 9" x 12" (23cm x 30cm)

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Al Capp's Li'l Abner: The Frazetta Years Volume 4 1960 - 1961
Created by Al Capp, illustrated by Frank Frazetta, edited by Denis Kitchen. Dark Horse, 2004. From 1954 through 1961 the legendary illustrator Frank Frazetta 'ghosted' Al Capp's Li'l Abner newspaper cartoon strip. Volume 4 collects together all Frazetta's Sunday pages from 1960 to 1961, which concludes the series. Li'l Abner has numerous more hilarious adventures, which feature his lifelong love Daisy Mae, plus Hairless Joe & Lonesome Polecat in their hometown of Dogpatch. This is a full colour, annotated, hardcover edition. 120 pages. Hard Cover Full Colour 9" x 12" (23cm x 30cm) ISBN: 1593071337

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