Li'l Abner by Al Capp for May 14, 2012

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    Vista Bill Raley and Comet™  over 12 years ago

    I loved the Hour of Lard! Too bad it didn’t make it to tv.

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    JollyRoger56  over 12 years ago

    Ah! The good old days when you used your imagination while listening to the radio.

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    bopard  over 12 years ago

    I can see Hamms is spoofing Dick Haynes. But who is Yakarpas?

    Best spoof was Liberace appearing as Loverboynick. Boyless Bailey would have finally have lifted the boyless curse if they hadn’t found out he was actually a Scragg- thus declared by congress to be inhyoman.

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    gimmickgenius  over 12 years ago

    “Parkyakarkus” was a vaudeville & radio comedian… stage name was a slurring of “Park your carcass” – in other words, sit down and relax. http://projects.latimes.com/hollywood/star-walk/parkyakarkus/

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    namsi  over 12 years ago

    Parkyarkarkas was a comic on the EDDIE CANTOR radio show may years ago !!!!!!!!!

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    Philamon Madison  over 12 years ago

    O.K., with Porkyarkarkus we don’t need Fosdick.

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    finkd  over 12 years ago

    But only during the farm report – at 5 A.M.

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    tuslog64  over 12 years ago

    No update today? Maybe we’re ready to start over.

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    mjmsprt40  over 12 years ago

    I wonder if it’s going to re-start from the beginning like it’s done several times before.

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    el8  over 12 years ago

    looks like she’s in the can to me

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    Vista Bill Raley and Comet™  over 12 years ago

    The needle appears to be stuck in the groove…

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    RegHartt  over 12 years ago

    I do hope we are not going to be stuck here for long. I loved this strip as a kid. Discovering these reprints has been a source of real excitement. Capp was a born story teller.

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    JollyRoger56  over 12 years ago

    Did they get stuck or something? It’s been the same strip about 4 days in a row.

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    cowboy1  over 12 years ago

    also Friday !

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    jackdohany  over 12 years ago

    Wahhhh! Bring back Li’l Abner!!!!!!!

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    Mister-Edd  over 12 years ago

    The “Hour of Lard” looks like it’s extending to a WEEK of Lard!

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    Vista Bill Raley and Comet™  over 12 years ago

    Please… change the channel.

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    JollyRoger56  over 12 years ago

    I guess Al Capp lost a lot of the work he’s done on Li’l Abner and keeps showing the same ones that he salvaged.

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    reader1k  over 12 years ago

    During 2007 and 2008, this site gave access to the entire history of the strip (minus the missing ones), accessed by the original dates. The one shown here ran on May 31, 1948. Following that, it jumped to the end of 1951, for three days. Then, it began a run of every day through 1952, 1953, 1954 and 1955. It stopped at that point.

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    reader1k  over 12 years ago

    During 2007 and 2008, this site gave access to the entire history of the strip (minus the missing ones), accessed by the original dates. The one shown here ran on May 31, 1948. Following that, it jumped to the end of 1951, for three days. Then, it began a run of every day through 1952, 1953, 1954 and 1955. It stopped at that point.

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    bopard  over 12 years ago

    pre-1970 copyright law. Some of the strips are in public domain now. Most of them were renewed. I don’t think many are protected by the 75 year after death of artist. I’ll just have to head back to the library and read the old newspapers on microfilm. It’s tough getting good focus on the comic page tho. Some of the frames are very blurry.

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    dsrickel  over 12 years ago

    Kitchen Sink published a bunch of the dailies; you might be able to find some of those in your library. They’d be better than the newspaper microfilms.

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