Al Capp
Biography
Al Capp was an American cartoonist and satirist born Alfred Gerald Caplin on September 28, 1909, in New Haven, Connecticut. He created the comic strip Li'l Abner in 1934, setting stories in the fictional Appalachian town of Dogpatch and using the strip to deliver sharp social and political commentary for over four decades. At its peak the strip reached an estimated 60 million readers in more than 900 newspapers worldwide. Capp died on November 5, 1979.
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The Blighted Eye: Original Comic Art From the Glenn Bray Collection (2014)
Fantagraphics
Collected Edition
1 issue
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Issue #6
Tip Topper Comics (1949)
Volume Nine: 1951 - 1952
Al Capp's Li'l Abner Complete Daily & Color Sunday Comics (2010)
Nov 29, 2017
Volume Eight: 1949 - 1950
Al Capp's Li'l Abner Complete Daily & Color Sunday Comics (2010)
Apr 27, 2016
Volume Seven: 1947-1948
Al Capp's Li'l Abner Complete Daily & Color Sunday Comics (2010)
Dec 10, 2014
Volume Five: 1943-1944
Al Capp's Li'l Abner Complete Daily & Color Sunday Comics (2010)
Jan 16, 2013
Volume Four: 1941-1942
Al Capp's Li'l Abner Complete Daily & Color Sunday Comics (2010)
Jan 25, 2012
Volume Three: 1939-1940
Al Capp's Li'l Abner Complete Daily & Color Sunday Comics (2010)
Jun 08, 2011
Volume Two: 1937-1938
Al Capp's Li'l Abner Complete Daily & Color Sunday Comics (2010)
Issue #1
Clean Cartoonists' Dirty Drawings (2007)
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