off topic:li'l abner

[duck dodgers]

i'm looking for dark horse deluxe hardcover complete edition of the li'l abner strips,anyone can help me?

 

[PlopKat]

Li'l Abner reprints

Before they went out of business, Kitchen Sink Press was reprinting the daily Li'l Abner strips and released 27 volumes of them. Each volume contained a year's worth of strips and always had excellent essays as introductions. They were available in trade paperback and hardcovers (the hardcovers sold for $34.95 IIRC).

Kitchen Sink also pupblished two volumes of Fearless Fosdick, the strip within the strip of Li'l Abner.

I think the Kitchen Sink reprints are all out of print. Personally, I found them hard to find when they were in print. I always had to special order them but no one source ever seemed to have them all. And those were the paperback editions!

If you can't find them through Amazon or eBay, I would try abebooks.com or bibliofind.com.

Dark Horse has recently released four hardcover volumes of Li'l Abner Sundays under the title "Al Capp's Li'l Abner: The Frazetta Years." Yes, it's from the period when that Frank Frazetta ghosted for Li'l Abner. All together they contain Sunday strips from 1954 through 1961. The comics are in color and are reproduced from newspaper pages, not from the original art or re-colored in any high tech / slick way.

The Dark Horse books have been relatively easy to find. I found two in a comic shop and was able to special order the other two. I think the books are reasonably priced at $18.95.

-PlopKat

now unsure if he REALLY helped duck dodgers at all with this post & who is still looking for the last three elusive volumes of Fantagraphics Popeye, volumes 1 & 4 of Kitchen Sink's Alley Oop reprints, and volume 2 of Fearless Fosdick from Kitchen Sink

 

[duck dodgers]

Before they went out of business, Kitchen Sink Press was reprinting the daily Li'l Abner strips and released 27 volumes of them. Each volume contained a year's worth of strips and always had excellent essays as introductions. They were available in trade paperback and hardcovers (the hardcovers sold for $34.95 IIRC).

Kitchen Sink also pupblished two volumes of Fearless Fosdick, the strip within the strip of Li'l Abner.

I think the Kitchen Sink reprints are all out of print. Personally, I found them hard to find when they were in print. I always had to special order them but no one source ever seemed to have them all. And those were the paperback editions!

If you can't find them through Amazon or eBay, I would try abebooks.com or bibliofind.com.

Dark Horse has recently released four hardcover volumes of Li'l Abner Sundays under the title "Al Capp's Li'l Abner: The Frazetta Years." Yes, it's from the period when that Frank Frazetta ghosted for Li'l Abner. All together they contain Sunday strips from 1954 through 1961. The comics are in color and are reproduced from newspaper pages, not from the original art or re-colored in any high tech / slick way.

The Dark Horse books have been relatively easy to find. I found two in a comic shop and was able to special order the other two. I think the books are reasonably priced at $18.95.

-PlopKat

now unsure if he REALLY helped duck dodgers at all with this post & who is still looking for the last three elusive volumes of Fantagraphics Popeye, volumes 1 & 4 of Kitchen Sink's Alley Oop reprints, and volume 2 of Fearless Fosdick from Kitchen Sink

i got the frazetta ones,thanks!
is there anyone who got what i'm looking for and want to sell to me?

 

[guy incognito]

Speaking of comic-strip collections, can anyone tell me where I might track down some of Fantagraphics' OOP "Pogo" books?

 

[rodney]

A few Pogo volumes are on Amazon, but not many. I've been looking for them forever without much luck.

 

[JUNGLEJIM ENGEL]

RE: the POGO books..try (if you've got 'em in your area) a BORDER'S store. Around Chicago, I've noticed some of them are still on the shelf.

 

[PlopKat]

Here is a webpage, http://www.al-capp-lil-abner.com/ , that lists a few hardcover Li'l Abner volumes for sale.

-PlopKat