Word: capps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last October Funnypaper Artist Al Capp turned his popular Li'l Abner, published in over 600 papers and top-flight among comic strips, into a three-week slapstick parody of Margaret Mitchell's famed best-seller Gone With The Wind (he called it Gone Wif the Wind). Said Capp: "I really went to town. It was swell...
...Capp was bewildered. He had used Li'l Abner to burlesque many a book and play. He had parodied Romeo &Juliet,and William Shakespeare had not turned a hair...
...United Feature Syndicate's lawyers looked up the law, found that had Capp called his parody Gone With the Breeze he would have been in the clear. Now, since he had practically used Margaret Mitchell's copyrighted title, he could be sued for $1 for every copy of every paper in which the parody had appeared. This made a suit for $75,000,000 technically possible. Last week Al Capp devoted two panels of his regular Sunday strip to a cold public apology, letting Dogpatcher Mammy Yokum do most of the talking: "Sartin parties got their feelin...
Unabashed, the News got the high-ranking fraternity Chi Psi to stage a Sadie Hawkins dance, arranged to brew for the affair Dogpatch's favorite drink, Kickapoo Joy-Juice, invited Li'l Abner's Creator Al Capp to the celebration, sent application forms to women's colleges...