Word: stripped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...missing Capp sequence concerned one Happy Vermin, the self-described "world's smartest cartoonist," who had hired Li'l Abner to draw Vermin's comic strip in a dimly lighted closet. Instead of using Vermin's tired characters, Li'l Abner had inventively peopled the strip with hillbillies. Cried bighearted Vermin to his slaving assistant: "I'm proud of having created these [hillbilly] characters!! They'll make millions for me!! And if they do-I'll get you a new light bulb...
...Capp-Fisher arguments concerns the birth of Li'l Abner: Fisher charges that Capp stole the idea from a Palooka sequence involving a hillbilly named Li'l David; Capp says he invented the hillbillies while working as Fisher's assistant on the Palooka strip...
Explained the Tribune's editors to Reader O'Toole and other disappointed Capp fans: the omitted strips "constituted a personal attack upon another prominent cartoonist. The Tribune does not allow its reporters, editors or columnists to vent personal malice . . . and it believes the same rule ought to apply to comic-strip artists...
...Clara Barton still led among girls.) The real bandwagon movement (37% of the votes) is to contemporary stars of screen, sport, radio and the comics, Averill found. Tops among the heroes in these fields: Outfielder Ted Williams, Hollywood's Gene Autry, Esther Williams and Betty Grable, the comic-strip hero Joe Palooka...
...Hangman, I charge you pay particular attention to this lady. Scourge her soundly, man; scourge her till the blood runs down. It is Christmas-a cold time for madam to strip. See that you warm her shoulders thoroughly...