Word: stripping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...comic-strip world of Li'l Abner the unthinkable is always happening. But few readers ever expected the most unthinkable event of all: the ("gulp") marriage of Li'l Abner to Daisy Mae. Though Abner has been close enough to the altar to whiff the smoke from the cigar of self-made Magistrate Marryin' Sam, Cartoonist Al Capp always stepped in, in time's nick, with a save. Once, at the crucial moment, a gas explosion blasted Abner into a tree out of Daisy Mae's reach. Another time, after Preacher Sam had completed...
...Wholesome Note. After 18 years, Capp has finally bowed to true love because he has become worried over the heavy load of satire his strip carries. Readers have begun to complain that it is "un-American," and he thinks a marriage, even a $1.35 (new inflation price) Dogpatch one, will introduce a wholesome note. Says Capp: "When I kidded advertising, people wrote, 'Don't you know advertising is the backbone of America?' This attitude made me uneasy about kidding America . . . The only thing for me to do seemed to be to change completely, hoping that in another...
...time Li'l Abner fans have recovered from the shock of the marriage, Capp will have another surprise for them. Next fall, he plans to make Fearless Fosdick a separate comic strip and has already lined up papers in 30 cities...
...face was familiar to Capp but the name escaped him. When Fosdick's bride first turned up in the strip several years ago her name was Bess Backache...
...theatre was opened in 1843 as the Millerite Tabernacle of a now defunct seet. It then was re-christened the Howard Athenacum and became one of the leading legitimate theatres in the country. Gaining its present name, the Old Howard is now world famous for strip tease presentations. Rose LaRese noted laterpretative daneer, will be the last of the Howard's long line of greats...