Number 2437: Li’l Abner, fanboy

Li’l Abner must have obsessive compulsive disorder, which is not unfamiliar to comic book collectors. He goes to great lengths for his Fearless Fosdick comic book (or “comical book,” as Abner calls comics). He is such a fan that he travels to the country of El Passionato to find the last surviving copy of the latest issue. Somehow, as the splash panel tells us, all the copies of that issue were lost at sea. What sea? In 1952, the year that Li’l Abner #87 was published, comics were printed in the U.S., except for some printed in Canada. Whatever...Al Capp's artistic license certainly makes for a colorful tale, having Abner in a country full of beautiful señoritas, and becoming El Presidente!

But, you say, why are we not seeing the other characters, Mammy, Pappy, Daisy Mae, and on down the line of Capp’s colorful cast? They just didn't figure into this story, so for a more traditional Li’l Abner story go to the link below.

Just click on the thumbnail for a tale of Sadie Hawkins Day in Dogpatch:

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