Head for the hills with The Library of American Comics! Next stop Dogpatch the sleepy little home of Pansy & Lucifer Ornamental Yokum & their 19-year-old son Li'l Abner! Eisner Award-winning editordesigner Dean Mullaney & biographical writer Bruce Canwell return to Dogpatch's roots in Volume 1 of The Complete Li'l Abner containing Al Capp's comedy masterpiece from 1934-1936 including full-color Sunday pages never before collected in book form Li'l Abner moves to New York to live with his rich aunt & has to dodge both kidnappers & grasping socialites! Back home in Dogpatch Marrying Sam works to get Abner & gorgeous Daisy Mae to the altar while shiftless Hannibal Hoops schemes to split them apart! Then it's a classic case of mistaken identity when Li'l Abner's evil twin the ruthless criminal Gat Garson comes to town -The Library of American Comics is the world's 1 publisher of classic newspaper comic strips with 14 Eisner Award nominations & three wins for best book LOAC has become "the gold standard for archival comic strip reprints research & articles provide insight & context & most importantly the glorious reproduction of the material has preserved these strips for those who knew them & offers a new gateway to adventure for those discovering them for the first time"
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