Al Capp's Li'l Abner: The Frazetta Years HC Vol 1 1 High Grade (2003)

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• 1 The Wrecker Pencils: Frank Frazetta +
  "The Wrecker" is an otherwise average girl who drives men mad with lust when they see her. Mammy has to engage C.C. "Complete Control" Yokum to solve the mystery.
• 2 Cousin Weakeyes the Babysitter Pencils: Frank Frazetta +
  While baby-sitting, Cousin Weakeyes mistakes "Ole Bucktooth," the wolf for Pappy Yokum.
• 3 This Is Your Wife Pencils: Frank Frazetta +
  Mammy and Pappy Yokum are featured on the "This Is Your Wife" television program.
• 4 The Slobbovian Bald Iggle Pencils: Frank Frazetta +
  In order to sell $5 billion of unwanted dog food, General Bullmoose arranges for an atomic bomb test that uproots Lower Slobbovia. The icy wasteland drifts to Florida where it becomes part of the United States. Bullmoose plans to sell the dog food to the starving Slobbovians, but the bald iggles, little beasts whose gaze forces anyone to tell the truth, disrupt the plan. The bald iggles invade the United States, forcing people to tell the truth and causing havoc.
• 5 Hairless Joe's and Lonesome Polecat's Insurance Policies Pencils: Frank Frazetta +
  An insurance salesman sells Hairless Joe and Lonesome Polecat life insurance policies so that each would receive $500 if the other would die.
• 6 Pappy's Tall Tales Pencils: Frank Frazetta +
  Pappy tells Honest Abe a tall tale about how he invented the airplane. In the second strip, Pappy claims to have fought Jack Dempsey.
• 7 The Most Successful Wife in Dogpatch Pencils: Frank Frazetta +
  A reporter from "Wife" magazine interviews Daisy Mae.
• 8 Pappy's Criminal Double Pencils: Frank Frazetta +
  Pappy is mistaken for his cousin Sharpie Yokum, the "slickest racketeer east of the Mississippi."
• 9 Lonesome Polecat and Hairless Joe go to Harvard Pencils: Frank Frazetta +
  Hairless Joe and Lonesome Polecat receive scholarships to Harvard. They take their pet dinosaur along and cause havoc at Yale and other places.
• 10 Loverboynik the Pianist Pencils: Frank Frazetta +
  When TV critic Don Crabsey gives TV pianist Loverboynik a bad review, Loverboynik plots to stage a catastrophe to get Crabsey's attention.
• 11 Moonbeam McSwine trades places with Gloria Van Welbilt Pencils: Frank Frazetta +
  Moonbeam McSwine trades places with socialite Gloria Van Welbilt, but C. C. "Complete Control" Yokum causes complications.
• 12 "Druthers," the Addictive Snack Pencils: Frank Frazetta +
  An "X-Bomb" test results in strange plants growing on Bald Mountain. Their fruit is delicious, plentiful, and addictive. Mammy Yokum, who owns the mountain, sells the rights to package the snack to greedy financial genius Ernest Hummingbird, who will only charge for the packaging. Once Hummingbird has the populace addicted to the snack, he starts raising the price of the packaging.
• 13 Nightmare Alice and the "Moonwinkle" Cloth Pencils: Frank Frazetta +
  A New York fashion designer pretends to be in love with Nightmare Alice, the witch, in order to learn the secret of her radiant "Moonwinkle" cloth.
• 14 Professor Fleasong's Lectures Pencils: Frank Frazetta +
  Professor Fleasong gives a series of three lectures: "How to Jedge [sic] Character", "How Tragic is My Breakfast", and "Smiles."
• 15 The Yokums on TV in New York Inks: Frank Frazetta +
  TV personality Dave Grindaway's network execs think Li'l Abner is the world's greatest comedian, so Grindaway moves their home (mountain and all) to New York to film a series with him. When the network people decide Daisy Mae isn't the right type to "play" Li'l Abner's wife, and replace her with a hard-edged double, Abner decides to quit.
• 16 Mammy and Race Driver "The Great Lasagna" Pencils: Frank Frazetta +
  Italian race driver Luigi Lasagna crashes into the Yokum's house and somehow he ends up in Mammy's bed and Mammy ends up in the race car, which continues on to finish the race.
• 17 Nightmare Alice and Robert Midjutt Pencils: Frank Frazetta +
  Nightmare Alice falls in love with fighter Robert Midjutt, but after she uses her voodoo magic to help win fights, she finds he's cheating on her with an old girlfriend.
• 18 Pappy the Financial Genius Script: Al Capp +
  Pappy inadvertently causes the Stock Market Crash of 1929.
• 19 Tiny Gets Engaged Script: Al Capp +
• 20 Cousin Weakeyes and the Skunk Script: Al Capp +
  Cousin Weakeyes accidentally brings a skunk to Mammy's trashbean supper.
• 21 Raving Dove Goes to Washington Script: Al Capp +
  Raving Dove convinces her Indian tribe to go to Washington, D.C. and take the country back from the white man.
• 22 The Nightmare Alice Hairdo Fad Script: Al Capp +
  Teen girls copy Nightmare Alice's hairstyle, for a while.
• 23 I Know Joe Script: Al Capp +
  Li'l Abner, Daisy Mae, and Honest Abe are stranded in a strange city where the phrase to cure all problems seems to be "I know Joe."
• 24 Pappy the Joke Teller Script: Al Capp +
  The boys at the stable don't appreciate Pappy's jokes. Pappy tells them to a stranger and a week later the boys at the stable laugh at the same jokes when they're told by (an unnamed) Milton Berle.
• 25 Jack Benny's Vacation Script: Al Capp +
  Jack Benny (not named) spends a week's vacation with the Yokums for $1.00.
• 26 The Monstrosaurus Egg Script: Al Capp +
  Lonesome Polecat and Raving Dove take a Monstrosaurus egg to the Smithsonian Institute for a $10,000 reward, but the egg hatches en route.
• 27 The Honest Abe Mix-up Script: Al Capp +
  When the Cornpones bring their large family to visit the Yokums, one of their boys gets left behind and Honest Abe is taken home by the Cornpones.
• 28 The Time Capsule Script: Al Capp +
  Li'l Abner accidentally gets locked in an indestructible time capsule and the government declares him legally dead.
• 29 Jack and the Beanstalk Is a Crime Story Script: Al Capp +
  When the "Dogpatch Mammy's Club" decides that comic strips are bad for children, Li'l Abner shows them that stories by Poe, Twain, Shakespeare, etc., were also full of violence.

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