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Al Capp pencils and inks; Dec 17 (pencil change to 1/28) featuring likely Frazetta art in the first panel! 7.5" x 23"

Illustration legend Frank Frazetta toiled as a ghost artist for a number of studios, including working for Al Capp, whose influential Li'l Abner strip was hugely popular for over three decades. In this daily strip, we can see the future master's sure, fine line, unmistakably so in the perfectly composed image of the friendly messenger, which contrasts startlingly with the easier, freer caricatures by Capp in the remainder of the strip. This daily page also boasts some of Capp's effortless comedy stylings, his slapstick image in panel three of Pappy's agony over a self-inflected wound manages to be both graceful and hilarious, no mean feat on the punishing schedule that required him to rely on young talents such as Frazetta to turn out mountains of material for a Dogpatch-hungry public.