Fearless Fosdick - Further Reading

Further Reading

Representative samplings of Fearless Fosdick have been collected in two reprint anthologies, both published by Kitchen Sink Press. All titles are by Al Capp:

• Al Capp's Li'l Abner #68 - Fearless Fosdick Battles Anyface (January 1949) Toby Press
• Fearless Fosdick and the Case of the Red Feather (1951) Public services giveaway issued by Red Feather Services, (a forerunner of United Way)
• Al Capp's Li'l Abner #95 - Fearless Fosdick Is Back (September 1954) Toby Press
• Al Capp's Fearless Fosdick: His Life and Deaths (1956) Simon & Schuster
• Pappagalli e Fagioli di Al Capp (1970) Milano Libri Edizioni
• L'Ossobuco Vivente di Al Capp (1970) Milano Libri Edizioni
• Fearless Fosdick (1990) Kitchen Sink (A new edition of the above 1956 title) ISBN 0-87816-108-2
• Fearless Fosdick: The Hole Story (1992) Kitchen Sink ISBN 0-87816-164-3
• L'Anglais par la BD: Fosdick Super-Detective (1992) Presses-Pocket ISBN 2-266-05050-8

Fosdick also appears sporadically, but memorably, in:

• Pageant Digest - Vol. 7, #11 (May 1952) A 20-page exposé on Fearless Fosdick, with strip excerpts
• The World of Li'l Abner (1953) Farrar, Straus & Young
• Charlie Mensuel #20 (September 1970) A French monthly periodical devoted to comics
• Charlie Mensuel #27 (April 1971)
• Charlie Mensuel #115 (August 1978)
• The Best of Li'l Abner (1978) Holt, Rinehart & Winston ISBN 0-03-045516-2
• Li'l Abner Dailies - 27 volumes (1988–1998) Kitchen Sink (Fosdick first appears in Vol. 10, ISBN 0-87816-079-5)
• The Comics Journal #141 (April 1991) "Ideelism" in Comics and Law: Li'l Abner's Fearless Fosdick by Kyle Rothweiler
• Al Capp's Li'l Abner: The Frazetta Years - 4 volumes (2003–2004) Dark Horse Comics
• Li'l Abner: The Complete Dailies and Color Sundays Vol. 4: 1941–1942 (2012) IDW ISBN 1-61377-123-1
• Li'l Abner: The Complete Dailies and Color Sundays Vol. 5: 1943–1944 (2012) IDW ISBN 1-61377-514-8

Among Fosdick's initial appearances in Li'l Abner are:

• Aug. 30–Sept. 20, 1942 (first appearance of Fearless Fosdick and Lester Gooch)
• Nov. 22–Dec. 6, 1942
• May 30, 1943 (featuring Bomb Face)
• June 6–July 10, 1943 (featuring Stone Face)
• June 19, 1944 (rejecting the romantic advances of the Countess Wolfina)
• June 28, 1944
• July 12–15, 1944 (featuring Rattop)
• Aug. 26–Sept. 16, 1945 (featuring "The Hat")
• April 21, 1947
• May 1–31, 1947 (featuring Anyface)
• Jan. 30–March 21, 1948 (featuring the Chippendale Chair)
• July 4–Aug. 29, 1948 (first appearance of Fosdick Sr., "The Original")
• Dec. 25, 1949