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Alley Oop Sunday by VT Hamlin from 9/6/1953 Half Page Size
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This is an _ALLEY OOP__ SUNDAY PAGE BY VT HAMLIN_. FANTASTIC ARTWORK! VERY RARE AND HARD TO FIND ! This was cut from the original newspaper Sunday comics section from 1953. SIZE: 11 X 15 INCHES (HALF FULL PAGE). PAPER: SOME LIGHT TANNING, SMALL ARCHIVAL ... Read More
This is an _ALLEY OOP__ SUNDAY PAGE BY VT HAMLIN_. FANTASTIC ARTWORK! VERY RARE AND HARD TO FIND ! This was cut from the original newspaper Sunday comics section from 1953. SIZE: 11 X 15 INCHES (HALF FULL PAGE). PAPER: SOME LIGHT TANNING, SMALL ARCHIVAL REPAIRS ON BACKSIDE, OTHERWISE: EXCELLENT!: BRIGHT COLORS! (PLEASE CHECK SCANS) Please include $5.00 Total postage on any size order (USA) $20.00 International FLAT RATE. I combine postage on multiple pages. Check out my other auctions for more great vintage Comicstrips and Paper Dolls. THANKS FOR LOOKING!
_Alley Oop_
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Alley Oop
On April 9, 1939, Alley Oop was transported from the Stone Age into the 20th century.
Author(s)
V. T. Hamlin (creator)
Jack and Carole Bender
Current Status / Schedule
running
Launch Date
December 5, 1932
End Date
Â
Syndicate(s)
Newspaper Enterprise Association
Publisher(s)
Whitman, Dragon Lady Press, Kitchen Sink Press
Genre(s)
Humor, adventure, science fiction
_ALLEY OOP_ is a syndicated comic strip created in 1932 by American cartoonist V. T. Hamlin, who wrote and drew the popular and influential strip through four decades for Newspaper Enterprise Association. Hamlin introduced an engaging cast of characters, and his story lines entertained with a combination of adventure, fantasy, and humor.
Alley Oop, the strip's title character, was a sturdy citizen in the prehistoric kingdom of Moo. He rode his pet dinosaur Dinny, carried a stone war hammer, and wore nothing but a fur loincloth. He would rather fight dinosaurs in the jungle than deal with his fellow countrymen in Moo's capital and sole cave-town. Despite these exotic settings, the stories were often satires of American suburban life.
Contents
[hide]
* 1Major characters
* 2Minor characters
* 3Story
* 4Syndication history
* 5Licensing and promotion
* 6In popular culture
* 7Collections and reprints
* 8See also
* 9References
* 10Further reading
* 11External links
Major Characters[Edit]
Name
First Appeared
Description
Alley Oop
Aug 7, 1933
A time-traveling caveman
Ooola
Oct 10, 1933
Oop's pretty girlfriend
Foozy
Sep 21, 1933
Oop's pal, who talks in rhyme
Dinny
Aug 12, 1933
Oop's pet dinosaur
King Guzzle
Ruler of Moo
Queen Umpateedle
Sep 28, 1933
Queen of Moo
The Grand Wizer
Sep 23, 1933
Advisor to the king
Dr. Elbert Wonmug
Apr 7, 1939
20th-century scientist and inventor
G. Oscar Boom
Rival and partner to Wonmug
Ava
Dr. Wonmug's laboratory assistant
Minor Characters[Edit]
Name
First Appeared
Description
Jon
Apr 7, 1939
Dr. Wonmug's lab assistant
Dee
Apr 15, 1939
Dr. Wonmug's daughter
Story[Edit]
The first stories took place in the Stone Age and centered on Alley Oop's dealings with his fellow cavemen in the kingdom of Moo. Oop and his pals had occasional skirmishes with the rival kingdom of Lem, ruled by King Tunk. The names _Moo_ and _Lem_ are references to the fabled lost continents of Mu and Lemuria.
On April 5, 1939, Hamlin introduced a new plot device which greatly expanded his choice of storylines: A time machine, invented by 20th-century scientist Dr. Elbert Wonmug, who bore a rather suspicious resemblance to the Grand Wizer. The name Wonmug was a bilingual pun on Albert Einstein; "ein" is German for "one", and a "stein" is a form of drinking mug. Oscar Boom is derived from the words Nobel Prize, Oscar = Prize and Boom after Alfred Nobel (the inventor of dynamite).
Oop was transported to the 20th century by an early test of the machine (in the Sunday strip of April 9, 1939). He was hardly upset by the incident and apparently did not find modern society to be any different from his own. He then became Dr. Wonmug's man in the field, embarking on expeditions to various periods and places in history, such as Ancient Egypt, the England of Robin Hood, and the American frontier. Oop met such historical or mythical figures as Cleopatra, King Arthur, and Ulysses in his adventures. In addition to the time machine, other science fiction devices were introduced. Oop once drove an experimental electric-powered race car and, in the 1940s, he traveled to the Moon. During his adventures, he was often accompanied by his girlfriend Ooola, and by the sometimes-villainous, sometimes-heroic G. Oscar Boom (G.O. Boom), Dr. Wonmug's rival and occasional partner. Laboratory assistant Ava joined the cast in recent years.
Syndication History[Edit]
Dave Graue (1926-2001) retired from cartooning in August, 2001, and was killed in an automobile accident four months later
Alley Oop's name derived from the "let's go" phrase _ALLEZ, HOP!_, used as a cue by French gymnasts and trapeze artists.[1] Initially, _Alley Oop_ was a daily strip which had a run from December 5, 1932 to April 26, 1933. Beginning August 7, 1933, the strip was distributed by NEA syndicate, and the early material was reworked for a larger readership. The strip added a full page Sunday strip, on September 9, 1934. It also appeared in half-page, tabloid and half tab formats, which were smaller and/or dropped panels. During World War II, the full page vanished, and newspapers were offered a third of a page version that dropped panels, so more strips could fit on a page.
When Hamlin retired in 1971, his assistant Dave Graue took over. Graue had been assisting Hamlin since 1950 and had been creating the daily solo since 1966, although co-signed by Hamlin. The last daily signed by Hamlin appeared December 31, 1972, and his last signed Sunday was April 1, 1973. From his North Carolina studio, Graue wrote and drew the strip through the 1970s and 1980s until Jack Bender took over as illustrator in 1991. Graue continued to write the strip until his August 2001 retirement. Four months later, on December 10, 2001, the 75-year-old Graue was killed in Flat Rock, North Carolina when a dump truck hit his car. The current _Alley Oop_ Sunday and daily strips are drawn by Jack Bender and written by his wife Carole Bender.[2]
At its peak, _Alley Oop_ was carried by 800 newspapers. Today, it appears in more than 600 newspapers. The strip and albums were popular in Mexico (under the name _Trucutú_) and in Brazil (_Brucutu_). In 1995, _Alley Oop_ was one of 20 strips showcased in the Comic Strip Classics series of commemorative United States postage stamps.
Licensing and Promotion[Edit]
During the 1970s, _Alley Oop_ was adapted to animation as a segment of Filmation's Saturday morning cartoon series _Fabulous Funnies_, appearing intermittently alongside other comic strip favorites: _The Captain and the Kids_, _Broom-Hilda_, _Moon Mullins_, _Smokey Stover_and _Nancy_.
In 2008, "to celebrate Alley Oop's 75th year," the Benders conducted a contest for "Dinosaur Drawings from Our Young Readers"; the entry _Tyrannosaurus Rex_ holding a banner wishing "Happy Birthday" to Alley Oop, by 12-year-old Erin Holloway of Hammond, Louisiana, was published in the comic strip on 2009 January 17.[3]
In 2002, Dark Horse Comics produced a limited edition figure of the character in a brightly illustrated tin container. Alley Oop was issued as statue #28âpart of their line of Classic Comic Characters collectibles.
in Popular Culture[Edit]
The long-running success of the strip made the character a pop culture icon referred to in fiction, pop music, dance, and sports:
* Jerom is a caveman in the Belgian comic strip series _Suske en Wiske_ by Willy Vandersteen who was inspired by Alley Oop.[4]
* An educated Neanderthal known as "Alley Oop" is a character in Clifford D. Simak's science fiction novel _The Goblin Reservation,_ published in 1968.
* "O. Paley" (whose name was a loose anagram of "Alley Oop") was the central figure in Philip José Farmer's _The Alley Man_, a 1959 novella about the last Neanderthal who has survived into the 20th century.
* The character was the subject of the 1960 No. 1 single "Alley Oop", which was the only hit for the short-lived studio band The Hollywood Argyles. It was written and composed in 1957 by Dallas Frazier, and musicians on the record included Kim Fowley and Sandy Nelson. Lead vocalist Norm Davis was paid a one-time flat fee of $25, and he subsequently became a poet and poetry teacher in Rochester, New York. The song was later covered, most famously by The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, but also by both Dante & the Evergreens and George Thorogood & the Destroyers, and it was included in choreographer Twyla Tharp's 1970s ballet _Deuce Coupe._
*please note: collecting and selling comics has been my hobby for over 30 years. Due to the hours of my job i can usually only mail packages out on saturdays. I send out first class or priority mail which takes 2-5 days to arrive in the usa and air mail international which takes 5 -10 days or more depending on where you live in the world. I do not "sell" postage or packaging and charge less than the actual cost of mailing. I package items securely and wrap well. Most pages come in an archival sleeve with acid free backing board at no extra charge. If you are dissatisfied with an item. Let me know and i will do my best to make it right.
Many thanks to all of my 1,000's of past customers around the world.
enjoy your hobby everyone and have fun collecting!
_Alley Oop_
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Alley Oop
On April 9, 1939, Alley Oop was transported from the Stone Age into the 20th century.
Author(s)
V. T. Hamlin (creator)
Jack and Carole Bender
Current Status / Schedule
running
Launch Date
December 5, 1932
End Date
Â
Syndicate(s)
Newspaper Enterprise Association
Publisher(s)
Whitman, Dragon Lady Press, Kitchen Sink Press
Genre(s)
Humor, adventure, science fiction
_ALLEY OOP_ is a syndicated comic strip created in 1932 by American cartoonist V. T. Hamlin, who wrote and drew the popular and influential strip through four decades for Newspaper Enterprise Association. Hamlin introduced an engaging cast of characters, and his story lines entertained with a combination of adventure, fantasy, and humor.
Alley Oop, the strip's title character, was a sturdy citizen in the prehistoric kingdom of Moo. He rode his pet dinosaur Dinny, carried a stone war hammer, and wore nothing but a fur loincloth. He would rather fight dinosaurs in the jungle than deal with his fellow countrymen in Moo's capital and sole cave-town. Despite these exotic settings, the stories were often satires of American suburban life.
Contents
[hide]
* 1Major characters
* 2Minor characters
* 3Story
* 4Syndication history
* 5Licensing and promotion
* 6In popular culture
* 7Collections and reprints
* 8See also
* 9References
* 10Further reading
* 11External links
Major Characters[Edit]
Name
First Appeared
Description
Alley Oop
Aug 7, 1933
A time-traveling caveman
Ooola
Oct 10, 1933
Oop's pretty girlfriend
Foozy
Sep 21, 1933
Oop's pal, who talks in rhyme
Dinny
Aug 12, 1933
Oop's pet dinosaur
King Guzzle
Ruler of Moo
Queen Umpateedle
Sep 28, 1933
Queen of Moo
The Grand Wizer
Sep 23, 1933
Advisor to the king
Dr. Elbert Wonmug
Apr 7, 1939
20th-century scientist and inventor
G. Oscar Boom
Rival and partner to Wonmug
Ava
Dr. Wonmug's laboratory assistant
Minor Characters[Edit]
Name
First Appeared
Description
Jon
Apr 7, 1939
Dr. Wonmug's lab assistant
Dee
Apr 15, 1939
Dr. Wonmug's daughter
Story[Edit]
The first stories took place in the Stone Age and centered on Alley Oop's dealings with his fellow cavemen in the kingdom of Moo. Oop and his pals had occasional skirmishes with the rival kingdom of Lem, ruled by King Tunk. The names _Moo_ and _Lem_ are references to the fabled lost continents of Mu and Lemuria.
On April 5, 1939, Hamlin introduced a new plot device which greatly expanded his choice of storylines: A time machine, invented by 20th-century scientist Dr. Elbert Wonmug, who bore a rather suspicious resemblance to the Grand Wizer. The name Wonmug was a bilingual pun on Albert Einstein; "ein" is German for "one", and a "stein" is a form of drinking mug. Oscar Boom is derived from the words Nobel Prize, Oscar = Prize and Boom after Alfred Nobel (the inventor of dynamite).
Oop was transported to the 20th century by an early test of the machine (in the Sunday strip of April 9, 1939). He was hardly upset by the incident and apparently did not find modern society to be any different from his own. He then became Dr. Wonmug's man in the field, embarking on expeditions to various periods and places in history, such as Ancient Egypt, the England of Robin Hood, and the American frontier. Oop met such historical or mythical figures as Cleopatra, King Arthur, and Ulysses in his adventures. In addition to the time machine, other science fiction devices were introduced. Oop once drove an experimental electric-powered race car and, in the 1940s, he traveled to the Moon. During his adventures, he was often accompanied by his girlfriend Ooola, and by the sometimes-villainous, sometimes-heroic G. Oscar Boom (G.O. Boom), Dr. Wonmug's rival and occasional partner. Laboratory assistant Ava joined the cast in recent years.
Syndication History[Edit]
Dave Graue (1926-2001) retired from cartooning in August, 2001, and was killed in an automobile accident four months later
Alley Oop's name derived from the "let's go" phrase _ALLEZ, HOP!_, used as a cue by French gymnasts and trapeze artists.[1] Initially, _Alley Oop_ was a daily strip which had a run from December 5, 1932 to April 26, 1933. Beginning August 7, 1933, the strip was distributed by NEA syndicate, and the early material was reworked for a larger readership. The strip added a full page Sunday strip, on September 9, 1934. It also appeared in half-page, tabloid and half tab formats, which were smaller and/or dropped panels. During World War II, the full page vanished, and newspapers were offered a third of a page version that dropped panels, so more strips could fit on a page.
When Hamlin retired in 1971, his assistant Dave Graue took over. Graue had been assisting Hamlin since 1950 and had been creating the daily solo since 1966, although co-signed by Hamlin. The last daily signed by Hamlin appeared December 31, 1972, and his last signed Sunday was April 1, 1973. From his North Carolina studio, Graue wrote and drew the strip through the 1970s and 1980s until Jack Bender took over as illustrator in 1991. Graue continued to write the strip until his August 2001 retirement. Four months later, on December 10, 2001, the 75-year-old Graue was killed in Flat Rock, North Carolina when a dump truck hit his car. The current _Alley Oop_ Sunday and daily strips are drawn by Jack Bender and written by his wife Carole Bender.[2]
At its peak, _Alley Oop_ was carried by 800 newspapers. Today, it appears in more than 600 newspapers. The strip and albums were popular in Mexico (under the name _Trucutú_) and in Brazil (_Brucutu_). In 1995, _Alley Oop_ was one of 20 strips showcased in the Comic Strip Classics series of commemorative United States postage stamps.
Licensing and Promotion[Edit]
During the 1970s, _Alley Oop_ was adapted to animation as a segment of Filmation's Saturday morning cartoon series _Fabulous Funnies_, appearing intermittently alongside other comic strip favorites: _The Captain and the Kids_, _Broom-Hilda_, _Moon Mullins_, _Smokey Stover_and _Nancy_.
In 2008, "to celebrate Alley Oop's 75th year," the Benders conducted a contest for "Dinosaur Drawings from Our Young Readers"; the entry _Tyrannosaurus Rex_ holding a banner wishing "Happy Birthday" to Alley Oop, by 12-year-old Erin Holloway of Hammond, Louisiana, was published in the comic strip on 2009 January 17.[3]
In 2002, Dark Horse Comics produced a limited edition figure of the character in a brightly illustrated tin container. Alley Oop was issued as statue #28âpart of their line of Classic Comic Characters collectibles.
in Popular Culture[Edit]
The long-running success of the strip made the character a pop culture icon referred to in fiction, pop music, dance, and sports:
* Jerom is a caveman in the Belgian comic strip series _Suske en Wiske_ by Willy Vandersteen who was inspired by Alley Oop.[4]
* An educated Neanderthal known as "Alley Oop" is a character in Clifford D. Simak's science fiction novel _The Goblin Reservation,_ published in 1968.
* "O. Paley" (whose name was a loose anagram of "Alley Oop") was the central figure in Philip José Farmer's _The Alley Man_, a 1959 novella about the last Neanderthal who has survived into the 20th century.
* The character was the subject of the 1960 No. 1 single "Alley Oop", which was the only hit for the short-lived studio band The Hollywood Argyles. It was written and composed in 1957 by Dallas Frazier, and musicians on the record included Kim Fowley and Sandy Nelson. Lead vocalist Norm Davis was paid a one-time flat fee of $25, and he subsequently became a poet and poetry teacher in Rochester, New York. The song was later covered, most famously by The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, but also by both Dante & the Evergreens and George Thorogood & the Destroyers, and it was included in choreographer Twyla Tharp's 1970s ballet _Deuce Coupe._
*please note: collecting and selling comics has been my hobby for over 30 years. Due to the hours of my job i can usually only mail packages out on saturdays. I send out first class or priority mail which takes 2-5 days to arrive in the usa and air mail international which takes 5 -10 days or more depending on where you live in the world. I do not "sell" postage or packaging and charge less than the actual cost of mailing. I package items securely and wrap well. Most pages come in an archival sleeve with acid free backing board at no extra charge. If you are dissatisfied with an item. Let me know and i will do my best to make it right.
Many thanks to all of my 1,000's of past customers around the world.
enjoy your hobby everyone and have fun collecting!
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