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Issue: Four Color #3
Publication Date: January 1942
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Issues: #3 of 1331 Issues (1412 Printings)
Title: Alley Oop
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagDell
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Dell Publishing Co., Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 9 (8 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
Disclose Notes: Indicia title is "ALLEY OOP, No. 3." No code number. Copyright 1937, 1938 by NEA Service, Inc.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color
Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U.S.; Standard Silver Age U.S.
Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior
Binding: Saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Format Notes:  
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Alley Oop
Character(s): Alley Oop; Oola; Foozy; Dinny (dinosaur); Eeny
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Eeny, the Dictator

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): V. T. Hamlin
Penciller(s): V. T. Hamlin
Inker(s): V. T. Hamlin
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Alley Oop
Character(s): Alley Oop; Foozy; King Guz; Queen Umpa; Oola; Dinny (dinosaur); Eeny
Synopsis: The women are running Moo. A stranger, Eeny from Jerooly, ingratiates herself with Queen Umpa. She plots to depose Umpa and declares herself dictator of Moo. She enlists Oop as an assistant. Oola and Foozy escape Moo with a group of resisters.
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Reprint Notes: from Alley Oop (NEA Service) daily newspaper strips from 1937 and 1938
Miscellaneous
Pages: 30
Disclose Notes: Story begins on inside front cover in black, red, and white. Each page has an Alley Oop logo at the top.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): V. T. Hamlin
Penciller(s): V. T. Hamlin
Inker(s): V. T. Hamlin
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Alley Oop
Character(s): Alley Oop; Dinny (dinosaur); Oola; Foozy; Queen Umpa; Eeeny
First Line: Well, Dinny, it looks as if our little war is over!
Synopsis: Evil dictator Eeny tries to trap Oop in his cave with a landslide. Oop escapes and then rescues Foozy from "the pit."
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Reprint Notes: from Alley Oop (NEA Service) daily newspaper strips from 1938
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): V. T. Hamlin
Penciller(s): V. T. Hamlin
Inker(s): V. T. Hamlin
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Alley Oop
Character(s): Alley Oop; Foozy; Eeny; Queen Umpa; Dootsy Bobo; Wur; Grand Wizer; Oola; Dinny (dinosaur)
First Line: Hey, you've got no time t'go chasin' now!
Synopsis: Foozy and Oop frighten dictator Eeny and her followers out of Moo, but three of Oop's old enemies show up. As they prepare to fight, a storm strikes, followed by an earthquake.
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Reprint Notes: from Alley Oop (NEA Service) daily newspaper strips from 1938
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): V. T. Hamlin
Penciller(s): V. T. Hamlin
Inker(s): V. T. Hamlin
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Alley Oop
Character(s): Alley Oop; Foozy; Oola; Dinny (dinosaur); Eeny; King Guz; Queen Umpa; Wur; Dootsy Bobo; Grand Wizer
First Line: Good honk, it's still rainin'!
Synopsis: After a flood forces all the inhabitants of Moo to higher ground, Oola leads the refugees back to Moo and Guz is crowned King again. Meanwhile, Oop and Foozy and their three enemies make a truce and are swept far away on a raft.
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Reprint Notes: from Alley Oop (NEA Service) daily newspaper strips from 1938
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): V. T. Hamlin
Penciller(s): V. T. Hamlin
Inker(s): V. T. Hamlin
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Alley Oop
Character(s): Alley Oop; Foozy; Dinny (dinosaur); Oola; Dootsy Bobo; Wur; Grand Wizer; King Guz; Queen Umpa; Eeny
First Line: Wotta mess! The only thing that looks natural is th' crown...
Synopsis: With Moo destroyed by the flood, King Guz decides to take the population to visit Sawalla for a while. Oola takes Dinny to go find Oop. Near the seashore, Oop and his group of castaways decide to call their new home "MooToo."
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Reprint Notes: from Alley Oop (NEA Service) daily newspaper strips from 1938
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): V. T. Hamlin
Penciller(s): V. T. Hamlin
Inker(s): V. T. Hamlin
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Alley Oop
Character(s): Alley Oop; Foozy; Dootsy Bobo; Wur; Grand Wizer; Eeny; King Guz; Queen Umpa
First Line: Listen to that - an' I thought we were all alone in this place!
Synopsis: Ex-dictator Eeny stumbles across "MooToo" and is chased away. For revenge she paints signs welcoming all settlers into Oop's new country. King Guz and the wanderers from Moo decide that MooToo is the place they should go.
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Reprint Notes: from Alley Oop (NEA Service) daily newspaper strips from 1938
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): V. T. Hamlin
Penciller(s): V. T. Hamlin
Inker(s): V. T. Hamlin
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Alley Oop
Character(s): Alley Oop; Foozy; Dootsy Bobo; Wur; Grand Wizer
First Line: ...yer mighty liable t'gitcher blasted head knocked off!
Synopsis: The truce between Oop and his former enemies breaks and the latter three are banished from MooToo, leaving just Oop and Foozy. The two decide to explore the inland swamps of their land.
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Reprint Notes: from Alley Oop (NEA Service) daily newspaper strips from 1938
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): V. T. Hamlin
Penciller(s): V. T. Hamlin
Inker(s): V. T. Hamlin
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Alley Oop
Character(s): Alley Oop; Foozy; King Guz; Oola; Dinny (dinosaur); Dootsy Bobo; Wur; Grand Wizer
First Line: Oh, oh - Down, quick! S'no tellin' what it'll do...
Synopsis: Oop and Foozy get trapped on a cliff with dinosaurs below. They have food and water and eventually scare the dinosaurs away. They are getting settled in when King Guz shows up with the entire population of Moo. Oop goes looking for Oola and Dinny, but Dootsy Bobo and Wur find her first. Oola gets saved by a unlikely hero, the Grand Wizer, and he and Oola take Dinny to find Oop and return to the new Moo.
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Reprint Notes: from Alley Oop (NEA Service) daily newspaper strips from 1938
Miscellaneous
Pages: 13
Disclose Notes: Last strip is dated 1938.07.19. Story continues on inside back cover in black, red, and white and concludes on back cover in color.

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