The first tier of this 1949 LI'L ABNER Sunday strip is in one sense more remarkable than the FEARLESS FOSDICK story it leads into. While I've yet to read all of the strips from the strip's forty-year history, most of those I've read show Abner's true love Daisy Mae Scragg as a "shrinking violet" femme, who could not defend herself to save her life. This was in contrast to the many tough women in Al Capp's Abnerverse. So it's a real eyebrow-raiser when Capp does a gag in which Daisy cries out for help when assaulted, and when Abner pays no attention because he's reading the FOSDICK "comical strip," she simply punches out the big goon herself.
Given how few hillbilly girls show up here, I might as well add Clara Belle of POKEY OAKLEY here.
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