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Fearless Fosdick is a long-running parody of Chester Gould 's Dick Tracy. It appeared intermittently as a strip-within-a-strip, in Al Capp 's satirical hillbilly comic strip, Li'l Abner (1934–1977). Li'l Abner's "ideel"
Fearless Fosdick: Created by Al Capp. With John Griggs, Gilbert Mack, Jean Carson. Fearless Fosdick, a pure hearted policeman, is faithful to his duties despite being underpaid and ill treated by his boss.
Fosdick – a parody of Dick Tracy – was Li’l Abner’s favourite detective and, according to him, the world’s greatest. The bumbling lantern-jawed Fosdick meant well and tried his best to be effective, but was frequently subject to abuse from his boss on the police force and made barely enough money to live on.
Fearless Fosdick was a comic strip-within-the-strip parody of Chester Gould's plainclothes detective, Dick Tracy. It first appeared in 1942 and ran intermittently in Li'l Abner over the next 35 years. Gould was also personally parodied in the series as cartoonist Lester Gooch — the small and occasionally deranged creator of Fearless Fosdick.
But if it includes fictional ones, the most violent can only be Al Capp's comic-within-a-comic, Fearless Fosdick. And why not? Fosdick is a parody of Tracy, grossly exaggerated for comic effect from his square-jawed profile to his propensity for mayhem beyond all reason.
Fosdick creates a monster in his police lab who has springs for legs - and can leap over buildings, wreaking havoc.
Fearless Fosdick is a long-running parody of Chester Gould's Dick Tracy. It appeared intermittently as a strip-within-a-strip, in Al Capp's satirical hillbilly comic strip, Li'l Abner (1934–1977).
The “ideel” of Li’l Abner, Detective Fearless Fosdick was Al Capp’s long-running parody of Chester Gould’s “Dick Tracy.” Debuting in 1942, Fearless Fosdick became so useful to Capp and so popular in his own right, that the strip-within-a- strip became a regular feature in “Li’l Abner” for over thirty years. Tracy fought ...
May 9, 2016 · In an unusual adventure involving two syndicates, Dick Tracy will be hosting the famous detective FEARLESS FOSDICK just before July 4 this year. In the 1940’s Al Capp, writer and artist of L’IL ABNER came up with the idea that Abner would be a fan of the incredible comic strip detective FEARLESS FOSDICK, a spoof of Chester Gould’s DICK TRACY.
Jan 23, 2011 · Fearless Fosdick. Al Capp’s Li’l Abner is rightly considered one of the greatest comic strips ever created, a devastatingly satirical, superbly illustrated, downright brilliant comedic masterwork which lampooned anything and everything America held dear and literally reshaped their popular culture.
