Comics.com has been running the classic Li’l Abner strip for several years. I have made these 1950s Li’l Abners part of my morning for a couple of years now. It is great art, great story telling, and great social satire. Comics.com’s license ended with the 1955 series of the strip (right in the middle of a crisis). The strip was hung up in limbo for a few weeks and now they’ve started over.

Li’l Abner is now appearing in strips from 1934, when the comic first started. Li’l Abner, Daisy Mae and Ma and Pa Yokum all look very different. By the time they get back to 1955 I will have forgotten all of the plots so I can enjoy them again as much as the first time.

My Dad would send me to the corner store every Sunday morning with one dollar to buy The Sunday Daily News, The Herald Tribune, six hard rolls, and a pack of King Size Kents. I had to bring back the right change. I remember reading Li’l Abner then, but it was over my head. I liked Dick Tracey and Pogo.