Fearless Fosdick

Fearless Fosdick was a policeman who was the hero of the Li'l Abner character in Al Capp's Li'l Abner comic strip which appeared from 1934 to 1977.

Related Topics:
Al Capp - Li'l Abner - 1934 - 1977

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Fosdick was inspired by Dick Tracy, a similarly unflappable comic strip hero-cop and plain clothes detective. The strip-within-a-strip at times added much humour as when Abner mindlessly aped his role model (even styling his hair similarly by using the product Fosdick endorsed).

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Allegedly, Capp's work was not found to be particularly funny by Chester Gould, creator of Dick Tracy. This was not surprising since Fosdick was not very smart and behaved like a total fool. He would shoot innocent bystanders in a regular fashion and was always apprehending the wrong individuals while criminals went free.

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