LOAC Essentials Volume 4: Alley Oop by V.T. HamlinMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
LOAC Essentials Volume 4: Alley Oop (1939) collects an entire year of Alley Oop comics by V.T. Hamlin.
One of my twitter peeps turned me on to Alley Oop and I read a couple strips in that Smithsonian Newspaper Comics book I read a while back.
Alley Oop is a burly caveman that beats people up. He reminds me of Popeye in that way and his bulbous forearms and calves add to that impression. In this volume, he's plucked from the past with his girlfriend Oola and brought to the 20th century and then the Trojan war. At the end of the volume, he's still in the past, with Hercules, Oola, Dr. Bronson, and Doctor G. Oscar Boom.
This is good shit. The fact that I read a year's worth of daily comics in a little over two days and didn't get tired of them is a testament to the quality. Funny adventure stories from forty years before I was born are where it's at. I'm not saying I'm definitely collecting the LOAC Essentials the same way I'm doing Fantagraphics EC Library but I'm not not saying that either.
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