* Alley Oop ( disambiguation )

Iraan prides itself on being the birthplace of cartoon caveman Alley Oop, when creator Victor T. Hamlin worked in the oilfields.

Visitors to Iraan can visit the Alley Oop Museum found on Alley Oop Lane.

Hamlin, the creator of the comic strip Alley Oop.

Other comic strip character features in the rotation included Broom-Hilda, Dick Tracy, The Captain and the Kids, Alley Oop, Nancy and Sluggo and Smokey Stover.

The show helped revive and maintain interest in novelty hits from the 1950s and 1960s that received scant airplay on mainstream pop or oldies radio stations, including " Alley Oop " by the Hollywood Argyles, " The Ballad of Irving " by Frank Gallop, " The Battle of Kookamonga " by Homer and Jethro, " Monster Mash " by Bobby " Boris " Pickett, " Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah ( A Letter from Camp )" by Allan Sherman, " I Want My Baby Back " by Jimmy Cross, and " They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!

He read comic strips in the New York World-Telegram newspaper that his father brought home, including Our Boarding House, Alley Oop " and my favorite at the time, Wash Tubbs, with the ' soldier of fortune ' hero, Captain Easy ".

Alley Oop is a syndicated comic strip, created in 1932 by American cartoonist V. T. Hamlin, who wrote and drew the popular and influential strip through four decades for Newspaper Enterprise Association.

Alley Oop, the strip's title character, was a sturdy citizen in the prehistoric kingdom of Moo.

* Alley Oop – A time-traveling caveman

Initially, Alley Oop was a daily strip which had a run from December 5, 1932 to April 26, 1933.

The current Alley Oop Sunday and daily strips are drawn by Jack Bender and written by his wife Carole Bender.

At its peak, Alley Oop was carried by 800 newspapers.

In 1995, Alley Oop was one of 20 strips showcased in the Comic Strip Classics series of commemorative US postage stamps.

During the 1970s, Alley Oop was adapted to animation as a segment of Filmation's Saturday morning cartoon series Fabulous Funnies, appearing intermittently alongside other comic strip favorites: The Captain and the Kids, Broom-Hilda, Moon Mullins, Smokey Stover and Nancy.

In 2008, " to celebrate Alley Oop's 75th year ," the Benders conducted a contest for " Dinosaur Drawings from Our Young Readers "; the entry Tyrannosaurus Rex holding a banner wishing " Happy Birthday " to Alley Oop, by 12-year-old Erin Holloway of Hammond, Louisiana, was published in the comic strip on 2009 January 17.

Alley Oop was issued as statue # 28 — part of their line of Classic Comic Characters collectibles.

* An educated Neanderthal known as " Alley Oop " is a character in Clifford D. Simak's science fiction novel The Goblin Reservation ( 1968 ).

*" O. Paley " ( a quasi-anagram of " Alley Oop ") was the central figure in Philip José Farmer's The Alley Man, a 1959 novella about the last Neanderthal who has survived into the 20th century.

* The character was the subject of the 1960 # 1 single " Alley Oop ," which was the only hit for short-lived studio band The Hollywood Argyles.

* 1958: Frank King, Gasoline Alley

* Frank King, cartoonist of Gasoline Alley, was born in Cashton.

Gasoline Alley is a comic strip created by Frank King and currently distributed by Tribune Media Services.

The other streets of the Georgian town are Church Street and Baldwin Street, Alley Lane, Chapel Hill, Convent Hill, King Square, New Square and Mulberry Lane.

This influenced the choice of material played by early jazz groups: King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band, New Orleans Rhythm Kings and others included a large number of Tin Pan Alley popular songs in their repertoire, and record companies often used their power to dictate which songs were to be recorded by their artists.

* Frank King, Creator of the comic strip Gasoline Alley, grew up in Tomah.

The Wah Mee club operated illegally in a basement space on Maynard Alley South, just south of South King Street in Seattle's Chinatown.

They are featured in several soundtracks from video games such as the song " Death Alley " was on Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4, the song " Long Train Runnin '" appeared on Tony Hawk's Underground 2, and " Kill the King " recently appeared on Tony Hawk's Project 8.

Many celebrities such as Martha Stewart, Kevin Bacon, Susan Lucci, Gayle King, Kirstie Alley, Cameron Diaz, Betsey Johnson, Kelly Preston, Tinsley Mortimer, Lance Bass, Carol Alt, Keith Richards, Tony Hawk, Donald Trump and Andy Cohen were spotted in the crowd.

He worked as assistant cartoonist to Frank King at the Chicago Tribune on the popular comic strip " Gasoline Alley " and other cartoons, before returning to New Orleans in 1927 to become editorial cartoonist for the New Orleans Item.

*" Sherm Alley ", near Coliseum Street and Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard ( formerly Santa Barbara Avenue ), became a notorious drive-through drug market ( a " Sherm " is a PCP-laced cigar in U. S. slang ).

Frank Oscar King ( April 9, 1883 – June 24, 1969 ) was an American cartoonist best known for his popular, long-run comic strip Gasoline Alley.

" After King began the daily Gasoline Alley strip ( August 24, 1919 ), The Rectangle appeared sporadically and finally came to an end on February 8, 1920.

King often credited his wife, Delia, for providing a " woman's angle " to Gasoline Alley.

: Other precedents from America ’ s newspaper supplements were occasional experiments by Frank King in his Gasoline Alley Sunday pages where he would turn the whole page into one continuous landscape.

Samuel Carpenter and his brother Joshua erected the tavern in 1685 at the intersection of King ( later called Water ) Street and Tun Alley.

* 2008 documentary ' Shooting Robert King ' includes a scene where King mentions that he stood in the middle of Sniper Alley taking pictures unaware of where he was.

The first stories took place in the Stone Age and centered on Alley Oop's dealings with his fellow cavemen in the kingdom of Moo.

* Alley Oop in The Invasion of Moo ( 1935 ) ( Cocomalt Premium ) Whitman

* Alley Oop and Dinny in the Jungles of Moo A Big Little Book # 1473 ( 1938 ) Whitman

* Alley Oop and the Cave Men of Moo ( Pan-Am Premium ) ( 1938 ) Whitman