Li ' l Abner also features a comic strip-within-the-strip: Fearless Fosdick is a parody of Chester Gould's Dick Tracy.

Fearless Fosdick — and Capp's other spoofs like " Little Fanny Gooney " ( 1952 ) and " Jack Jawbreaker "— were almost certainly an early inspiration for Harvey Kurtzman's Mad Magazine, which began in 1952 as a comic book that specifically parodied other comics in the same distinctive style and subversive manner.

Other highlights of that decade included the 1942 debut of Fearless Fosdick as Abner's " ideel " ( hero ); the 1946 Lena the Hyena Contest, in which a hideous Lower Slobbovian gal was ultimately revealed in the harrowing winning entry ( as judged by Frank Sinatra, Boris Karloff and Salvador Dalí ) drawn by noted cartoonist Basil Wolverton ; and an ill-fated Sunday parody of Gone With the Wind that aroused anger and legal threats from author Margaret Mitchell, and led to a printed apology within the strip.

From the early 1940s to the late 1950s, there were scores of Sunday strip-style magazine ads for Cream of Wheat using the Abner characters, and in the 1950s, Fearless Fosdick became a spokesman for Wildroot Cream-Oil hair tonic in a series of daily strip-style print ads.

* Capp, Al, Al Capp's Fearless Fosdick: His Life and Deaths ( 1956 ) Simon & Schuster

* Capp, Al, Fearless Fosdick ( 1990 ) Kitchen Sink ISBN 0-87816-108-2

* Capp, Al, Fearless Fosdick: The Hole Story ( 1992 ) Kitchen Sink ISBN 0-87816-164-3

* Fearless Fosdick

In 1952, Abner reluctantly proposed to Daisy to emulate the engagement of his comic strip " ideel ," Fearless Fosdick.

Part of a virtual goon squad of comic mobsters that inhabited Li ' l Abner and Fearless Fosdick, the oafish Stanislouse alternated with other all-purpose underworld thugs, including " the Boys from the Syndicate " — Capp's euphemism for The Mob.

Li ' l Abner also featured a comic strip-within-the-strip: Fearless Fosdick was a parody of Chester Gould's plainclothes detective, Dick Tracy.

Gould was also personally parodied in the series as cartoonist Lester Gooch — the diminutive, much-harassed and occasionally deranged " creator " of Fearless Fosdick.

The style of the Fosdick sequences closely mimicked Tracy, including the urban setting, the outrageous villains, the galloping mortality rate, the crosshatched shadows, the lettering style — even Gould's familiar signature was parodied in Fearless Fosdick.

* Wildroot Cream-Oil: Fearless Fosdick was licensed for use in an advertising campaign for Wildroot Cream-Oil, a popular men's hair tonic.

Fearless Fosdick and other Li ' l Abner comic strip parodies, such as " Jack Jawbreaker!

By the time EC Comics published Mad # 1, Capp had been doing Fearless Fosdick for nearly a decade.

* Fearless Fosdick and the Case of the Red Feather — Public service giveaway issued by Red Feather Services, a forerunner of United Way ( 1951 )

In 1952, Fearless Fosdick proved popular enough to be incorporated into a short-lived TV series.

Fearless Fosdick premiered on Sunday afternoons on NBC ; 13 episodes featuring the Mary Chase marionettes were produced.

* Fearless Fosdick ( 1952 ) NBC ( series ) 13 episodes

* Li ' l Abner, Daisy Mae, Wolf Gal, Earthquake McGoon, Lonesome Polecat, Hairless Joe, Sadie Hawkins, Silent Yokum and Fearless Fosdick all found their way onto the painted noses of bomber aircraft during World War II and the Korean War, as did Kickapoo Joy Juice, Lena the Hyena and the Shmoo.

* Capp, Al, Al Capp's Fearless Fosdick: His Life and Deaths ( 1956 ) Simon & Schuster

* Capp, Al, Fearless Fosdick ( 1990 ) Kitchen Sink ISBN 0-87816-108-2

* Fearless Fosdick's Tune, composed and recorded by Umberto Fiorentino, appeared on the Brave Art / Columbia-Sony CD Things to Come ( 2002 ).

The two flotillas were the 12th Submarine Flotilla, consisting of HMS K3, K4, K6 and K7 led by HMS Fearless and the 13th Submarine Flotilla, led by HMS Ithuriel composed of K11, K12, K14, K17 and K22.

Fearless is a 1993 film directed by Peter Weir and written by Rafael Yglesias from his novel of the same name.

* 1419 – John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy is assassinated by adherents of the Dauphin, the future Charles VII of France.

* July 23 – WWII Italian planes damege the destroyer HMS Fearless ( H67 ) which has to be sunk by the British.

The nobles flocked in the thousands to the royal standard, and were reinforced by volunteers from nearly every part of Europe, the most important contingent being that of the French led by John the Fearless, son of Philip II, Duke of Burgundy.

* The adventurer Gerald the Fearless, vassal of the king of Portugal, seizes the city Evora by surprise.

* May 19 – Paris is captured by John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy.

* September 10 – John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy is assassinated by adherents of the Dauphin.

* Siege of Badajoz by Gerald the Fearless.

Emma ( – 6 March 1052 in Winchester, Hampshire ), was a daughter of Richard the Fearless, Duke of Normandy, by his second wife Gunnora.

Polanski was planning The Fearless Vampire Killers, which was being co-produced by Ransohoff, and had decided that he wanted the red-headed actress Jill St. John for the female lead.

A March 1967 article about Tate in Playboy magazine began, " This is the year that Sharon Tate happens ..." and included six nude or partially nude photographs taken by Roman Polanski during filming of The Fearless Vampire Killers.

His role in Fearless ( 1993 ) is recognized by some critics to be one of his best performances.

For example, the double marriage in 1385 at Cambrai of his son, John the Fearless, and his daughter, Marguerite, to Margaret of Bavaria and William of Bavaria, son and daughter of Albert, Count of the neighbouring Hainault and Holland, prepared the later union of Hainault and Holland with Burgundy and Flanders, as carried out by Philip's grandson, Philip the Good ; the marriages also inserted the new Valois Burgundy dynasty into the Wittelsbach network of alliances: the other daughters of Count Albert had married William I, Duke of Guelders and Wenceslaus, King of Bohemia ; their cousin, Isabeau of Bavaria, had married Charles VI of France, and become Queen of France.

On television, Harris was played by Leonard Rossiter in a 1978 BBC Play of the Week: Fearless Frank, or, Tidbits From The Life Of An Adventurer.

With the English taking over the country, John the Fearless sought to end the feud with the Royal family by negotiating with the Dauphin, the King's heir.

In 2005 the band was the subject of a documentary called Fearless Freaks, featuring appearances by other artists and celebrities such as Gibby Haynes, The White Stripes, Beck, Christina Ricci, Liz Phair, Juliette Lewis, Steve Burns, Starlight Mints, and Adam Goldberg.

* Felix the Fearless ( performed by Bob Stutt )-A tan Fraggle with green and gray hair who serves as head of the Fraggle Rescue Squad.

By the 14th century the county was surrounded on all parts by Burgundy's possessions and John of Burgundy, an illegitimate son of John the Fearless, was made bishop.

Earle is also the subject of two biographies, Steve Earle: Fearless Heart, Outlaw Poet, by David McGee and Hardcore Troubadour: The Life and Near Death of Steve Earle by Lauren St. John.

Only the forces of France led by John the Fearless assisted the armies of the King Sigismund of Hungary who was coordinating the fight.