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.

Fosdick also achieved considerable exposure as the long-running advertising spokesman for Wildroot Cream-Oil, a popular men's hair product of the postwar period.

Fosdick's iconic profile on tin signs and advertising displays became a prominent fixture in barbershops across America — advising readers to " Get Wildroot Cream-Oil, Charlie!

In the US the original CBS syndication prints had a few variants to the original UK prints, after the brief title sequence the US prints would repeat this sequence but with " Brought to You By " and after the arrow strikes the tree the sponsors name " Wildroot Cream-Oil " superimposed, " Johnson and Johnson " sponsored episodes had a voice-over over the opening titles " Richard Greene in The Adventures of Robin Hood " and over the repeated sequence " presented by " followed by the names of two Johnson and Johnson products, images of which would appear over the shot of the arrow in the tree, a commercial featuring one of the products would then be shown, the Wildroot Cream-Oil sponsored episodes would then feature an animated commercial showing a Robin Hood type figure with lanck hair and a dinosaur.

There were two sponsors of the CBS syndicated screenings, Wildroot Cream-Oil ( a hair tonic company ) and Johnson and Johnson ( known in the UK and US for its baby powder ).

In 1952-53, Wildroot Cream-Oil was the sponsor.

: Sponsor: Wildroot Cream-Oil

It aired on CBS from November 25, 1944 to September 28, 1958, it had a variety of sponsors ( including Lava Soap, Wildroot Cream-Oil, Lucky Strike, Nescafe and Wrigley's ) over the years.

Simons ( using the call sign Axle ) accompanied the Greenleaf group, while the ground force commander, LTC Elliott P. " Bud " Sydnor, Jr. ( Wildroot ), was with the Redwine group.

" followed by a commercial for the next week's sponsor before the end titles would be shown, ( Wildroot Cream Oil and Johnson and Johnson sponsored alternate episodes ) the end credits start with the opening sequence, with Sandy Becker mentioning the sponsors name again, and the sponsors product appearing on screen through the end titles which are shown over the shot of the tree.

On the West Coast of the US, pomades such as Dixie Peach or Brylcreem, and tonics such as Wildroot Cream-oil were popular.

Tie-in with radio show The Adventures of Sam Spade, which Wildroot also sponsored.

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.

* 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.

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, composed by Bill Holman, was recorded live in 1954 by Vic Lewis and his Orchestra, featuring Tubby Hayes.

* 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

Although Capp's endorsement activities never rivaled Li ' l Abner's or Fearless Fosdick's, he was a celebrity spokesman in print ads for Sheaffer Snorkel fountain pens ( along with colleagues and close friends Milton Caniff and Walt Kelly ), and — with an irony that would become apparent later — a brand of cigarettes, ( Chesterfield ).

In April 1910, he was given the lead role in a new sketch, Jimmy the Fearless, or The Boy ' Ero.

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

The most famous of these free-lancers was Geraldo Sem Pavor (" Gerald the Fearless "), who captured Évora in 1165.

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.

Tate was optimistic: Eye of the Devil and The Fearless Vampire Killers were each due for release, and she had been signed to play a major role in the film version of Valley of the Dolls.

An edited version of The Fearless Vampire Killers was released, and Polanski expressed disgust at Ransohoff for " butchering " his film.

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.

Almost immediately after his accession to the title of Dauphin, Charles was forced to face the threat to his inheritance, being constrained to flee Paris in May 1418 after the soldiers of John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy attempted to capture the city.

He was said to be suffering from a severe case of agoraphobia, although the documentary Fearless Freaks states that he left because of his growing concerns over Drozd's drug use.

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.

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.

Charles of Orléans ( 24 November 1394, Paris – 5 January 1465, Amboise ) was Duke of Orléans from 1407, following the murder of his father, Louis I, Duke of Orléans, on the orders of John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy.

* Current afternoon drive host " Fearless " Fred Kennedy was the recipient of the inaugural 2009 Steve Young Award, recognizing rising Canadian radio stars under the age of 30

The 6 track EP contained edited versions of tracks off of Buhloone Mindstate but also featured the tracks " Sh. Fe. MC's " ( Shocking Female MC's ) which was a collaboration with A Tribe Called Quest, and Stix & Stonz which featured old-school hip hop artists Grandmaster Caz, Tito of Fearless Four, Whipper Whip, LA Sunshine and Superstar.

Arethusa was badly damaged, so at 10: 17 Fearless came alongside and both cruisers were stopped for 20 minutes while repairs were made to the boilers.

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

He was created Earl of Kendal, Earl of Richmond and Duke of Bedford in 1414 by his brother, King Henry V. On 14 June 1423, at Troyes, he married Anne, daughter of John the Fearless.

In Germany and the United States, the story was adapted into an animated feature in 1997 under the title The Fearless Four ( Die furchtlosen Vier ), though it varied considerably from the source material.

The show was adapted from Roman Polanski's 1967 movie The Fearless Vampire Killers, and initially directed by Polanski himself.