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

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, 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 ).

" Boris is also quite proud of the fact that the nicest thing Fearless Leader ever did for him was sending a picture of himself to Boris inscribed " Drop Dead — Fearless Leader ".

" It became one of only five albums in the history of the Billboard 200 — along with Whitney Houston's Whitney ( 1987 ), Norah Jones's Feels Like Home ( 2004 ), Taylor Swift's Fearless ( 2008 ), and Susan Boyle's I Dreamed a Dream ( 2009 )— to debut at number one and remain at the top of the chart for a minimum of six consecutive weeks.

* 2008 — Cosmopolitan Malaysia magazine ’ s Fun, Fearless and Fabulous ( FFF ) Award 2008-Singer category

Examples of other media which take part in metafictiveness are Al Capp's Fearless Fosdick in Li ' l Abner, the Tales of the Black Freighter in Watchmen, or the Itchy and Scratchy Show within The Simpsons, as well as the computer game Myst in which the player represents a person who has found a book named Myst and been transported inside it.

Holt was the visual inspiration for Chester Gould's " Dick Tracy " and Al Capp's " Fearless Fosdick.

Some other notable film roles include her work in Cousins, Death Becomes Her, Immortal Beloved, and Fearless.

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.

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.

Since 2000, Fearless Records has released a series of CDs in which various rock bands perform covers of songs from other genres or time-periods.

* Some other tracks are present in alternate " crossfade " mixes, most notably on the segues between " See Emily Play " / " Several Species of Small Furry Animals " and " Fearless " / " Brain Damage ".

On a tip from Teresa, Joel, Fearless, Tom and a slowly falling apart David team up to convict a group of filmmakers inspiring homeless people to kill each other.

He has a cast-iron stomach ; and because of it was one of only three survivors of the ruling clique of Pottsylvania, the other two being his superiors Fearless Leader and Mister Big.

She and her best friend, Robert Redding, came up with the sexy punk / vampire look after producers rejected her original idea to look like Sharon Tate in The Fearless Vampire Killers.

Boris gets annoyed at Natasha for acting like such a celebrity, especially since Fearless Leader had ordered them to keep a low profile.

Born Carlotta Montijo in Los Angeles, California, Monti appeared in B-movies like Kiss of Araby ( 1933 ), Tarzan the Fearless ( 1933 ) and Night Cargo ( 1936 ), usually cast as an exotic temptress.

In 1994, AMC issued San Francisco, which balanced confessional tunes like " Fearless " and " The Thorn in My Side Is Gone " alongside more accessible offerings such as " Wish the World Away ," one of the band's biggest hits.

We meet Fearless, detective and Gulf War veteran with a list of things to do before he dies, and a habit of telling stories ; Joel, a detective who is still attempting to hide the suicide attempt of his wife Kelly ; Teresa, the kind-hearted paramedic who was on duty the night of said attempt ; David McNorris, the manipulative deputy district attorney ; reporter Andrea Little, his secret mistress ; Ray Hechler, a cop under suspicion of corruption ; and his young partner Tom, a mediocre officer who is frequently criticized by his father.

# Dauntless Little John ( Giovannino senza paura ; Fearless Giovannino )