Alley Oop

Alley Oop is a syndicated comic strip created December 5, 1932, by American cartoonist V. T. Hamlin, who wrote and drew the strip through four decades for Newspaper Enterprise Association. Hamlin introduced a cast of colorful characters and his storylines entertained with a combination of adventure, fantasy, and humor. Alley Oop, the strip's title character, is a sturdy citizen in the prehistoric kingdom of Moo. He rides his pet dinosaur Dinny, carries a stone axe, and wears only a fur loincloth.

Alley Oop
On April 9, 1939, Alley Oop was transported from the Stone Age into the 20th century.
Author(s)V. T. Hamlin (creator)
Dave Graue
Jack Bender and Carole Bender
Joey Alison Sayers and Jonathan Lemon
Current status/schedulerunning
Launch dateDecember 5, 1932
End date
Syndicate(s)Newspaper Enterprise Association
Publisher(s)Whitman, Dragon Lady Press, Kitchen Sink Press, Dark Horse
Genre(s)Humor, adventure, prehistoric, science fiction

Alley Oop's name was most likely derived from the French phrase allez, hop!. In the 1933 press release that accompanied the launching of the strip with its new distributor NEA, Hamlin was quoted as saying "I really can't recall just how I struck upon the name 'Alley Oop', although it might be from the fact that the name is a French term used by tumblers. Alley Oop really is a roughhouse tumbler."[1] The name of Alley's girlfriend, Ooola, was a play on a different French phrase, "Ooo-la-la."

Story

The first stories took place in the fictional "Bone Age" (similar to the Stone Age) and centered on Alley Oop's dealings with his fellow cavemen in the kingdom of Moo. Oop and his pals had occasional skirmishes with the rival kingdom of Lem, ruled by King Tunk. The names Moo and Lem are references to the fabled lost continents of Mu and Lemuria.

On April 5, 1939, Hamlin introduced a new plot device which greatly expanded his choice of storylines: A time machine was invented by 20th-century scientist Dr. Elbert Wonmug; the name Wonmug was a pun on Albert Einstein, as "ein" is German for "one" and a "stein" is a type of drinking mug.

Oop was transported to the 20th century by an early test of the machine (in the daily strip of April 8 and the Sunday strip of April 9, 1939). He became Dr. Wonmug's man in the field, embarking on expeditions to various periods in history, such as Ancient Egypt, the England of Robin Hood, and the American frontier. Oop met historical or mythical figures such as Cleopatra, King Arthur, and Ulysses in his adventures. In addition to the time machine, other science-fiction devices were introduced. Oop once drove an experimental electric-powered race car, and he has space-traveled to Venus, the moon (twice), and "Earth-Two". During his adventures, he was often accompanied by his girlfriend Ooola and by the sometimes-villainous sometimes-heroic G. Oscar Boom (G.O. Boom). Laboratory assistant Ava Peckedge joined the cast in 1986.

Syndication history

Dave Graue, Hamlin's successor

Alley Oop was first distributed by the small syndicate Bonnet-Brown on December 5, 1932, but this run ended on April 26, 1933 when Bonnet-Brown became defunct. NEA picked up the strip and, starting on August 7, 1933, the earlier material was reworked for a larger readership. A full-page Sunday strip was added on September 9, 1934; the strip also appeared in half-page, tabloid, and half-tab formats, which were smaller and/or dropped panels. During World War II, newspapers eliminated full-page comics to save paper; starting on December 1, 1940, Alley Oop's Sunday comic was offered in a smaller format which could, at an editor's discretion, be further reconfigured to save space. Daily comics were first reduced in size on April 20, 1942, and have become smaller since then, but they have been appearing in color since September 15, 2008.

When Hamlin retired in 1971, his assistant Dave Graue took over. Graue had been assisting Hamlin since 1950 (starting as a letterer) and creating the daily solo since July 15, 1966, although co-signed by Hamlin. Hamlin's last signed daily strip appeared December 31, 1972, and his last signed Sunday was April 1, 1973. Through the 1970s and 1980s, Graue wrote and drew the strip from his North Carolina studio. On December 30, 1991, Jack Bender took on the finishing art chores of the strip; that is, Graue wrote and pencilled each strip, after which Bender inked and lettered it (and colored it, for Sunday strips).[2] Starting September 3, 2001, Alley Oop Sunday and daily strips were drawn entirely by Jack Bender and written by his wife Carole Bender.[3] (On December 10, 2001, the 75-year-old Graue was killed in Flat Rock, North Carolina, when a dump truck hit his car.) In January 2019, writer Joey Alison Sayers and artist Jonathan Lemon took over the comic.[4]

At its peak, Alley Oop was carried by 800 newspapers. Today, it appears in more than 600 newspapers. The strip and collections of it were popular in Mexico (under the name Trucutú) and in Brazil (Brucutu). In 1995, Alley Oop was one of 20 strips showcased in the Comic Strip Classics series of commemorative United States postage stamps.

Licensing and promotion

In 1978, 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.[5]

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 January 17, 2009.[6][7]

In 2002, Dark Horse Comics produced a limited-edition figure of the character in a brightly illustrated tin container. Alley Oop was issued as statue #28 — part of their line of Classic Comic Characters collectibles.

The long-running success of the strip made the character a pop culture icon referred to in fiction, pop music and dance:

Main characters

A main character is one who is a fixture of a particular setting. For example, King Guz and Queen Umpa are always present in ancient Moo, even if they are not central to every storyline.

Although Ooola is "Alley Oop's girlfriend", and their jealousy of potential rivals has driven many storylines, they rarely showed each other affection prior to the Benders' run. (More often, Ooola did serious violence to Alley's cranium.) For the first 69 years of the strip's existence, the two kissed only twice: once on August 14, 1945, as a last goodbye when they believed they were going to be drowned, and again on September 28, 1999 when Ooola pecked Alley on the cheek as thank-you for a timely rescue. The Benders made the couple more physically affectionate and even brought them to the altar—but, when they reached that point, Alley and Ooola decided that they made better friends than spouses.

Doctor Wonmug was drawn to look identical to the Grand Wizer. By the end of Dave Graue's tenure, Wonmug and the Wizer had been in each other's company five times; in each instance, the story was told as though the two characters had never met before, and the characters' identical appearances were remarked upon (May 26, 1945; December 7, 1960; July 17, 1963; July 30, 1965; September 24, 1970). The Benders addressed the similarity twice (on October 6, 2006 and March 23, 2007) by subverting it; that is, the other characters exclaimed that the two looked the same, but both the Wizer and Wonmug scoffed and claimed not to see any resemblance.

NameFirst AppearedDescription
Alley OopAugust 7, 1933A time-traveling caveman
DinnyAugust 12, 1933Oop's pet dinosaur (his species is identified as a "Cartoonosaurus" in the daily strip on April 12, 1968)
King GuzzleSeptember 8, 1933Ruler of Moo
FoozySeptember 21, 1933Oop's pal, who talks in rhyme
Pooky, the Grand WizerSeptember 23, 1933Advisor to the king
Queen UmpateedleSeptember 28, 1933Queen of Moo
OoolaOctober 10, 1933Oop's girlfriend
Dr. Elbert WonmugApril 7, 193920th-century scientist and inventor (In the daily strip on June 21, 1969, his birthdate is given as May 10, 1900)
G. Oscar BoomFebruary 28, 1940Rival and partner to Wonmug
Ava PeckedgeAugust 21, 1986Dr. Wonmug's laboratory assistant

Supporting characters

New stories typically introduced new characters, especially when those stories were set outside of Moo. Therefore, a "supporting character" is one who has been featured across multiple storylines.

Eeny, the dictator, was a transparent representation of Hitler. In her first story, in 1937, she recruited "hairshirts", taught them a familiar arm-raised salute, and installed herself as "dictator" while leaving Queen Umpa as a figurehead ruler. In her second story, in 1942, she and her "Moozys", headed by the armbanded "Moostapo", overran the country and herded its citizens into "concentration caves."

The Lemian King was inconsistent during Hamlin's run. King Tunk first appeared in 1934 as a bald man with a stubbled chin, and he remained so through 1938. In 1944, this same character was named Wur rather than Tunk, although Sawalla's King Wur had previously been featured in storylines alongside King Tunk. When Lem was re-introduced in 1954, its king was named Tunk but was clean-shaven and had a full head of hair; the Lemian king returned to his original design in 1959 but was again called Wur. He regained the name Tunk in 1961 (giving his full name as "Clab Tunk" on May 22, 1961) and from then on it stuck.

NameFirst AppearedDescription
WootietootSeptember 28, 1933Guz and Umpa's daughter
Clab TunkMarch 21, 1934Ruler of Lem
Dootsy BoboMay 7, 1934Moovian mischief-maker and rival for Ooola's affections
WurMay 26, 1936Ruler of Sawalla
EenyDecember 28, 1937Stone-age analog for Hitler
ZelSeptember 3, 1938Ooola's cousin and Foozy's wife (married on February 20, 1939)
JonApril 7, 1939Dr. Wonmug's lab assistant
DeeApril 15, 1939Dr. Wonmug's daughter
G.I. TumJune 24, 1939Federal agent
Dr. Amos BronsonJuly 22, 1939Historian and Wonmug's friend
Moe, Beau, and JoeJanuary 27, 1943Foozy's triplets
EustaceNovember 20, 1953Alley's warhorse
Sonny BoyJune 11, 1954Dinny's descendant, a twenty-or-so-million-year-old dragon
BrunnehildeAugust 11, 1954Doc Wonmug's barbarian love interest
Jack EastFebruary 25, 1957Riverboat gambler
Oxy Twenty-FourJanuary 14, 1959An ancient moon-man
The GinkSeptember 15, 1970A mind-reading Bigfoot
TokoJanuary 31, 1972a young Moovian boy
FerdyFebruary 19, 1978a good-natured Moovian with much brawn but little brain
Wanda the Witch ("Granny")January 18, 1979A practitioner of magic arts and the Wizer's peer
Dave WoweeSeptember 21, 2002Doc Wonmug's great-great-great-grandson from 2145

Collections and reprints

Many Alley Oop daily and Sunday strips have been reprinted. The following titles are all by V. T. Hamlin except for Alley Oop by Dave Graue and The Menomonee Falls Guardian Special. Although Comics Revue has also reprinted Alley Oop, none of its issues are dedicated exclusively to Alley Oop.

Books

TitlePublication YearPublisherDates reprinted
Alley Oop: The Sawalla Chronicles1983Ken Pierce Inc.April 10 – August 28, 1936 (a few strips omitted)
Alley Oop by Dave Graue1983TOR PublicationsMay 25, 1979 – June 12, 1982 (selected stories)
Alley Oop Volume 1: The Adventures of a Time-Traveling Caveman1990Kitchen Sink PressJuly 20, 1946 – June 20, 1947
Alley Oop Volume 2: The Sphinx and Alley Oop1991Kitchen Sink PressJune 21, 1947 – August 30, 1948
Alley Oop Volume 3: First Trip to the Moon1995Kitchen Sink PressAugust 31, 1948 – November 9, 1949
Alley Oop: Book 42003Manuscript PressNovember 10, 1949 – November 10, 1950
The Library of American Comics Essentials Volume 4: Alley Oop 1939: The First Time Travel Adventure 2014Idea & Design Works' The Library of American ComicsMarch 6, 1939 – March 23, 1940
Alley Oop: The Complete Sundays Volume 12014Dark Horse1934–1936
Alley Oop: The Complete Sundays Volume 22014Dark Horse1937–1939

Magazines

TitlePublication YearPublisherDates reprinted
The Menomonee Falls Guardian Special #11973Street EnterprisesOctober 2 – December 22, 1973
The Menomonee Falls Guardian Special #21974Street EnterprisesDecember 23, 1973 – March 16, 1974 (December 25 omitted)
The Menomonee Falls Guardian Special #31974Street EnterprisesMarch 19 – June 8, 1974
Alley Oop #1: The Legend Begins1987Dragon Lady PressAugust 7, 1933 – January 27, 1934
Alley Oop #2: Enter the Time Machine1987Dragon Lady PressMarch 6, 1939 – October 25, 1939
Alley Oop #3: Oop vs. Hercules1988Dragon Lady PressOctober 26, 1939 – July 30, 1940
Alley Oop Magazine #0 (Introductory issue)1997Spec ProductionsDecember 5, 1932 – January 7, 1933; August 7 – September 2, 1933; December 19, 1993 – February 20, 1994 (Sundays); September 15 – November 8, 1980
Alley Oop Magazine #1Spec ProductionsJuly 3 - September 28, 1940; February 27 - March 27, 1994 (Sundays); November 10 - December 25, 1980
Alley Oop Magazine #2Spec ProductionsJanuary 9 – March 2, 1933; August 4 – December 22, 1996 (Sundays); September 30 – November 25, 1940
Alley Oop Magazine #3Spec ProductionsNovember 26, 1940 – May 31, 1941
Alley Oop Magazine #41998Spec ProductionsMarch 3–21, 1933; April 10 – September 18, 1994; May 30 – August 5, 1983; June 3 – July 7, 1941
Alley Oop Magazine #51998Spec ProductionsAugust 8 – October 11, 1983; July 9 – October 20, 1941
Alley Oop Magazine #61999Spec ProductionsOctober 21, 1941 – April 21, 1942
Alley Oop Magazine #72000Spec ProductionsApril 21 – August 13, 1942; January 16 – March 26, 1991
Alley Oop Magazine #82000Spec ProductionsAugust 14, 1942 – January 16, 1943; March 27 – April 15, 1991
Alley Oop Magazine #92000Spec ProductionsJanuary 16 – May 1, 1943; April 16 – July 6, 1991
Alley Oop Magazine #102000Spec ProductionsMay 3 – October 27, 1943
Alley Oop Magazine #112001Spec ProductionsOctober 28, 1943 – May 13, 1944
Alley Oop Magazine #122001Spec ProductionsMay 15 – November 21, 1944
Alley Oop Magazine #132002Spec ProductionsDecember 2, 1981 – February 6, 1982; April 3–24, 1933; November 22, 1944 – January 27, 1945
Alley Oop Magazine #142002Spec ProductionsJanuary 29 – June 30, 1944; February 10 – March 31, 2002
Alley Oop Magazine #15Spec ProductionsJuly 2, 1945 – January 11, 1946
Alley Oop Magazine #162003Spec ProductionsJanuary 12 – July 19, 1946
Alley Oop Magazine #172003Spec ProductionsNovember 11, 1950 – May 21, 1951
Alley Oop Magazine #182004Spec ProductionsMay 22 – December 31, 1951
Alley Oop Magazine #192004Spec ProductionsJanuary 1 – July 5, 1952
Alley Oop Magazine #202004Spec ProductionsJuly 7 – December 23, 1952
Alley Oop Magazine #212005Spec ProductionsDecember 24, 1952 – June 13, 1953
Alley Oop Magazine #222006Spec ProductionsJune 15 – December 31, 1953
Alley Oop Magazine #232006Spec ProductionsJanuary 1 – June 30, 1954
Alley Oop Magazine #242006Spec ProductionsJuly 1 – December 30, 1954
Alley Oop Magazine #252007Spec ProductionsJanuary 1 – July 1, 1955
Alley Oop Magazine #262007Spec ProductionsJuly 1 – December 31, 1955
Alley Oop Magazine #272008Spec ProductionsJanuary 1 – June 30, 1956
Alley Oop Magazine #282008Spec ProductionsAugust 2, 1956 – January 1, 1957
Alley Oop Magazine #342013Spec ProductionsJuly 1959 – January 1960

Comics

Various newspaper strips have also been reprinted in comic-book form. The comic books tended to alter the original reading experience by colorizing the strips as well as rearranging, dropping, cropping or extending panels to fit the format. Recap and exposition panels, as well as strips that served as diversions from the perceived "main story" (such as an interlude of Alley and Foozy discovering how to drive a car while Dr. Wonmug fixed the time machine), were typically excised. The Antarctic Press series featured a combination of original material, direct reprints of newspaper comics, and redrawn adaptations of newspaper-strip stories; these reprints and adaptations are noted in the list of storylines.

IssuePublication DatePublisherDates covered
Four Color Comic #31938Dell Publishing Co.December 11, 1937 – July 19, 1938
Alley Oop #10September 1947Visual Editions Inc.April 15 – November 9, 1935
Alley Oop #11December 1947Visual Editions Inc.November 3 – December 26, 1939; March 15 – April 26, 1940
Alley Oop #12March 1948Visual Editions Inc.
Alley Oop #13June 1948Visual Editions Inc.April 12 – June 21, 1941; July 12 – August 2, 1941
Alley Oop #14September 1948Visual Editions Inc.August 4 – September 22, 1941; October 8 – November 24, 1941
Alley Oop #15December 1948Visual Editions Inc.October 25, 1940 – March 21, 1941
Alley Oop #16March 1949Visual Editions Inc.April 29, 1940 to ?
Alley Oop #17June 1949Visual Editions Inc.August 16 – November 24, 1944
Alley Oop #18October 1949Visual Editions Inc.July 29, 1946 to ?
Alley Oop #1November 1955Argo Publishing Co.June 15 – September 9, 1953 + October 24, 1953
Alley Oop #2January 1956Argo Publishing Co.September 22, 1953 to ?
Alley Oop #3March 1956Argo Publishing Co.March 22 – June 5, 1954
Alley Oop Adventures #1August 1998Antarctic PressTwo original stories, two adaptations, and one reprint
Alley Oop Adventures #2October 1998Antarctic PressOne original story; three original one-page features; two adaptations
Alley Oop Adventures #3December 1998Antarctic PressTwo original stories, later adapted into Sunday strips; one original one-page feature; one reprint; one adaptation
Alley Oop Adventures #1September 1999Antarctic PressOne original story, later published as Sunday strips; two reprints; one Jack Bender tryout strip, later published as a Sunday strip
Alley Oop Adventures #2December 1999Antarctic PressThree original stories, two later adapted into Sunday strips; one reprint; one Jack Bender tryout strip
Alley Oop Adventures #3March 2000Antarctic PressTwo adaptations, one reprint

Original publications

The following publications were original material, not newspaper reprints:

  • Alley Oop and Dinny A Big Little Book No. 763 (1935) Whitman Publishing
  • 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 Missing King of Moo A Penny Book (1938) Whitman
  • Alley Oop and the Cave Men of Moo (Pan-Am Premium) (1938) Whitman
  • Alley Oop and the Kingdom of Foo (Pan-Am Premium) (1938) Whitman
  • Alley Oop: Taming a Dinosaur (Pan-Am Premium) (1938) Whitman
  • Alley Oop sheet music (1960) Kavelin-Maverick Music (USA), Leeds Music (Australia, New Zealand)
  • Alley Oop Coloring Book (1962) Treasure Books
  • Alley Oop comic book, issues 1–3 (1963) Dell Publishing Co.
  • Alley Oop Fun Book (1981) Happy House Books

See also

Sunday storylines

The following table is a list of storylines featured in the Sunday comic strips. The ending of a storyline frequently overlapped with the beginning of the next, and actual story titles were provided only on a few occasions (e.g., "Alley Oop at Crummystone Manor" or "The Perpetual Motion Machine"). The dates and story descriptions given here are, therefore, not official or definitive delineations but may serve as a rough index to the history of the strip. Most of the actual Sunday strips from November 1996 onward are available on comics.com.

The Sunday strips' continuity ran separately from the daily strips until 2006 (with two exceptions, as noted in the list). In the first few years following the time machine's introduction, Hamlin shifted the setting of the Sunday strip, sometimes abruptly, to match that of the daily storyline, but the Sunday and daily strips were entirely different stories, told in parallel, and they did not overlap. For example, when Oop was first brought to the 20th century, the Sunday storyline showed him doing little more than figuring out modern clothing and calmly running a few errands, whereas the daily strip had him roving all around the countryside in cars, trains, and planes, wreaking havoc and making headlines as the "Phantom Ape". If the same events did occur in both continuities, they were always told differently: before the first time-machine story, for example, Alley Oop acquired the Moovian royal jewels; however, in the Sunday strip, Guz voluntarily installed Alley as king (so he could take a vacation), while in the daily strip Alley took the throne by force (as revenge for Guz stealing and eating Dinny's egg).

After 1961, the Sunday strips featured no time travel but were set exclusively in Moo. It is possible that, from 1961 onward, the Sunday stories were meant to have taken place prior to Alley having met the time-machine crew because, in these strips, Alley was shown to be unaware of concepts he had already encountered in the time-travel storylines, such as shoes, or snow, or bowling. Starting in January 2006, through the Benders' retirement in mid-2019, Sunday strips were not new stories but a summary of the previous week's daily strips. Since late 2019, the new artistic team has made the Sunday strips "Little Oop", portraying a young Alley Oop in a land of Moo that is anachronistic in a way similar to the Flintstones' "modern stone age".

Topper strips

Alley Oop's Sunday page had different toppers starting with the first strip and running through 1944:

  • Dinny's Family Album, September 9, 1934 – February 7, 1937
  • Foozy's Limericks, February 21 – May 16, 1937
  • Prehistoric Cut-Outs in Modern Dress, May 23 – September 12, 1937
  • Fragments, September 19, 1937 – April 9, 1939
  • Scientists Say, April 16 – July 2, 1939)
  • Odds 'n' Ends, July 9, 1939 – April 21, 1940
  • Story of a Dinosaur Egg, April 28 – August 25, 1940
  • Foozy's Foolosophies, September 1, 1940 – September 5, 1943
  • The characters argue over who gets to use the space (breaking the fourth wall), September 12, 1943 – January 2, 1944
  • Buy War Bonds cartoon advertisements, January 9 – August 27, 1944[9]

1930s

Start DateEnd DateDescription
September 9, 1934October 7, 1934Alley and Foozy start a trading business (Through the end of 1937, many storylines are driven by the two partners' profit schemes for this business.)
October 14, 1934November 11, 1934Guz wants a dinosaur
November 18, 1934Foozy gives love advice
November 25, 1934Alley solves the rock pile
December 2, 1934December 9, 1934Foozy promotes the Big Fight
December 16, 1934February 3, 1935Ama, the land of wild women
February 10, 1935Foozy the debt collector
February 17, 1935Oop's animal trap
February 24, 1935March 3, 1935Catching a merawow
March 10, 1935Alley and Foozy play axe-golf
March 17, 1935Foozy sells some beads
March 24, 1935April 7, 1935Umpa goes on a diet
April 14, 1935May 19, 1935Alley's new pet dinosaur
May 26, 1935June 9, 1935Alley courts Ooola
June 16, 1935Guz's police report
June 23, 1935June 30, 1935Alley goes fishing
July 7, 1935July 14, 1935Alley's sore thumb
July 21, 1935August 18, 1935gag strips
August 25, 1935September 29, 1935Alley and Foozy have a fire sale
October 6, 1935November 3, 1935Guz's new robe
November 10, 1935January 13, 1936Oop, king of Oompahlan
January 20, 1936February 10, 1936gag strips
February 17, 1936March 15, 1936Dinosaur hunt
March 22, 1936Axe-golf with Guz
March 29, 1936May 3, 1936Dinosaur egg pranks
May 10, 1936June 14, 1936gag strips
June 21, 1936August 2, 1936Munitions profiteering in war with Lem
August 9, 1936Umpa's melon shelf
August 16, 1936August 23, 1936Brontosaurus hunt
August 30, 1936Dinny's day in the jungle
September 7, 1936September 13, 1936Foozy lassos a pterodactyl
September 20, 1936Posies are food for the soul
September 27, 1936October 4, 1936Alley annoys Guz and the Wizer
October 11, 1936October 25, 1936Foozy vs the Wizer
November 1, 1936December 27, 1936Foozy's price war
January 3, 1937January 10, 1937Guz's toothache
January 17, 1937January 24, 1937Fishing for dinosaurs
January 31, 1937March 7, 1937Crossing crocodile creek
March 14, 1937March 28, 1937Alley feeds the Moovian army
April 4, 1937June 20, 1937Alley's prize fight
June 27, 1937October 10, 1937Foozy, tax criminal
October 17, 1937May 8, 1938The Royal Moovian Circus
May 15, 1938June 12, 1938War with Lem over entertainment fees
June 19, 1938July 3, 1938Oop's imaginary jail sentence
July 10, 1938Fishing with Foozy
July 17, 1938November 13, 1938G-man Foozy and Two-Axe Oop: Moovian cop
November 20, 1938December 11, 1938The football game: Moo vs Lem
December 18, 1938January 15, 1939Oop vs Guz
January 22, 1939March 26, 1939gag strips
April 2, 1939July 16, 1939Oop meets the 20th century
July 23, 1939September 17, 1939Alley Oop, millionaire
September 24, 1939October 22, 1939The skeptics visit Moo
October 29, 1939November 5, 1939Oop gets a mule
November 12, 1939December 17, 1939Escape from Troy

1940s

Start DateEnd DateDescription
December 24, 1939March 24, 1940Sailing with Eneas
March 31, 1940June 30, 1940A visit to Amazonia
July 7, 1940October 20, 1940Oop meets Cleopatra
October 27, 1940November 17, 1940200 million BC: Earth's second moon explodes
November 24, 1940April 20, 1941Oop returns to Cleopatra
April 27, 1941September 28, 1941Oop, pirate captain
October 5, 1941October 26, 1941Dinny gets stuck in the time-field
November 2, 1941February 1, 1942Castle siege in 12th-century England
February 8, 1942March 22, 1942The great tournament
March 29, 1942April 26, 1942Alley vs King John's troops
May 3, 1942May 17, 1942Alley tries to enlist in WWII
May 24, 1942June 14, 1942Oop turns invisible
June 21, 1942September 27, 1942Alley runs off to fight the war
October 4, 1942November 22, 1942Making movies in Moo
November 29, 1942January 10, 1943Oop the Hollywood star
January 17, 1943February 7, 1943Alley breaks his leg
February 14, 1943May 9, 1943Ancient Atlantis
May 16, 1943July 25, 1943Mystery of the haunted house
August 1, 1943September 19, 1943Spook hunting, round two
September 26, 1943December 26, 1943Beach vacation
January 2, 1944March 19, 1944Dr. Goo's shrinking potion
March 26, 1944July 30, 1944Rollo the brontosaurus
August 6, 1944August 20, 1944Oop helps with war production
August 27, 1944October 15, 1944Oop vs the USPS
October 22, 1944November 5, 1944Alley gets sick
November 12, 1944May 27, 1945Alley Oop at Crummystone Manor
June 3, 1945September 23, 1945The Perpetual Motion Machine (the time-machine's viewscreen is introduced on September 16)
September 30, 1945November 18, 1945Alley meets the Teutonic Cimbrians
November 25, 1945January 6, 1946Alley brings home Willie the horse
January 13, 1946February 3, 1946Love and marriage in Moo
February 10, 1946March 10, 1946Alley and Foozy on the town
March 17, 1946March 24, 1946Dinny vs Willie
March 31, 1946June 2, 1946(these are integrated with daily-strip continuity)
June 9, 1946June 16, 1946Alley retrieves Willie
June 23, 1946August 11, 1946Alley rewires the time machine
August 18, 1946November 24, 1946Alley meets Aladdin
December 1, 1946December 22, 1946Santa's weight-loss program
December 29, 1946January 19, 1947Alley's flying carpet ride
January 26, 1947May 18, 1947Ooola, the Witch of Red Tower
May 25, 1947August 10, 1947By rocket to Antarctica
August 17, 1947September 7, 1947Ham the Hermit's Moovian revolution
September 14, 1947November 2, 1947Alley and Oscar's prank war
November 9, 1947November 23, 1947Alley and the steam shovel
November 30, 1947January 4, 1947Alley meets Vikings
January 11, 1948April 11, 1947Wu Sing's dragon
April 18, 1948May 30, 1947Oop and the beanstalk
June 6, 1948August 1, 1947Oop loses his punch
August 8, 1948October 3, 1947The dragon in Moo
October 10, 1948October 31, 1947Alley becomes invisible
November 7, 1948January 23, 1949Invisible Oop fights alongside King Arthur
January 30, 1949February 13, 1949Alley gets sick
February 20, 1949May 1, 1949Oop vs the Soofoot Indian tribe
May 8, 1949October 29, 1950(these are integrated with daily-strip continuity)

1950s

Start DateEnd DateDescription
November 5, 1950Recap
November 12, 1950February 11, 1951The Tale of the Butcher Baron
February 18, 1951April 15, 1951Oop's better way of life for Moo
April 22, 1951June 3, 1951Oop, ghost at large
June 10, 1951July 15, 1951Guz and the Moovian jail
July 22, 1951September 2, 1951Oop, champion of the people
September 9, 1951September 30, 1951Ooola returns to Moo
October 7, 1951October 21, 1951Foozy's toothache
October 28, 1951November 18, 1951Little Oop learns to hunt
November 25, 1951December 23, 1951Foozy's kids go hunting
December 30, 1951January 20, 1952Dinny's stolen egg
January 27, 1952March 2, 1952Oop, court minstrel
March 9, 1952June 1, 1952Dinny catches a cold
June 8, 1952July 20, 1952Guz tries to exile Oop
July 27, 1952September 28, 1952The flying dinosaurs
October 5, 1952November 2, 1952Stock car racing
November 9, 1952November 30, 1952Modern policemen in Moo
December 7, 1952February 15, 1953Oop loses his memory
February 22, 1953April 26, 1953Oop takes the Moovian crown
May 3, 1953May 24, 1953Hunting with Foozy's kids
May 31, 1953July 12, 1953Oop as Guz's bodyguard
July 19, 1953August 30, 1953Oop needs new pants
September 6, 1953December 6, 1953Oopland
December 13, 1953January 10, 1954Guz and Alley settle their differences
January 17, 1954Alley's garden
January 24, 1954February 21, 1954Ooola and Alley patch things up
February 28, 1954May 30, 1954Guz and Alley have a duel
June 6, 1954June 27, 1954Foozy's blackmail scheme
July 4, 1954August 29, 1954Oop, chief of Moovian police
September 5, 1954November 28, 1954Dogs and cats
December 5, 1954December 26, 1954Oop strains his brain
January 2, 1955February 6, 1955Prince Oop
February 13, 1955March 6, 1955Woman troubles
March 13, 1955June 5, 1955Oop, assistant Wizer
June 12, 1955July 3, 1955Guz drives Oop out of Moo
July 10, 1955August 14, 1955Eedy and her father
August 21, 1955October 9, 1955X-ray vision
October 16, 1955October 23, 1955Pterodactyl riding with Foozy
October 30, 1955January 15, 1956The king of Gondwana abducts the Wizer
January 22, 1956March 25, 1956It's a woman's world
April 1, 1956April 22, 1956Alley brings Guz a dinosaur
April 29, 1956May 20, 1956Adventures in babysitting
May 27, 1956July 15, 1956Guz sends the army after Alley
July 22, 1956August 26, 1956Guz and Umpa go on a diet
September 2, 1956September 16, 1956Foozy tries Wizing
September 23, 1956October 7, 1956Cross-dressing Moovians
October 14, 1956November 25, 1956Alley fixes his axe
December 2, 1956January 13, 1957Alley pretends to be sick
January 20, 1957April 21, 1957Guz learns to act like royalty
April 28, 1957June 16, 1957The ceratosaurus gizzard
June 23, 1957June 30, 1957National Black Eye Week
July 7, 1957August 18, 1957Guz and Umpa abdicate / A word from our sponsor (The "word from our sponsor" was a meta-fictional story-within-a-story in which the Alley Oop characters lifted the comic panels to look for an annoying spokesman who kept interrupting their storyline.)
August 25, 1957September 15, 1957The yowling dinosaur
September 22, 1957November 3, 1957Foozy and Alley explore Moo
November 10, 1957December 29, 1957Wala, Poddywumps, and Whiskers come to Moo
January 5, 1958February 9, 1958Oop, minister of women's affairs
February 16, 1958May 11, 1958Oop becomes a Yobnerg ("greenboy" spelled backwards)
May 18, 1958June 15, 1958Diving for doubloons
June 22, 1958October 19, 1958Big game hunting (This is the next-to-last Sunday time-travel story)
October 26, 1958December 7, 1958Guz hurts his foot
December 14, 1958December 28, 1958The tailless dinosaur
January 4, 1959February 15, 1959Guz's pet mammoth
February 22, 1959March 29, 1959It's a man's world
April 5, 1959April 26, 1959Guz's vacation
May 3, 1959June 7, 1959Oop's hot-air balloon
June 14, 1959July 19, 1959Oop returns to Moo
July 26, 1959August 23, 1959Firing the Grand Wizer
August 30, 1959October 4, 1959Guz's toothache
October 11, 1959November 22, 1959Mini-Dinny
November 29, 1959December 6, 1959Alley and Foozy sit and think
December 13, 1959June 26, 1960Oop, king of Mootoo

1960s

Start DateEnd DateDescription
July 3, 1960July 10, 1960Guz puts down the revolution
July 17, 1960August 28, 1960Alley takes it easy
September 4, 1960October 23, 1960Riding the gold train
October 30, 1960January 1, 1961Meeting Alley's father (this is the last Sunday time-travel story)
January 8, 1961February 12, 1961Tax collections
February 19, 1961April 2, 1961Ooola makes Alley jealous
April 9, 1961May 7, 1961The underwater mystery monster
May 14, 1961June 25, 1961Oop, game warden
July 2, 1961September 3, 1961Substitute king Hexa
September 10, 1961October 8, 1961The royal family's mental wellness
October 15, 1961November 19, 1961Measles outbreak
November 26, 1961December 24, 1961He Ro arrives
December 31, 1961February 25, 1962Oop the clam magnate (In a light-hearted jibe at the B.C. comic strip, Oop discovers that clams make awful currency because they spoil and stink.)
March 4, 1962April 1, 1962Oop's not dead
April 8, 1962April 29, 1962Killjoy Oop
May 6, 1962June 24, 1962The exalted society of Moovian bird-watchers
July 1, 1962August 19, 1962Guz and Wizer trade places (On August 12, the Wizer's name is revealed to be "Pooky")
August 26, 1962November 11, 1962Wizer vs Dujoo the witch
November 18, 1962December 2, 1962Oop's hammock
December 9, 1962December 23, 1962Boredom in Moo
December 30, 1962March 10, 1963The Wizer goes away for a while
March 17, 1963July 7, 1963Moovian weight-reduction programs
July 14, 1963August 18, 1963Modern art in Moo
August 25, 1963October 13, 1963Guz's golf game
October 20, 1963November 24, 1963Umpa's picture window
January 12, 1963December 29, 1963Oop and Foozy go foraging
January 5, 1964March 29, 1964Oop denies being smart
April 5, 1964May 10, 1964Alley visits Mogo
May 17, 1964August 9, 1964The Mogoite invasion
August 16, 1964September 20, 1964Golf with a moron
September 27, 1964November 1, 1964The gazookus gizzard
November 8, 1964January 31, 1965Guz pretends to be dead
February 7, 1965May 16, 1965The Wizer is fired and re-hired
May 23, 1965August 1, 1965Alley and Foozy go hunting
August 8, 1965August 22, 1965Alley and Foozy's musical jam
August 29, 1965September 26, 1965The Wizer calms Oop
October 3, 1965November 21, 1965Moovian tiddlywinks
November 28, 1965December 5, 1965The fairy circle
December 12, 1965January 9, 1966Black-eyed romance
January 16, 1966February 13, 1966The dinosaur mating song
February 20, 1966March 6, 1966Wizer psyches out Oop
March 13, 1966April 24, 1966The dinosaur pox
May 1, 1966July 10, 1966Guz's nephew takes over
July 17, 1966August 21, 1966Umpa takes the throne
August 28, 1966November 27, 1966Guz gets a new spotted cat skin
December 4, 1966December 25, 1966Alley and Foozy go fishing
January 1, 1967January 22, 1967The Wizer's a trapper
January 29, 1967March 5, 1967Oop's new dinosaur Gizzy
March 12, 1967April 2, 1967Alley uses big words
April 9, 1967May 28, 1967Alley's evil eye
June 4, 1967September 10, 1967Umpa leaves Guz
September 17, 1967September 24, 1967gag strips
October 1, 1967December 10, 1967Alley's new pet dinosaur
December 17, 1967February 4, 1968Dinny's new family
February 11, 1968March 10, 1968Oop is presumed dead
March 17, 1968May 12, 1968Oop isn't feeling well
May 19, 1968July 28, 1968Foozy the Grand Wizer
August 4, 1968October 13, 1968Guz goes on a diet
October 20, 1968October 27, 1968The ladies get dinner
November 3, 1968December 8, 1968Alley babysits Foozy's kids
December 15, 1968January 19, 1969Guz and the Wizer search for reasons to arrest Alley
January 26, 1969March 2, 1969The rigor of being king
March 9, 1969April 13, 1969Alley's gone soft
April 20, 1969May 11, 1969Arms race of war clubs
May 18, 1969Alley's hunt comes up zero
May 25, 1969June 29, 1969Alley vs the Cardiff Giant
July 6, 1969July 27, 1969Oop's revolution
August 3, 1969August 31, 1969Oop's day of exile
September 7, 1969November 16, 1969Oop's new dinosaur Pooky
November 23, 1969December 21, 1969Alley and Ooola's day out
December 28, 1969February 8, 1970Oop flirts with the womenfolk

1970s

Start DateEnd DateDescription
February 15, 1970March 29, 1970Oop, chief of police
April 5, 1970April 26, 1970Alley has dinosaur troubles
May 3, 1970May 10, 1970Oop and Ooola squabble
May 17, 1970May 24, 1970Alley gets a check-up
May 31, 1970June 7, 1970Alley sings
June 14, 1970August 30, 1970Oop and Guz's golf tournament
September 6, 1970December 13, 1970Oop, king of Moo
December 20, 1970January 31, 1971Peacenik children take the throne
February 7, 1971May 30, 1971The mystery of the missing queens
June 6, 1971September 26, 1971Princess Ceelee of Gonwanaland
October 3, 1971November 7, 1971Oop's spoiling for a fight
November 14, 1971December 26, 1971Spooky shenanigans
January 2, 1972January 9, 1972Dinosaur fishing
January 16, 1972September 10, 1972Baffo tries for the throne
September 17, 1972December 17, 1972The Ohnolun invasion
December 24, 1972February 4, 1973Guz is aphasic
February 11, 1973May 27, 1973Baffo takes the throne
June 3, 1973July 22, 1973Oop's hex picture
July 29, 1973November 11, 1973Messages of cheer and joy
November 18, 1973February 17, 1974Troll troubles
February 24, 1974June 9, 1974Guz goes on a diet
June 16, 1974August 11, 1974Guz returns to Moo
August 18, 1974October 27, 1974Guz and Umpa's marital strife
November 3, 1974December 1, 1974Alley rescues a baby pterodactyl
December 8, 1974December 22, 1974Guz' new club
December 29, 1974March 9, 1975The big-tooth fella
March 16, 1975May 11, 1975Guz's necklace
May 18, 1975June 15, 1975Loony the trader
June 22, 1975August 24, 1975Guz's sailboat
August 31, 1975October 5, 1975Guz has amnesia
October 12, 1975November 2, 1975Guz recuperates
November 9, 1975December 28, 1975Alley's new dinosaur Filmore
January 4, 1976March 28, 1976Swamp apples
April 4, 1976May 9, 1976Three-legged journey home (May 2 strip adapted in Alley Oop Adventures #2, 1998)
May 16, 1976August 22, 1976Teeny and Boke
August 29, 1976October 3, 1976Littlebeak and Longbeard (reprinted, starting September 5, in Alley Oop Adventures #1, 1999)
October 10, 1976November 14, 1976The great Moovian pipeline (reprinted in Alley Oop Adventures #1, 1999)
November 21, 1976January 9, 1977Boomerang rocks (adapted in Alley Oop Adventures #2, 1998)
January 16, 1977February 27, 1977Kidnapped by the Boony-Goonies
March 6, 1977July 10, 1977The Outlander invasion
July 17, 1977November 13, 1977Alley becomes Grand Wizer
November 20, 1977February 12, 1978Salads and stunflowers
February 19, 1978July 30, 1978The alien shrink ray
August 6, 1978October 22, 1978Rollerboning
October 29, 1978January 14, 1979Curleyville
January 21, 1979February 18, 1979Pterodactyl riding
February 25, 1979July 15, 1979Prisoner of Outland
July 22, 1979December 16, 1979Princess Krakatoa and Ferdy

1980s

Start DateEnd DateDescription
December 23, 1979March 30, 1980Guz's new dinosaur Cuddles
April 6, 1980June 15, 1980Mag and Gummo adopt Alley
June 22, 1980September 21, 1980Cuddles and her baby
September 28, 1980October 26, 1980Big boo and little boo
November 2, 1980December 7, 1980Guz and Umpa's new house
December 14, 1980February 8, 1981Alley's treehouse
February 15, 1981March 22, 1981Ferdy's family
March 29, 1981April 19, 1981Oop's new dinosaur Tagalong
April 26, 1981June 7, 1981The thieving magpie
June 14, 1981November 4, 1981The trial of Snag and Eegore
November 11, 1981December 20, 1981The green blob from outer space
December 27, 1981February 7, 1982Bongo the swindler
February 14, 1982March 7, 1982Guz loses his voice
March 14, 1982June 20, 1982Escape from Emu the giant
June 27, 1982August 15, 1982Rescue from the Hairy Ones
August 22, 1982October 17, 1982Hojo, President of Moo
October 24, 1982December 12, 1982Umpa's cousin Effy
December 19, 1982February 6, 1983Gifts for Effy and Ooola
February 13, 1983February 27, 1983Cleaning up the town
March 6, 1983April 17, 1983Umpa's night to remember
April 24, 1983May 29, 1983The giant hoo-hoo bird
June 5, 1983July 3, 1983Dinny's new romance
July 10, 1983September 25, 1983Mango and his buddies
October 2, 1983December 25, 1983The bad-luck gemstone
January 1, 1984March 11, 1984Handyman Teddy
March 18, 1984June 17, 1984Ondamah vs the Yorkles
June 24, 1984August 19, 1984Princess Blivette goes on a diet
August 26, 1984December 2, 1984The land of giants
December 9, 1984December 30, 1984Alley's launcher ruins the picnic
January 6, 1985April 7, 1985Loo Loo's daycare center
April 14, 1985May 26, 1985The Wizer's youth potion
June 2, 1985September 8, 1985Tildy the sorceress
September 15, 1985November 3, 1985Carla and her parents
November 10, 1985February 16, 1986Mini-Dinny vs Guz
February 23, 1986June 1, 1986Mighty Alley and the firegod
June 8, 1986June 15, 1986Cheering up Umpa and Ooola
June 22, 1986October 5, 1986The diatrymas
October 12, 1986November 9, 1986Alley stuck in a hole
November 16, 1986January 11, 1987Moovian acrobatics
January 18, 1987June 28, 1987Little Leta and Feelipe
July 5, 1987August 15, 1987Hunting with Farky
August 23, 1987golf gag
August 30, 1987September 13, 1987The old folks' cave
September 20, 1987November 8, 1987Oop's headcoverings
November 15, 1987December 20, 1987Fishing with Fabulous Feeny
December 27, 1987February 7, 1988Cooking with Ferdy
February 7, 1988March 13, 1988Dino troubles
March 20, 1988May 8, 1988Prisoners of the Little Big Feet
May 15, 1988July 3, 1988Alley has spot rot
July 10, 1988July 17, 1988Alley's artwork
July 24, 1988Cocoball
July 31, 1988August 28, 1988Guz's Great Ant
September 4, 1988September 25, 1988the Wizer's dinosaur attractor
October 2, 1988October 9, 1988The faux fountain of youth
October 16, 1988October 23, 1988Hunting and fishing
October 30, 1988November 20, 1988Gazooley the rainmaker
November 27, 1988January 8, 1989Oop the giant
January 15, 1989March 5, 1989Won Ton the trader
March 12, 1989Sunday-advertising gag
March 19, 1989April 16, 1989Oop's dinosaur whistle
April 23, 1989May 7, 1989Guz's dinner
May 14, 1989June 4, 1989Oop's hairy tongue
June 11, 1989July 9, 1989Ferdy and the frog
July 16, 1989August 20, 1989Ailments and medicine
August 27, 1989October 8, 1989Oop's lucky stone
October 15, 1989November 26, 1989Dubby's bait cakes
December 3, 1989January 28, 1990Oop's cave mural

1990s

Start DateEnd DateDescription
February 4, 1990March 25, 1990Guz seeks enlightenment
April 1, 1990April 22, 1990Guz as Grand Wizer
April 29, 1990June 10, 1990The ghost of good government
June 17, 1990July 15, 1990The rockpile map scam
July 22, 1990August 12, 1990Bird calling
August 19, 1990September 2, 1990Moovian fitness center
September 9, 1990December 2, 1990Big Mama and the mini-Oops
December 9, 1990March 31, 1991Garzak the changeling (February 10 strip adapted in Alley Oop Adventures #3, 1998)
April 7, 1991May 5, 1991Alley clowns around
May 12, 1991June 9, 1991Guz and Oop go fishing
June 16, 1991July 14, 1991Bug-stomping business
July 21, 1991September 1, 1991Alley Oop's lending bank
September 8, 1991October 27, 1991Oop's jailbreak
November 3, 1991January 12, 1992Alley meets High Note (November 3 strip adapted in Alley Oop Adventures #3, 2000)
January 19, 1992February 2, 1992Replacing Big Ida's pet
February 9, 1992February 23, 1992Headstands and dizzy spins
March 1, 1992April 19, 1992Guz's surprises for Umpa
April 26, 1992June 28, 1992The abdominal snowman
July 12, 1992September 6, 1992Alley's Uncle Axel
September 13, 1992November 15, 1992The land of women
November 22, 1992January 3, 1993Cave gnomes
January 10, 1993March 28, 1993Guz and Alley get dinofoot (January 17 strip, minus one panel, reprinted in Alley Oop Adventures #1, 1999)
April 4, 1993April 18, 1993The Wizer's father and girlfriend
April 25, 1993July 25, 1993Digger the mind-reading bird (adapted in Alley Oop Adventures #1, 1998)
August 1, 1993August 29, 1993Moovian bowling (August 8 strip adapted in Alley Oop Adventures #1, 1998)
September 12, 1993October 17, 1993Dinner with Alley and Guz
October 24, 1993November 7, 1993The stupid game of golfing
November 14, 1993November 28, 1993Umpa burns the dinner
December 5, 1993December 12, 1993Oop babysits
December 19, 1993January 16, 1994Dolf makes a play for Ooola (reprinted in Alley Oop Adventures #3, 2000)
January 23, 1994February 13, 1994Oop and Ooola's dinner pranks
February 20, 1994March 27, 1994Dinosaur woes
April 3, 1994May 8, 1994Trading with the Meggets
May 15, 1994September 18, 1994Murdle's restaurant
September 25, 1994October 30, 1994Pterodactyl flying with Foozy
November 6, 1994January 15, 1995The land of Guzzes
January 22, 1995February 19, 1995Paragliding home
February 26, 1995March 12, 1995Soonie and Sweet Toes
March 19, 1995March 26, 1995The laughing dinosaurs
April 2, 1995May 14, 1995No drought in Moo
May 21, 1995June 4, 1995Food fight
June 11, 1995(not indexed)Alley the Grand Wizer
November 5, 1995February 4, 1996(not indexed)
(not indexed)February 11, 1996Alley babysits Foozy's kids
February 18, 1996April 7, 1996Umpa's fish pool
April 14, 1996April 21, 1996Making up with Ooola
April 28, 1996May 12, 1996Umpa's portrait
May 19, 1996July 28, 1996Ol's spaceship
August 4, 1996September 15, 1996Alley goes on a diet
September 22, 1996October 27, 1996Oop, temporary king
November 3, 1996December 22, 1996Umpa and Guz meet Tanu and Coral
December 29, 1996April 27, 1997Alley's new friend Ralfy
May 4, 1997June 1, 1997Kahlee and the mud men
June 8, 1997November 16, 1997Foozy's magic staff
November 23, 1997February 1, 1998Mini-dino hunt
February 8, 1998March 22, 1998Mating season with Sugar Lips
March 29, 1998bird divebombers (reprinted, minus one panel, in Alley Oop Adventures #3, 1998)
April 5, 1998June 7, 1998Umpa's art contest
June 15, 1998Oop's lazy day
June 21, 1998August 16, 1998Earthquake
August 23, 1998September 20, 1998Alley gets amnesia
September 27, 1998November 22, 1998New fashions in Moo
November 29, 1998January 17, 1999Grug and Chongo kidnap Ooola
January 24, 1999January 31, 1999Oop and Ooola's failed picnic
February 7, 1999February 21, 1999Oop falls into a pterodactyl nest (February 14 and 21 retell November 24 and December 1, 1974)
February 28, 1999March 14, 1999The dancing dinosaurs' hat party
March 21, 1999April 4, 1999The Wizer fixes Alley up
April 11, 1999June 6, 1999Wazoo's cart
June 13, 1999August 15, 1999Guz's new dinosaur Rocky
August 22, 1999October 17, 1999Guz and Alley, the blue brothers (August 22 strip reprinted in Alley Oop Adventures #2, 1999)
October 24, 1999Oop and Ooola's uneventful day
October 31, 1999January 2, 2000Guz's memorial portrait

2000s

Start DateEnd DateDescription
January 9, 2000March 5, 2000Guz invents shoes
March 12, 2000March 19, 2000Alley and Guz don't go fishing
March 26, 2000April 30, 2000The laughing drooptails
May 7, 2000June 4, 2000Guz and Umpa's drum dinner
June 11, 2000July 9, 2000Oop communes with nature
July 16, 2000August 13, 2000Babysitting and dino rides
August 20, 2000September 17, 2000Alley's land sailer
September 24, 2000October 29, 2000Clagget the Magnificent
November 5, 2000December 17, 2000Guz and Umpa's short vacation
December 24, 2000December 31, 2000Alley and Guz go fishing
January 7, 2001January 28, 2001The fish-head prank
February 4, 2001March 4, 2001Charity distribution
March 11, 2001March 18, 2001Oop hurts his foot
March 25, 2001Stew Invaders: Alley Oop does Douglas Adams
April 1, 2001April 8, 2001The April Fool's party
April 15, 2001May 13, 2001Alley and Guz play golf
May 20, 2001July 8, 2001Guys against the gals race
July 15, 2001August 26, 2001Brutus the attack dinosaur
September 2, 2001September 9, 2001Dinny lives the good life (Carole and Jack Bender take over from Dave Graue starting with this story)
September 16, 2001October 28, 2001Medicine for little Danno (adapted from Alley Oop Adventures #2, 1999)
November 4, 2001December 9, 2001Oop gets Foozy's rhyming curse
December 16, 2001December 23, 2001Wootietoot's home for Christmas
December 30, 2001Competing New Year's parties
January 6, 2002January 20, 2002How to find food in the jungle (reprinted from Alley Oop Adventures #1, 1999)
January 27, 2002Mount Umpa (adapted from Alley Oop Adventures #2, 1999)
February 3, 2002Alley's cave painting (Jack Bender tryout strip, also published in Alley Oop Adventures #1, 1999)
February 10, 2002February 24, 2002Oop's noisy neighbors
March 3, 2002March 31, 2002March Madness basketball
April 7, 2002gag strip (red dino)
April 14, 2002May 26, 2002Roblio and Joliette
June 2, 2002June 23, 2002Guz and Oop's flying wings
June 30, 2002gag strip (rain)
July 7, 2002August 4, 2002Summer vacation cruise
August 11, 2002gag strip (dumb animals)
August 18, 2002September 1, 2002Lila meets Rocko
September 8, 2002September 22, 2002Dinny and the dinky dino (adapted from Alley Oop Adventures #3, 1998)
September 29, 2002October 6, 2002Oop gets a cold
October 13, 2002November 3, 2002Wizer's evil twin Wizzer
November 10, 2002November 24, 2002School-days memories
December 1, 2002December 29, 2002Earlie Oop arrives
January 5, 2003January 19, 2003gag strips
January 26, 2003February 23, 2003Oop's cart race
March 2, 2003April 6, 2003Foozy's alone time
April 13, 2003May 11, 2003Men and women swap jobs
May 18, 2003July 13, 2003Guz invents baseball
July 20, 2003August 17, 2003gag strips
August 24, 2003September 14, 2003Guz tries to get a new dino (August 24 and 31 redraw January 27, 1980 and February 3, 1980; September 7 retells January 13, 1980)
September 21, 2003October 19, 2003Oop's lucky clover
October 26, 2003November 2, 2003Umpa's spa concept
November 9, 2003November 23, 2003Thanksgiving with Moo and Lem
November 30, 2003December 21, 2003Moo's new orphans
December 28, 2003January 18, 2004Framevision
January 25, 2004February 15, 2004Guz and Alley's fish alarm
February 22, 2004March 21, 2004The Moovian reservoir (this story reprints the daily strips from August 22 to 26, 1995, with new panels added)
March 28, 2004April 25, 2004The circus comes to Moo
May 2, 2004May 16, 2004The mysterious monolith
May 23, 2004June 6, 2004Alley's dinosaur whistle
June 13, 2004July 25, 2004King Oop
August 1, 2004August 22, 2004Alley and Guz go fishing
August 29, 2004October 10, 2004The Wizer's chickenosaurus soup
October 17, 2004November 7, 2004Stew Invaders extended edition (October 17 strip reprints the second half of the March 25, 2001 strip)
November 14, 2004December 26, 2004Guz gets Scrooged
January 2, 2005Happy New Year
January 9, 2005February 27, 2005Foozy as Guz's bodyguard
March 6, 2005gag strip
March 13, 2005April 3, 2005Wizer's emergency clinic
April 10, 2005gag strip
April 17, 2005May 8, 2005Dinny's solo outing
May 15, 2005retells Oop and Ooola's uneventful day from October 24, 1999
May 22, 2005June 12, 2005retells Dubby's bait cakes (from October 15 to November 26, 1989)
June 19, 2005July 17, 2005The giant-feather bird
July 24, 2005September 4, 2005Mountain, strongest man in Moo (this sequence starts by reprinting daily strips from July 19 – September 2, 2005, but then ends the story on September 4 with new art while the daily story continues separately)
September 11, 2005gag strip
September 18, 2005October 9, 2005Pterodactyls make bad pets
October 16, 2005Happy autumn
October 23, 2005November 13, 2005Ooperman
November 20, 2005Happy Thanksgiving
November 27, 2005gag strip
December 4, 2005December 25, 2005One of our reindeer is missing

Daily storylines

The following is a list of storylines featured in the daily comic strips. Actual story titles were not provided in the strips; the dates and story descriptions given here are, therefore, not official or definitive delineations but may serve as a rough index to the history of the strip.

Although the Bonnet–Brown strips appeared in daily comics sections, their distribution was erratic. Consequently, after February 6, 1933, the strips did not show a date but were given a sequential number instead (from 55 through 120), presumably so that editors could run them whenever they were received. The dates given here may, therefore, not be precisely accurate for every newspaper in which the strip appeared.

Bonnet–Brown

Start DateEnd DateDescription
December 6, 1932December 12, 1932Oop gets breakfast
December 13, 1932January 14, 1933Oop befriends Dinny
January 16, 1933February 17, 1933Introducing Dinny to the Moovians
February 19, 1933April 29, 1933Rescuing Ooola from the Cardiff Giant
May 1, 1933May 6, 1933A hero's welcome

1930s

Start DateEnd DateDescription
August 7, 1933September 2, 1933Oop befriends Dinny
September 4, 1933September 28, 2020Introducing Dinny to the Moovians
September 29, 1933October 21, 1933Rescuing Ooola from the Cardiff Giant
October 23, 1933November 4, 1933A hero's welcome
November 6, 1933November 17, 1933Oop vs Cardiff Giant, round two
November 18, 1933January 11, 1934Umpa wants a baby dino
January 12, 1934January 27, 1934Foozy pretends to be Umpa's pet
January 29, 1934March 12, 1934Oop's rebellion
March 13, 1934March 24, 1934Tunk steals Dinny
March 26, 1934April 27, 1934Guz and Alley settle their differences
April 28, 1934May 19, 1934Oop is promised to Wootietoot
May 21, 1934June 23, 1934Rescuing Dinny from Lem
June 25, 1934July 23, 1934Alley and Ooola can't stop the wedding
July 24, 1934August 1, 1934Dinny is treed
August 2, 1934September 3, 1934Alley and Foozy are swept away
September 4, 1934September 18, 1934Alley and Foozy thrash Dootsy's gang
September 19, 1934October 30, 1934Wedding preparations
October 31, 1934December 8, 1934Dootsy kidnaps Ooola and Wootietoot
December 10, 1934December 29, 1934Lem conquers Moo
December 31, 1934April 13, 1935Moo drives out the invaders
April 15, 1935May 6, 1935Oop nominated for king
May 7, 1935June 6, 1935Oop and Guz prepare to duel but disappear underground
June 7, 1935June 22, 1935Foozy takes over Moo
June 24, 1935August 6, 1935Guz and Alley escape to the surface
August 7, 1935September 20, 1935Dootsy Bobo re-ignites the war
September 21, 1935October 22, 1935Ooola and Dinny help Alley get home
October 23, 1935December 12, 1935Moo vs Lem: final round
December 13, 1935December 31, 1935Guz's pterodactyl flight
January 1, 1936January 17, 1936Foozy comes home
January 18, 1936April 10, 1936Foozy vs the Grand Wizer
April 11, 1936May 15, 1936Oop vs the Grand Wizer
May 16, 1936July 25, 1936Oop and Ooola visit Sawalla
July 27, 1936August 28, 1936King Wur makes trouble
August 29, 1936October 24, 1936Return to Sawalla
October 26, 1936January 22, 1937Wur conquers Moo and Lem
January 23, 1937February 25, 1937Wur is deposed
February 26, 1937March 9, 1937Wur escapes
March 10, 1937March 22, 1937The hunters lose Foozy
March 23, 1937April 3, 1937Oop is jailed
April 5, 1937May 4, 1937Foozy and Oop join the Bighorn tribe
May 5, 1937May 27, 1937Dinny's new overcoat
May 28, 1937June 19, 1937The journey back to Moo
June 21, 1937July 12, 1937The mammoth hides and the Wizer
July 13, 1937August 24, 1937Foozy romances Ooola
August 25, 1937November 19, 1937The Grand Wizer conspires with Foozy
November 20, 1937December 24, 1937Umpa takes over
December 25, 1937January 27, 1938Eeny arrives in Moo
January 28, 1937April 13, 1938Dictator Eeny
April 14, 1938April 29, 1938Moo is flooded
April 30, 1938June 25, 1938Mootoo
June 27, 1938July 11, 1938Ooola and the Wizer return
July 12, 1938August 3, 1938Foozy, chief of police
August 4, 1938September 1, 1938Dinny is sick
September 2, 1938September 23, 1938Foozy meets Zel
September 24, 1938November 4, 1938Training Kakky
November 5, 1938November 12, 1938Foozy's new cave
November 14, 1938January 18, 1939Ooola's would-be suitors
January 19, 1939March 4, 1939Foozy's courtship and marriage
March 6, 1939April 5, 1939Guz eats Dinny's egg
April 6, 1939July 21, 1939Oop is the Phantom Ape
July 22, 1939October 26, 1939The Trojan War
October 27, 1939February 24, 1940The Odyssey

1940s

Start DateEnd DateDescription
February 26, 1940July 29, 1940Hercules and the Amazons
July 31, 1940November 19, 1940Cleopatra and the crocodile priests
November 20, 1939April 2, 1940Oscar Boom vs Cleopatra
April 3, 1941September 6, 1941Boom is Blackbeard the pirate
September 8, 1941September 13, 1941The Story So Far
September 15, 1941November 21, 1941Foozy in the 20th century (Jon quits the lab on October 16)
November 22, 1941April 2, 1942the Magna Carta
April 3, 1942April 18, 1942Dinny in the 20th Century
April 20, 1942May 8, 1942Oop tries to enlist (strip is reduced in size on April 20)
May 9, 1942August 18, 1942Fighting the Japanese with Boom
August 19, 1942September 14, 1942Dinny at the zoo
September 15, 1942January 16, 1943Dictator Eeny returns
January 18, 1943January 26, 1943Umpa tries 20th-century fashion
January 27, 1943March 3, 1943Shenanigans with Foozy's kids
March 4, 1943March 25, 1943The rubber vines
March 26, 1943April 26, 1943Oop wants a steak
April 27, 1943August 26, 1943Boom and Oop meet Archimedes
August 27, 1943September 23, 1943By rocket to China
September 24, 1943December 31, 1943Genghis Khan's sword
January 1, 1944February 24, 1944Gorilla warfare in Moo
February 25, 1944April 6, 1944Dinny is sick
April 7, 1944April 15, 1944Guz gets the magic belt
April 17, 1944August 3, 1944King Solomon's mines
August 4, 1944November 24, 1944The caveman rescue squad comes for Alley
November 25, 1944February 14, 1945Guz's replacement jewels
May 15, 1945April 2, 1945Oop, king of Lem
April 3, 1945May 8, 1945The time machine's new viewscreen (it first appears on April 3)
May 9, 1945May 30, 1945Wonmug meets the Grand Wizer
May 31, 1945June 22, 1945Oop gets shocked
June 23, 1945September 17, 1945From ancient China to Japan
September 18, 1945October 26, 1945Beach vacation (Alley gets a shave October 12)
October 27, 1945January 23, 1946Alley Oop as the pirate Davy Jones
January 24, 1946March 8, 1946Oop gets his whiskers back
March 9, 1946March 29, 1946Bud and Sixty join the lab
March 30, 1946June 2, 1946Ancient Lost Atlantis (This story integrated the daily strips with the Sundays from March 31 to June 2)
June 3, 1946July 19, 1946Oop vs the crooked carnies
July 20, 1946October 15, 1946Attack of the Cro-Mags
October 16, 1946December 2, 1946Assistant king
December 3, 1946January 18, 1947Gory Gulch gold
January 20, 1947April 8, 1947Nitro for Napoleon
April 9, 1947May 3, 1947Pirate waters
May 5, 1947June 20, 1947The Bashaw's pleasure
June 21, 1947September 1, 1947Robinson Crusoe
September 2, 1947January 15, 1948Public Enemy Number One
January 16, 1948March 26, 1948The fourth dimension
June 5, 1948July 8, 1948The Mighty Hu
July 9, 1948August 30, 1948Mystery of the Sphinx
August 31, 1948November 25, 1948Prince Pokababa woos Ooola
November 26, 1948January 11, 1949War between Moo and Lem
January 12, 1949February 17, 1949Oop woos Princess Zee
February 18, 1949May 2, 1949Pretenders to the thrones
May 3, 1949July 5, 1949Fishing with international gangsters (Sunday strips are integrated with the dailies starting May 8)
July 6, 1949September 23, 1949First trip to the moon
September 24, 1949November 9, 1949The Grand Wizer's cure
November 10, 1949December 19, 1949Oop's lecture tour
December 20, 1949February 13, 1950In the Land of the Amazons

1950s

Start DateEnd DateDescription
February 14, 1950March 27, 1950Oscar in Moo
March 28, 1950May 8, 1950Tiger hunt
May 9, 1950June 30, 1950The Grand Wizer's beads
July 1, 1950August 23, 1950With Caesar in Britain
August 24, 1950October 31, 1950Richard the Lion-Hearted (last integrated Sunday is October 29)
November 1, 1950March 19, 1951Voyage to Venus
March 20, 1951May 12, 1951The Great Train Robbery
May 14, 1951July 27, 1951Alley's new glasses
July 28, 1951December 10, 1951Foozy, emperor of Rome
December 11, 1951December 25, 1951Santa Claus takes Alley and Ooola home
December 26, 1951January 21, 1952Dinny in the 20th Century
January 22, 1952March 15, 1952John Smith and Pocahontas
March 17, 1952June 21, 1952Miner '49ers and Marryin' Marion
June 23, 1952July 23, 1952The Queen of Sheba
July 24, 1952September 24, 1952The genie's magic turban
September 26, 1952November 1, 1952Halloweenland
November 3, 1952December 23, 1952Degga Degga the witch
December 24, 1952February 25, 1953Wonmug in ancient Crete
February 26, 1953March 10, 1953Returning dinosaurs to Moo
March 11, 1953March 28, 1953The Wizer curses Oop
March 30, 1953June 1, 1953Macbeth
June 2, 1953June 15, 1953Alley tries to quit smoking
June 16, 1953August 15, 1953The Great Spirit of the Bubbling Mud
August 17, 1953October 24, 1953Baxter Blair in Moo
October 26, 1953October 31, 1953Degga Degga returns
November 2, 1953March 11, 1954The Battle of Hastings
March 12, 1954April 28, 1954The land of Foozys
April 29, 1954May 22, 1954Eustace vs Dinny
May 24, 1954August 10, 1954The dragon of Iron Castle
August 11, 1954November 6, 1954Wooing Brunnhilde
November 8, 1954December 30, 1954Liberating Moo
December 31, 1954February 14, 1955Boom's black-light projector
February 15, 1955March 11, 1955Rescuing Wonmug from the Picts
March 12, 1955April 10, 1955Moovian fishing trip
April 11, 1955June 20, 1955Guz's tiger tail
June 21, 1955July 23, 1955Ooola meets Helen of Troy
July 25, 1955October 14, 1955The tailless tiger and Wabba
October 15, 1955November 28, 1955C.O. Lossal and Alexander the Great
November 29, 1955December 17, 1955Alley complains to V.T. Hamlin
December 19, 1955February 25, 1956Doctor Miller's Miracle Misery Medicine Show
February 27, 1956April 11, 1956Blarney Goldfield racing (Oop meets young Wonmug)
April 12, 1956May 16, 1956Doctor Ennis wants a dinosaur
May 17, 1956July 14, 1956Amnesiac Oop and the old princess
July 16, 1956August 29, 1956Wonmug's buffalo ranch
August 30, 1956September 14, 1956Kicking the apes out of Moo
September 15, 1956October 12, 1956Dinny's offspring
October 13, 1956November 12, 1956The Mizoolian spook
November 13, 1956December 1, 1956Real-life melodrama
December 3, 1956December 21, 1956Abdul Abool Bool Emeer vs Ivan Skivinski Skivaar
December 22, 1956January 24, 1956Smith's giant bone
January 25, 1956February 12, 1957Alley recuperates
February 13, 1957April 27, 1957Alley's riverboat
April 29, 1957July 18, 1957The Wizer's hypnosis scheme
July 19, 1957August 27, 1957Ooola's gold mine
August 28, 1957October 26, 1957Selling Olympus
October 28, 1957December 9, 1957Whitey vs the Picts
December 10, 1957February 3, 1958Second trip to the moon
February 4, 1958February 18, 1958Jack and Ooola head to Natchez
February 19, 1958March 21, 1958Wonmug finds the astronauts
March 22, 1958May 22, 1958Jack and Alley vie for Ooola
May 23, 1958June 13, 1958The alien island colony
June 14, 1958July 14, 1958Moovian reunions
July 15, 1958July 26, 1958Tiger kitten
July 28, 1958August 5, 1958Freeloading from Foozy
August 6, 1958August 22, 1958Ta Boo and the new immigrants
August 23, 1958October 18, 1958The Wizer's rockslide mystery
October 20, 1958December 10, 1958The pterodactyl riders of Bul
November 12, 1958March 7, 1959Oxy Twenty-Four, the moonman
March 9, 1959April 23, 1959Guz is rescued from Bul
April 24, 1959August 10, 1959Mabacak and the million-dollar nugget
August 11, 1959October 1, 1959Oxy's mechanical man
October 2, 1959December 24, 1959Oxy and the Lemian occupation of Moo
December 25, 1959January 29, 1960Oxy's anti-gravity machine

1960s

Start DateEnd DateDescription
January 30, 1960March 4, 1960Catching up with Dinny's grandson
March 5, 1960April 20, 1960The fountain of youth
April 21, 1960May 12, 1960Oxy's trip to the moon
May 13, 1960July 15, 1960Young Doc and Brunnehilde
July 16, 1960September 23, 1960Dee Daily, reporter
September 24, 1960November 3, 1960The million-dollar nugget, round two
November 4, 1960December 5, 1960Diplodocus on the loose
December 6, 1960January 14, 1961Wonmug meets his ancestors
January 16, 1961February 14, 1961Retrieving Ooola from the Old West
February 15, 1961March 31, 1961Oop's commandos
April 1, 1961April 14, 1961Alley's odd jobs
April 15, 1961May 5, 1961Oxy's pirate adventure
May 6, 1961August 29, 1961Invasion of the moonmen
August 30, 1961December 7, 1961Professor Oop
December 8, 1961January 18, 1962Oop's new dinosaur Jefferson
January 19, 1962February 26, 1962Alley babysits Foozy's kids
February 27, 1962April 7, 1962Gold in Alder Gulch
April 9, 1962August 17, 1962Oop's brain transplant
August 18, 1962October 20, 1962Progress and coffee in Moo
October 22, 1962November 19, 1962Oop takes the throne
November 20, 1962December 18, 1962Stripes the tiger
December 19, 1962February 19, 1962The princess and the dragon
February 20, 1962March 13, 1963X-ray vision
March 14, 1963June 29, 1963Big Charley and Little Charley
July 1, 1963August 6, 1963Wonmug recruits Yakkahik
August 7, 1963August 28, 1963King Willie on the radio
August 29, 1963November 7, 1963King Yakkahik (Alley gets glasses again on September 5)
November 8, 1963February 1, 1964Gikky the Lemian
February 3, 1964May 11, 1964Nick Smith and the Olympians
May 12, 1964June 19, 1964Alley the weather god
June 20, 1964July 18, 1964Amnesiac Oop takes the Moovian crown
July 20, 1964August 31, 1964Cleopatra's dye job
September 1, 1964October 3, 1964The mini-mummy
October 5, 1964November 30, 1964Oscar and Doc visit Brunnehilde
December 1, 1964January 30, 1965Koozuh and her family
February 1, 1965April 13, 1965Robot IO2
April 14, 1965May 25, 1965Alley's hammock
May 26, 1965August 20, 1965Mariner 4 and the Martian picnic
August 21, 1965September 28, 1965Preparing for the ice age
September 29, 1965November 22, 1965Doctor Nottagotta's brain serum
November 23, 1965December 18, 1965Ooola on the throne
December 20, 1965January 22, 1965Time-traveler from 2166
January 24, 1966February 21, 1966Oop's asteroid
February 22, 1966March 30, 1966Young King Arthur and the dragon
March 31, 1966May 9, 1966Time-traveler from 2166, part two
May 10, 1966July 15, 1966The Moovian Men's Luncheon Club
July 16, 1966October 15, 1966Alley's weapons store
October 17, 1966December 23, 1966The king of Gee Whiz
December 24, 1966February 14, 1967The Neanderthals featuring Al "the beat" Oop
February 15, 1967June 19, 1967Moovian foreign aid
June 20, 1967July 29, 1967Moovian diplomacy
July 31, 1967August 25, 1967Moo's most eligible bachelor
August 26, 1967October 21, 1967The Princess of Neanderland
October 23, 1967December 16, 1967Umpa and King Baz
December 18, 1967March 4, 1968Youtopia
March 5, 1968March 28, 1968Building an asteroid deflector
March 29, 1968May 27, 1968Joe Keeno in Moo
May 28, 1968June 24, 1968Asteroid Icarus is deflected
June 25, 1968August 22, 1968Civil unrest in Moo
August 23, 1968November 30, 1968Ooola interviews Helen of Troy
December 2, 1968March 14, 1969Nefertiti's diet
March 15, 1969April 23, 1969Old comic-strip ghosts
April 24, 1969June 17, 1969Jason and the beanstalk
June 18, 1969September 4, 1969Oop and Ooola become astrologers
September 5, 1969September 23, 1969The brain machine
September 24, 1969November 29, 1969The Kiddy Korner franchise
December 1, 1969February 27, 1970King of the hill

1970s

Character cameos from September 1, 1975. From left to right: Frank and Ernest, Captain Easy, a supporting character from The Born Loser, Major Hoople (from Our Boarding House). Click for slightly higher resolution.
Start DateEnd DateDescription
February 28, 1970May 30, 1970King Kingston of ancient Athens
June 1, 1970September 12, 1970The fabulous all-electric ghost car
September 14, 1970November 27, 1970Wonmug and the Gink
November 28, 1970April 20, 1971Carl the First, King of Lem (Wilberforce from The Born Loser appears in a cameo on 9/12)
April 21, 1971June 10, 1971Crown swapping with Guz and Tunk
June 11, 1971August 23, 1971Alley's new dinosaur KT
August 24, 1971October 6, 1971Clank, the far-out robot
October 7, 1971January 8, 1972The Zan of Zoron
January 10, 1972January 29, 1972Clank and Clink
January 31, 1972March 23, 1972Toko and Baldy's gang
March 24, 1972May 4, 1972Toko and Aunt Bella
May 5, 1972June 22, 1972The cook-off
June 23, 1972July 24, 1972Clank and Clunk
July 25, 1972November 2, 1972Clank at Ravensbeak Castle
November 3, 1972December 12, 1972Oop retrieves his ax from Bella
December 13, 1972March 26, 1973The giants of Dead Man's Lake
March 27, 1973June 1, 1973The plesiosaur hunt
June 2, 1973September 15, 1973Plesiosaurs in Loch Ness
September 17, 1973December 21, 1973The land of Dinnys
December 22, 1973May 3, 1974Booja berries and the Gink
May 4, 1974August 2, 1974Han Sin's kite
August 3, 1974September 25, 1974Orville Lurch and the Lurchmobile
September 26, 1974November 30, 1974In the land of Nerr
December 2, 1974February 28, 1975Kidnappers in Moo
March 1, 1975March 8, 1975On the road to Florida
March 10, 1975June 2, 1975The Thorn King of Nerr
June 3, 1975November 12, 1975Panamint City
November 13, 1975June 15, 1976The Texas Pterosaur Project
June 16, 1976September 25, 1976Alley meets Christopher Columbus
September 27, 1976January 11, 1977Alexander Dork's strength formula
January 12, 1977February 28, 1977Beebo and Harless
March 1, 1977July 4, 1977The Moovian migration
July 5, 1977October 8, 1977Princess Bahlinka
October 10, 1977November 28, 1977Doc's Uncle Peevill
November 29, 1977February 17, 1978The battle of Adrianople
February 18, 1978May 26, 1978Tunk's daughter Soooella
May 27, 1978June 19, 1978Time-machine modernized redesign
June 20, 1978December 20, 1978Delfon, land of living vegetables
December 21, 1978March 2, 1979Supersnoz, hero of Moo
March 3, 1979April 10, 1979Hooktooth the tyrannosaur
April 11, 1979May 19, 1979Ox and Mandy scout the lab
May 21, 1979July 10, 1979The land of cannibal giants
July 11, 1979September 8, 1979Otto Stain and the time-machine heist
September 10, 1979November 26, 1979Alley in Wonderland
November 27, 1979December 6, 1979The new lab
December 7, 1979February 7, 1980Lontoo, Sendak, and the Megawart

1980s

Start DateEnd DateDescription
February 8, 1980April 17, 1980The little people of Fog Island
April 18, 1980July 15, 1980The lost treasure of the Vinegar Bend Bunch
July 16, 1980September 18, 1980The seven cities of gold
September 19, 1980December 12, 1980Munda Wunch in Movieland
December 13, 1980February 24, 1981The Runt Brothers
February 25, 1981April 6, 1981Visitors from the 27th century
April 7, 1981July 2, 1981Senator Boozle in the Moovian government
July 3, 1981September 7, 1981Modern-age Dinny hunt
September 8, 1981December 1, 1981Draculina
December 2, 1981February 5, 1982Alley the stunt double
February 6, 1982April 5, 1982The Moovian zoo
April 6, 1982June 12, 1982Big Kaboom and the arms race
June 14, 1982August 21, 1982A visit to 2082
August 23, 1982November 8, 1982The Revolutionary War
November 9, 1982January 15, 1983Laabod's fitness classes
January 17, 1983March 12, 1983Melonball: Moo vs Lem
March 14, 1983May 30, 1983Moo elects a Congress
May 31, 1983October 11, 1983The Black Knight of WWI
October 12, 1983January 16, 1984Draculina returns
January 17, 1984May 3, 1984First Prehistoric International Olympics
May 4, 1984August 15, 1984Reforms in Upper Yorch
August 16, 1984September 4, 1984Brute's revenge
September 5, 1984December 24, 1984Ace Chung in Old San Francisco
December 25, 1984March 23, 1984Aliens on Fog Island
March 25, 1984July 22, 1984The chalice scam of Castle Blackrose
July 23, 1984November 6, 1984Cursed Queen Roweena of Redfern
November 7, 1984January 20, 1985The two-headed pterodactyl
January 21, 1985April 21, 1985Queen Mardo of the Land of No Return
April 22, 1985August 11, 1986King Koogie and Melba
August 12, 1986September 29, 1986Modernizing the time machine
September 30, 1986January 31, 1987Civil War: Confederate side
February 2, 1987April 24, 1987Larry Benn comes for Ava
April 25, 1987August 15, 1987Under the sea
August 17, 1987November 20, 1987Civil War: Union side
November 21, 1987February 15, 1988Zu Zu and the Lemian invasion
February 16, 1988April 9, 1988Alley becomes Grand Wizer
April 11, 1988June 18, 1988The search for Wizer's new beads
June 20, 1988November 5, 1988Corple and the Hubots of Talaxia
November 7, 1988April 4, 1989Redbeard and the Black Widow
April 5, 1989May 9, 1989Oop's new dinosaur Fang
May 10, 1989September 18, 1989Barry Nearside in Moo
September 19, 1989January 15, 1990The Moovian county fair

1990s

Start DateEnd DateDescription
January 16, 1990May 24, 1990The lost Frankenstank medallion
May 25, 1990October 31, 1990The Monarchs of Gorp
November 1, 1990January 14, 1991Two-Gun Jake in Colorado
January 15, 1991July 4, 1991K.T. Bono in witness protection
July 5, 1991December 4, 1991Marty and Nick in ancient Greece
December 5, 1991February 4, 1992Ava in Moo
February 5, 1992May 16, 1992King Garzak of Lem
May 18, 1992October 5, 1992The lost Zorax dragon
October 6, 1992February 4, 1993Contract Air-Mail Route Number Two (adapted in Alley Oop Adventures #3, March 2000)
February 5, 1993June 25, 1993Ontok, king of the Longtails
June 26, 1993December 2, 1993Pidali the artist thwarts the Lemian invasion
December 3, 1993April 9, 1994Catching baby dinos for the 20th-century zoo
April 11, 1994April 26, 1994Alley and Guz go fishing
April 27, 1994June 28, 1994Richard Petty helps corral an escaped dino
June 29, 1994December 12, 1994Orana's hypnosis stones
December 13, 1994June 13, 1995Blue-Two versus the Nightlings
June 14, 1995July 17, 1995Fruit and fishing in Moo
July 18, 1995September 15, 1995The Moovian reservoir
September 16, 1995December 8, 1995The Wizer's attraction extract
December 9, 1995December 30, 1995The Wizer needs a new hat
January 1, 1996February 12, 1996Alien fast food
February 13, 1996April 8, 1996Hunting the yellow-beaked blackwing
April 9, 1996May 7, 1996Pet-sitting
May 8, 1996September 9, 1996Seeking the Lemian star fendle
September 10, 1996January 4, 1997Granny in the Ghostlands
January 6, 1997July 4, 1997Theseus and the Minotaur
July 5, 1997August 4, 1997Ava and Alley vs two escaped felons
August 5, 1997December 4, 1997The Battle of Crecy
December 5, 1997June 17, 1998The Zan of Zoron returns
June 18, 1998September 26, 1998Umpa's Aunt Addy
September 28, 1998November 30, 1998Disposing of the Swamp Slug
December 1, 1998February 6, 1999Gillian Hoopster from 2153 visits Moo
February 8, 1999February 27, 1999Dermit the Hermit
March 1, 1999April 6, 1999A song for Umpa
April 7, 1999December 6, 1999"She" from the Land of Seven Peaks

2000s

Start DateEnd DateDescription
December 7, 1999May 30, 2000Ingarella and Socko the giant (May 27 is a tribute to Charles Schulz)
May 31, 2000January 3, 2001The Great Kafrak's colony
January 4, 2001May 19, 2001Vasco Da Gama
May 21, 2001September 1, 2001Gunfight at Dead Dog
September 3, 2001September 10, 2001Oop's surprise party
September 11, 2001January 23, 2002Luke Slyme and the Moovian diamonds (featuring Harry Houdini)
January 24, 2002July 1, 2002Garzak and the Trojan dinosaur
July 2, 2002July 12, 2002Alley dreams of marriage
July 13, 2002December 27, 2002St George and Dinny the Dragon, alternating with Dave Wowee updating the time machine
December 28, 2002July 16, 2003Robert the Bruce and Dinny the Loch Ness monster (Robert is drawn to resemble Sean Connery)
July 17, 2003September 30, 2003Richard Feynman helps find time-lost Alley
October 1, 2003November 1, 2003Oscar and Alley leave
November 3, 2003June 15, 2004Dolf tries to conquer Moo and Lem
June 16, 2004June 28, 2004Alley proposes
June 29, 2004September 10, 2004Olympic wrestling history (featuring Milo of Croton, Frank Gotch, and Dan Gable)
September 11, 2004September 30, 2004Dave's new look
October 1, 2004January 12, 2004The Hunchback of Notre Dame alternating with Heck and Marko
January 13, 2004February 18, 2005Heck and Marko's Moovian oil scheme concludes
February 19, 2005April 20, 2005Jon Fish's tax scheme
April 21, 2005July 14, 2005Prisoners of Crimsonia
July 15, 2005September 26, 2005Mountain, strongest man in Moo
September 27, 2005December 17, 2005Tunk impersonates the Abdominal Snowman
December 19, 2005March 6, 2006Rudy Valentino's dance lessons
March 7, 2006April 11, 2006Tunk's lost crown
April 12, 2006May 5, 2006Moo's official historian
May 6, 2006July 28, 2006Moofest
July 29, 2006December 8, 2006Conquistadors in Moo (October 4 is a Dick Tracy 75th-anniversary salute)
December 9, 2006December 29, 2006Christmas Carol/Gift of the Magi
December 30, 2006January 12, 2007Oscar on the lam
January 13, 2007March 14, 2007Umpa for ruler
March 15, 2007June 16, 2007Oscar's revenge
June 18, 2007July 27, 2007Recovering Oscar and Dinny
July 28, 2007September 21, 2007The poisonous meteor
September 22, 2007December 4, 2007Will Rogers in Oklahoma Territory
December 5, 2007December 17, 2007Meet Earl Boom
December 18, 2007April 26, 2008Earlie Oop and the engagement ring
April 28, 2008September 13, 200870th anniversary celebration
September 15, 2008December 12, 2008Dee's archeological expedition (November 24 is a 90th-anniversary tribute to Gasoline Alley)
December 13, 2008December 29, 2008Christmas with Ooola
December 30, 2008January 19, 2009Kids' dinosaur drawings
January 20, 2009July 25, 2009Ransoming the magic belt
July 27, 2009January 25, 2010Alley and Ooola don't get married

2010s

Start DateEnd DateDescription
January 26, 2010May 24, 2010The Lemian occupation
May 25, 2010September 6, 2010Building the Moovian border wall
September 7, 2010February 12, 2011Goob, replacement king
February 13, 2011December 15, 2011Earth-Two
December 16, 2011March 31, 2012Lola from Earth-Two in Moo
April 2, 2012June 29, 2012Lola heads to Mondovia
June 30, 2012October 29, 2012Mayan handball
October 30, 2012January 1, 2013Mayan doomsday prophecy
January 2, 2013April 18, 2013The Wizer's dinosaur invasion
April 19, 2013July 11, 2013Doowee, Moovian attorney
July 21, 2013November 7, 2013Villa Diodati
November 8, 2013December 6, 2013Alley's medical checkup
December 7, 2013June 2, 2014Ooola's Lemian adventure
June 3, 2014May 18, 2015Prehistoric World: the Movie (November 17 is a 50th-anniversary tribute to Wizard of Id)
May 19, 2015July 20, 2015Lost in Africa
July 21, 2015September 1, 2015Fixing the remote control
September 2, 2015January 26, 2016Lemian conquest of Moo
January 27, 2016June 25, 2016The Grand Wizer, Lemian spy
June 27, 2016October 15, 2016Oop as Grand Wizer
October 17, 2016April 24, 2017Volzon from Jantulle
April 25, 2017July 31, 2017The mind-control device
August 1, 2017January 6, 2018M.T. Mentis can't fix history
January 8, 2018March 15, 2018Outbreak and contagion in Moo
March 16, 2018July 6, 2018Hamilton and Washington
July 7, 2018August 11, 2018Modern conveniences
August 13, 2018September 1, 2018Back to Moo
September 2, 2018January 5, 2019reprints Villa Diodati and Alley's checkup from August 5 to December 10, 2013
January 6, 2019May 20, 2019The ransomed mixtape
May 21, 2019June 1, 2019Alley's new dinosaur Meggs
June 3, 2019June 15, 2019Wonmug catches up with Ava
June 17, 2019September 5, 2019Visiting Plato
September 6, 2019November 8, 2019Superintelligent prehistoric turtles

2020s

The slug creature in the January 17, 2020 strip is an homage to V.T. Hamlin's Venusian beast from December 30, 1950.

Start DateEnd DateDescription
November 9, 2019February 1, 2020On trial for time crimes
February 3, 2020March 10, 2020Boston Tea Party
March 11, 2020April 25, 2020Aliens and the Egyptian pyramids
April 27, 2020June 24, 2020Drew Copious tries to rule the multiverse
June 25, 2020July 18, 2020Finding Dinny
July 20, 2020August 3, 2020Ooola and the jewel thief
August 4, 2020October 20, 2020Future amusement park
October 21, 2020November 2, 2020Potato-chip rivalry
November 3, 2020December 1, 2020Ava and Zanzarr
December 2, 2020January 30, 2021The Coalition of Tiny Scientists

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