Gee Whiz!

Hi. My name is Thom. I'm an Oopaholic.

I just can't get enough of Alley Oop, by V.T. Hamlin.

Here's a little present to you other Oopaholics (and I know you're out there) from my little stash of Alley Oop strips—this starting on Christmas eve of 1967.

Tryin' T'Be a Nice, Upright Accommodating Fella

Hi — I'm Thom.

I'm a blogaholic.

Really, I'm addicted, I can't stay away. I'm hooked on scanning and sharing. I'm far from being done with my deadlines, but here I be—dragging out some old Alley Oops, cuz I've gotten some requests, asking for any I got.

Wull, here's the thing. I used to collect ol' Oop every Sunday from '64 or so 'til the late '70s. And then one day after I was married, I realized I just couldn't keep everything I ever owned, and out they went. But I couldn't toss my Pogo Sunday collection—and lo and behold, Oop was on the backside of a number of the Pogos. But not always. Editors kept switching Sunday Funny layouts. So I have a few here and a few there. Here's a few in a slightly consecutive run, with some missing. But the neat thing about the Oop strip is that not much really happens in the long run, and each strip is fun just by itself. In this run evidently someone thinks Oop is a ghost, cuz of the lightning, but not seeing that part doesn't really hurt the story line at all.

I've got some more Oops that I'll post some other day.

I just can't stay away from this bloggin' stuff. It kinda cheers my day.

Cheers to you!

Keep Goin', Oop

Collecting continuities of strips couldn't always work out. Newspaper editors would switch locations of the strips, sometimes week to week, so that one week Alley Oop was on the backside of Dotty Dripple, for example (a strip I would never collect) and the next week on the back of Pogo, which I always collected. So Alley Oop suffered a lot of breaks in the story line, not that the stories were that complex. Plus many times one Alley Oop looked like any other Alley Oop when they were back in Moo, which was 99% of the time in the mid 60s. So I ended up trading off a bunch of those. But I kept a few, and these two were continuous, though the format changed from one week to the next, as the editors were wont to do.

Wah Wah TeeOoo

I always liked the graphic quality of the Alley Oop strips, but always felt disappointed that the Sundays dropped the time machine storylines long before I started clipping. Never-the-less, I clipped and kept some just for the fun that Oop had in ancient Moo. A whole lot of nothing went on back then, a bit along the lines of Seinfeld. Picture it: a strip about . . . nothing!