# 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'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." The name of Alley's girlfriend, Ooola, was a play on a different French phrase: oh là là.

## 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 George Oscar Boom (G. O. Boom). Laboratory assistant Ava Peckedge joined the cast in 1986.

## Syndication history

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. In 1974 Graue retained an assistant, Dave Olson, to ink and letter the strips. Olson worked on the strip until his retirement at the end of 1990; starting in 1991, Graue hired Jack Bender to finish the daily strips and produce the Sundays.
Graue initially decided to retire at the end of 1991, and the syndicate selected Jack Bender as the strip's new creator. However, Bender was primarily interested in the art chores; he re-hired Graue to stay on as writer and recruited his wife Carole, a calligrapher. This team produced the strip from the last week of December 1991 through the end of August 2001; Graue wrote the strip and thumbnailed the art, from which Jack drew the strip and Carole lettered it. Graue finally retired in 2001, satisfied in having completed fifty years working on the strip. NEA then hired Carole as the new writer, based largely on the strength of an Alley Oop Christmas story that Carole had written and Jack had drawn, separately from the main Alley Oop strip, for the 1997 holiday season. Starting September 3, 2001, Alley Oop Sunday and daily strips were drawn entirely by Jack Bender and written, lettered, and colored by his wife Carole Bender. (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.
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, Emmy Lou, Tumbleweeds, and Nancy.
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.
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.

## In popular culture

The long-running success of the strip made the character a pop culture icon referred to in fiction, pop music and dance:
* The Belgian comic-strip series Suske en Wiske, by Willy Vandersteen, features a caveman inspired by Alley Oop.
* An educated Neanderthal known as "Alley Oop" is a character in Clifford D. Simak's science-fiction novel The Goblin Reservation, published in 1968.
* "O. Paley" (whose name was a loose anagram of "Alley Oop") was the central figure in Philip José Farmer's The Alley Man, a 1959 novella about the last Neanderthal who has survived into the 20th century.
* The character was the subject of the 1960 number-one single "Alley Oop", which was the only hit for the short-lived studio band The Hollywood Argyles. It was written and composed in 1957 by Dallas Frazier. Musicians on the record included Kim Fowley and Sandy Nelson. The song was later covered, most famously by the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band but also by Dante & the Evergreens, The Royal Guardsmen, Sha-Na-Na, The Beach Boys, Dave Van Ronk and George Thorogood & the Destroyers, and it was included in choreographer Twyla Tharp's 1970s ballet Deuce Coupe.
* Alley Oop is mentioned in the 1971 David Bowie song Life on Mars.
* There is an Alley Oop museum and fantasy land theme park in Iraan, Texas

## 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. In the daily strip on June 21, 1969, Wonmug's birthdate is given as May 10, 1900 (which was also V.T. Hamlin's birthday).
Dinny, Alley Oop's pet dinosaur, was designed as an amalgam of different features and was not meant to resemble any known dinosaur. Dinny's species is identified as a "Cartoonosaurus" in the daily strip on April 12, 1968.
| Name | First Appeared | Description |
| Alley Oop | August 7, 1933 | A time-traveling caveman |
| Dinny | August 12, 1933 | Oop's pet dinosaur |
| King Guzzle | September 8, 1933 | Ruler of Moo |
| Foozy | September 21, 1933 | Oop's pal, who talks in rhyme |
| Pooky, the Grand Wizer | September 23, 1933 | Advisor to the king |
| Queen Umpateedle | September 28, 1933 | Queen of Moo |
| Ooola | October 10, 1933 | Oop's girlfriend |
| Dr. Elbert Wonmug | April 7, 1939 | 20th-century scientist and inventor |
| G. Oscar Boom | February 28, 1940 | Rival and partner to Wonmug |
| Avery S. Peckedge ("Ava") | August 21, 1986 | Dr. Wonmug's laboratory assistant |
| Penelope | February 9, 2020 | Time-traveling child scientist (Sundays only) |

## 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.
Dave Wowee, Wonmug's great-great-great-grandson, was named in honor of (and drawn to resemble) Dave Graue, who typically told people that his last name "rhymes with Wowee".
| Name | First Appeared | Description |
| Wootietoot | September 28, 1933 | Guz and Umpa's daughter |
| Clab Tunk | March 21, 1934 | Ruler of Lem |
| Dootsy Bobo | May 7, 1934 | Moovian mischief-maker and rival for Ooola's affections |
| Wur | May 26, 1936 | Ruler of Sawalla |
| Eeny | December 28, 1937 | Stone-age analog for Hitler |
| Zel | September 3, 1938 | Ooola's cousin and Foozy's wife (married on February 20, 1939) |
| Jon | April 7, 1939 | Dr. Wonmug's lab assistant |
| Dee | April 15, 1939 | Dr. Wonmug's daughter |
| G.I. Tum | June 24, 1939 | Federal agent |
| Dr. Amos Bronson | July 22, 1939 | Historian and Wonmug's friend |
| Moe, Beau, and Joe | January 27, 1943 | Foozy's triplets |
| Eustace | November 20, 1953 | Alley's warhorse |
| Sonny Boy | June 11, 1954 | Dinny's descendant, a twenty-or-so-million-year-old dragon |
| Brunnehilde | August 11, 1954 | Doc Wonmug's barbarian love interest |
| Jack East | February 25, 1957 | Riverboat gambler |
| Oxy Twenty-Four | January 14, 1959 | An ancient moon-man |
| The Gink | September 15, 1970 | A mind-reading Bigfoot |
| Toko | January 31, 1972 | a young Moovian boy |
| Ferdy | February 19, 1978 | a good-natured Moovian with much brawn but little brain (Sundays only) |
| Wanda the Witch ("Granny") | January 18, 1979 | A practitioner of magic arts and the Wizer's peer |
| Dave Wowee | September 21, 2002 | Doc Wonmug's great-great-great-grandson from 2145 |

## Collections and reprints
### Books

| Title | Publication Year | Publisher | Dates reprinted |
| Alley Oop: The Sawalla Chronicles | 1983 | Ken Pierce Inc. | April 10 – August 28, 1936 (a few strips omitted) |
| Alley Oop by Dave Graue | 1983 | TOR Publications | May 14, July 6–13, Sept 18–20, November 24 – December 31, 1979; January 1 – February 4, 1980; September 8 – December 1, 1981; April 5–24, April 28 – June 12, 1982 |
| Alley Oop Volume 1: The Adventures of a Time-Traveling Caveman | 1990 | Kitchen Sink Press | July 20, 1946 – June 20, 1947 |
| Alley Oop Volume 2: The Sphinx and Alley Oop | 1991 | Kitchen Sink Press | June 21, 1947 – August 30, 1948 |
| Alley Oop Volume 3: First Trip to the Moon | 1995 | Kitchen Sink Press | August 31, 1948 – November 9, 1949 |
| Alley Oop: Book 4 | 2003 | Manuscript Press | November 10, 1949 – November 10, 1950 |
| The Library of American Comics Essentials Volume 4: Alley Oop 1939: The First Time Travel Adventure | 2014 | Idea & Design Works' The Library of American Comics | March 6, 1939 – March 23, 1940 |
| Alley Oop: The Complete Sundays Volume 1 | 2014 | Dark Horse | September 9, 1934 – December 27, 1936 |
| Alley Oop: The Complete Sundays Volume 2 | 2014 | Dark Horse | January 3, 1937 – April 30, 1939 |
| Alley Oop Goes Modern: The Complete Sundays Volume 3 | 2022 | Acoustic Learning | May 7, 1939 – December 28, 1941 |
| Alley Oop In World War II: The Complete Sundays Volume 4 | 2023 | Acoustic Learning | January, 1942 – August, 1944 |
| Rollerboning with Alley Oop: The Complete Sundays 1976–1978 | 2024 | Acoustic Learning | January 1976 – December 1978 |
| Alley Oop Against the Outlanders: The Complete Sundays 1979–1981 | 2024 | Acoustic Learning | January 1979 – December 1981 |
| Alley Oop In the Land of Giants: The Complete Sundays 1982–1984 | 2023 | Acoustic Learning | January 1982 – December 1984 |
| Alley Oop and Mini-Dinny: The Complete Sundays 1985–1987 | 2024 | Acoustic Learning | January 1985 – December 1987 |
| Alley Oop and the Dinosaur from Outer Space: The Complete Sundays 1994–1996 | 2025 | Acoustic Learning | January 1994 – December 1996 |
| Alley Oop and the Magic Staff: The Complete Sundays 1997–1999 | 2025 | Acoustic Learning | January 1997 – December 1999 |
| Alley Oop Meets Earlie Oop: The Complete Sundays 2000–2002 | 2025 | Acoustic Learning | January 2000 – December 2002 |
| Alley Oop Is Ooperman: The Complete Sundays 2003–2005 | 2025 | Acoustic Learning | January 2003 – December 2005 |
| Alley Oop and Dinny | 2022 | Acoustic Learning | December 5, 1932 – April 26, 1933 (aka Bonnet–Brown #1–120); August 7 – December 31, 1933 |
| War with Lem | 2022 | Acoustic Learning | January 1 – December 31, 1934 |
| Invasion of Moo | 2022 | Acoustic Learning | January 1 – December 31, 1935 |
| Sawalla | 2022 | Acoustic Learning | January 1 – December 31, 1936 |
| Chief Bighorn | 2022 | Acoustic Learning | January 1 – December 31, 1937 |
| Mootoo | 2022 | Acoustic Learning | January 1 – December 31, 1938 |
| Alley Oop: The First Time-Travel Adventures | 2024 | Acoustic Learning | January 1, 1939 – December 31, 1942 |
| Alley Oop and the Sword of Genghis Khan | 2025 | Acoustic Learning | January 1 – December 31, 1943 |
| Alley Oop and King Solomon's Mines | 2025 | Acoustic Learning | January 1 – December 31, 1944 |
| Alley Oop In Ancient China | 2025 | Acoustic Learning | January 1 – December 31, 1945 |
| Alley Oop In the Ancient Lost Atlantis (includes color Sunday strips for Atlantis story) | 2025 | Acoustic Learning | January 1, 1946 – December 31, 1946 |
| Alley Oop Meets Napoleon | 2026 | Acoustic Learning | January 1 – December 31, 1947 |
| Alley Oop In Egypt | 2026 | Acoustic Learning | January 1 – December 31, 1948 |
| Alley Oop Meets Julius Caesar (includes daily and color Sunday strips) | 2025 | Acoustic Learning | January 1, 1949 – December 31, 1950 |
| Alley Oop Is Gladiator XVIII | 2026 | Acoustic Learning | January 1 – December 31, 1951 |
| Alley Oop In Witchland | 2026 | Acoustic Learning | January 1 – December 31, 1952 |
| Alley Oop Meets Macbeth | 2026 | Acoustic Learning | January 1 – December 31, 1953 |
| Alley Oop and the Dragon of Iron Castle | 2023 | Acoustic Learning | January 1 – December 31, 1954 |
| Alley Oop and the Tiger Tail Transplant | 2023 | Acoustic Learning | January 1 – December 31, 1955 |
| Alley Oop Races Blarney Goldfield | 2023 | Acoustic Learning | January 1 – December 31, 1956 |
| Alley Oop On the Mississippi | 2023 | Acoustic Learning | January 1 – December 31, 1957 |
| Alley Oop: Back to the Moon | 2023 | Acoustic Learning | January 1 – December 31, 1958 |
| Alley Oop and the Million-Dollar Nugget | 2023 | Acoustic Learning | January 1 – December 31, 1959 |
| Alley Oop and the Fountain of Youth | 2024 | Acoustic Learning | January 1 – December 31, 1960 |
| Alley Oop Versus the Moonmen | 2024 | Acoustic Learning | January 1 – December 31, 1961 |
| Alley Oop and the Brain Butcher | 2024 | Acoustic Learning | January 1 – December 31, 1962 |
| Alley Oop and the Dragon of Silene | 2024 | Acoustic Learning | January 1 – December 31, 1963 |
| Alley Oop On Mount Olympus | 2024 | Acoustic Learning | January 1 – December 31, 1964 |
| Alley Oop: The Ice Age | 2024 | Acoustic Learning | January 1 – December 31, 1965 |
| Alley Oop and the Man from 2166 | 2025 | Acoustic Learning | January 1 – December 31, 1966 |
| Alley Oop and the Neanderthals | 2025 | Acoustic Learning | January 1 – December 31, 1967 |
| Alley Oop In Youtopia | 2025 | Acoustic Learning | January 1 – December 31, 1968 |
| Alley Oop and the Beanstalk | 2025 | Acoustic Learning | January 1 – December 31, 1969 |
| Alley Oop and the Fabulous Ghost Racer | 2025 | Acoustic Learning | January 1 – December 31, 1970 |
| Alley Oop and the Mad Mod Mechanical Man | 2025 | Acoustic Learning | January 1 – December 31, 1971 |
| Alley Oop and Sir Clank of Far Outman | 2025 | Acoustic Learning | January 1 – December 31, 1972 |
| Alley Oop on the Island of Dinnys | 2025 | Acoustic Learning | January 1 – December 31, 1973 |
| Alley Oop and Han Sin's Kite | 2022 | Acoustic Learning | January 1 – December 31, 1974 |
| Alley Oop and the Thorn King of Nerr | 2022 | Acoustic Learning | January 1 – December 31, 1975 |
| Alley Oop and the Hunt for the Texas Pterosaurs | 2022 | Acoustic Learning | January 1 – December 31, 1976 |
| Alley Oop and the Great Moovian Migration | 2022 | Acoustic Learning | January 1 – December 31, 1977 |
| Alley Oop on the Planet of Delfon | 2022 | Acoustic Learning | January 1 – December 31, 1978 |
| Alley Oop In Wonderland | 2022 | Acoustic Learning | January 1 – December 31, 1979 |
| Alley Oop and The Seven Cities of Gold | 2023 | Acoustic Learning | January 1 – December 31, 1980 |
| Alley Oop Meets Draculina | 2023 | Acoustic Learning | January 1 – December 31, 1981 |
| Alley Oop On the Trail of the Swamp Fox | 2023 | Acoustic Learning | January 1 – December 31, 1982 |
| Alley Oop Versus the Black Knight | 2023 | Acoustic Learning | January 1 – December 31, 1983 |
| Alley Oop and the First Prehistoric Olympic Games | 2023 | Acoustic Learning | January 1 – December 31, 1984 |
| Alley Oop and the Captive Prince | 2023 | Acoustic Learning | January 1 – December 31, 1985 |
| Alley Oop In the Land of No Return | 2024 | Acoustic Learning | January 1 – December 31, 1986 |
| Alley Oop: Under the Sea | 2024 | Acoustic Learning | January 1 – December 31, 1987 |
| Alley Oop and the Hubots of Talaxia | 2024 | Acoustic Learning | January 1 – December 31, 1988 |
| Alley Oop Meets Fang | 2024 | Acoustic Learning | January 1 – December 31, 1989 |
| Alley Oop and the Monarchs of Gorp | 2024 | Acoustic Learning | January 1 – December 31, 1990 |
| Alley Oop In Sparta | 2024 | Acoustic Learning | January 1 – December 31, 1991 |
| Alley Oop and the Beast of the Woods | 2024 | Acoustic Learning | January 1 – December 31, 1992 |
| Alley Oop and the Art Invasion | 2024 | Acoustic Learning | January 1 – December 31, 1993 |
| Alley Oop and the Mesmeric Menace | 2024 | Acoustic Learning | January 1 – December 31, 1994 |
| Alley Oop Versus the Nightlings | 2024 | Acoustic Learning | January 1 – December 31, 1995 |
| Alley Oop and the Fire Goddess | 2024 | Acoustic Learning | January 1 – December 31, 1996 |
| Alley Oop and the Minotaur | 2024 | Acoustic Learning | January 1 – December 31, 1997 |
| Alley Oop and the Zan of Zoron | 2025 | Acoustic Learning | January 1 – December 31, 1998 |
| Alley Oop and the Counterfeit Queen | 2025 | Acoustic Learning | January 1 – December 31, 1999 |
| Alley Oop and the Mighty Kafrak | 2025 | Acoustic Learning | January 1 – December 31, 2000 |
| Alley Oop and the Slavers | 2025 | Acoustic Learning | January 1 – December 31, 2001 |

### Magazines

In addition to the magazines mentioned in the table below, Comics Revue has also reprinted Alley Oop daily and Sunday strips. The Menomonee Falls Guardian, published weekly, reprinted one week of daily strips in each issue. The Menomonee Falls Guardian Special #1–3 were sold separately; Special #4 was an insert included with issue #100.
| Title | Publication Year | Publisher | Dates reprinted |
| The Menomonee Falls Guardian Special issues 1–4 | 1973–1975 | Street Enterprises | October 2, 1973 – July 27, 1974 (December 25, 1973, omitted) |
| The Menomonee Falls Guardian issues 2–59 | July 2, 1973 – August 5, 1974 | Street Enterprises | January 3, 1949 – February 11, 1950 |
| The Menomonee Falls Guardian issues 60–146 | August 12, 1974 – May 3, 1976 | Street Enterprises | July 29, 1974 – March 27, 1976 |
| Favorite Funnies issues 1–12 | September 14 – November 30, 1973 | Dynapubs Enterprises | May 12 – August 2, 1941 (one week of daily strips per weekly issue) |
| Storyline Strips (75 issues) | August 1997 – September 2000 | American Publishing Corp. | Two weeks of current daily strips per weekly issue |
| Yesterday's Comics issue 3 | 1974 | Nostalgia Inc. | April 3–15, 1939 |
| Nemo Classics Comics Library issue 6 | 1984 | Fantagraphics | Sunday strips: September 9, 1934; January 6 and November 24, 1935; December 12, 1937; January 8, April 2, 9, 16, October 8, and November 19, 1939 |
| Alley Oop #1: The Legend Begins | 1987 | Dragon Lady Press | August 7, 1933 – January 27, 1934 |
| Alley Oop #2: Enter the Time Machine | 1987 | Dragon Lady Press | March 6, 1939 – October 25, 1939 |
| Alley Oop #3: Oop vs. Hercules | 1988 | Dragon Lady Press | October 26, 1939 – July 30, 1940 |
| Alley Oop Magazine #0 (Introductory issue) | 1997 | Spec Productions | December 5, 1932 – January 3, 1933 August 7 – September 2, 1933 December 19, 1993 – February 20, 1994 (Sundays) September 15 – November 8, 1980 |
| Alley Oop Magazine #1 | 1998 | Spec Productions | July 3 - September 28, 1940; September 8–13, 1941 June 5–13, 1962 February 27 – March 27, 1994 & May 7, 1995 (Sundays) November 10 - December 25, 1980 |
| Alley Oop Magazine #2 | 1998 | Spec Productions | January 9–30, 1933 & Bonnet–Brown #49–75 August 4 – December 22, 1996 (Sundays) September 30 – November 25, 1940 |
| Alley Oop Magazine #3 | 1998 | Spec Productions | November 26, 1940 – May 31, 1941 |
| Alley Oop Magazine #4 | 1998 | Spec Productions | Bonnet–Brown #75–101 April 10 – September 18, 1994 (Sundays) May 30 – August 5, 1983 June 3 – July 7, 1941 |
| Alley Oop Magazine #5 | 1998 | Spec Productions | August 8 – October 11, 1983 July 9 – October 21, 1941 |
| Alley Oop Magazine #6 | 1999 | Spec Productions | October 21, 1941 – April 21, 1942 |
| Alley Oop Magazine #7 | 2000 | Spec Productions | April 21 – August 13, 1942 January 16 – March 26, 1991 |
| Alley Oop Magazine #8 | 2000 | Spec Productions | August 14, 1942 – January 16, 1943 March 27 – April 15, 1991 |
| Alley Oop Magazine #9 | 2000 | Spec Productions | January 16 – May 1, 1943 April 16 – July 6, 1991 |
| Alley Oop Magazine #10 | 2000 | Spec Productions | May 3 – October 27, 1943 |
| Alley Oop Magazine #11 | 2001 | Spec Productions | October 28, 1943 – May 13, 1944 |
| Alley Oop Magazine #12 | 2001 | Spec Productions | May 15 – November 21, 1944 |
| Alley Oop Magazine #13 | 2002 | Spec Productions | Bonnet–Brown #102–120 November 22, 1944 – January 27, 1945 December 2, 1981 – February 6, 1982 |
| Alley Oop Magazine #14 | 2002 | Spec Productions | January 29 – June 30, 1945 February 10 – March 31, 2002 (Sundays) |
| Alley Oop Magazine #15 | 2002 | Spec Productions | July 2, 1945 – January 11, 1946 |
| Alley Oop Magazine #16 | 2003 | Spec Productions | January 12 – July 19, 1946 (includes color Sundays from April 7 – June 2) September 23 & 27 and Sunday, December 1, 2002 |
| Alley Oop Magazine #17 | 2003 | Spec Productions | November 11, 1950 – May 21, 1951 |
| Alley Oop Magazine #18 | 2004 | Spec Productions | May 22 – December 31, 1951 |
| Alley Oop Magazine #19 | 2004 | Spec Productions | January 1 – July 5, 1952 |
| Alley Oop Magazine #20 | 2004 | Spec Productions | July 7 – December 23, 1952 |
| Alley Oop Magazine #21 | 2005 | Spec Productions | December 24, 1952 – June 13, 1953 |
| Alley Oop Magazine #22 | 2006 | Spec Productions | June 15 – December 31, 1953 |
| Alley Oop Magazine #23 | 2006 | Spec Productions | January 1 – June 30, 1954 |
| Alley Oop Magazine #24 | 2006 | Spec Productions | July 1 – December 30, 1954 |
| Alley Oop Magazine #25 | 2007 | Spec Productions | January 1 – July 1, 1955 |
| Alley Oop Magazine #26 | 2007 | Spec Productions | July 1 – December 31, 1955 |
| Alley Oop Magazine #27 | 2008 | Spec Productions | January 1 – June 30, 1956 |
| Alley Oop Magazine #28 | 2008 | Spec Productions | August 2, 1956 – January 1, 1957 |
| Alley Oop Magazine #29 | 2010 | Spec Productions | January – June, 1957 |
| Alley Oop Magazine #30 | | Spec Productions | July – December, 1957 |
| Alley Oop Magazine #31 | | Spec Productions | January – June, 1958 |
| Alley Oop Magazine #32 | 2012 | Spec Productions | July – December, 1958 |
| Alley Oop Magazine #33 | | Spec Productions | January – June, 1959 |
| Alley Oop Magazine #34 | 2013 | Spec Productions | July – December 31, 1959 |

### Comics

Various strips have also been reprinted in comic-book form. The comic books tended to alter the original reading experience by colorizing the daily 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.
Famous Funnies and The Funnies re-lettered their Sunday-strip reprints, enlarging the text and simplifying the language, so that the comic would be more legible when reduced from tabloid to comic-book size. Although the first seven issues of Red Ryder Comics' Sunday-strip reprints were unaltered, in every subsequent issue the panels were enlarged, redrawn, rearranged or deleted.
The Antarctic Press series featured a combination of original material, direct reprints of newspaper comics, and redrawn adaptations of newspaper-strip stories. The reprints rearranged, resized, and sometimes omitted panels. These reprints and adaptations are noted in the list of storylines.
| Issue | Publication Date | Publisher | Dates covered |
| Famous Funnies #19–25 | February–August 1936 | Eastern Color Printing Co. | October 28 – December 9, 1934 (one Sunday page per issue) |
| The Funnies #1 | October 1936 | Dell Publishing Co. | November 17 – December 8, 1935 (Sundays) |
| The Funnies #2 | November 1936 | Dell Publishing Co. | December 15, 1935 – January 6, 1936 (Sundays) |
| The Funnies #3 | December 1936 | Dell Publishing Co. | January 13 – February 3, 1936 (Sundays) |
| The Funnies #4 | January 1937 | Dell Publishing Co. | February 10–17 & March 1–8, 1936 (Sundays) |
| The Funnies #5 | February 1937 | Dell Publishing Co. | March 15 – April 5, 1936 (Sundays) |
| The Funnies #6 | March 1937 | Dell Publishing Co. | April 12 – May 3, 1936 (Sundays) |
| The Funnies #7 | April 1937 | Dell Publishing Co. | May 10–31, 1936 (Sundays, with panels removed) |
| The Funnies #8 | May 1937 | Dell Publishing Co. | June 7–28, 1936 (Sundays, with panels removed) |
| The Funnies #9 | June 1937 | Dell Publishing Co. | July 5–26, 1936 (Sundays, with panels removed) |
| The Funnies #10 | July 1937 | Dell Publishing Co. | August 2, 23, 30 & September 6, 1936 (Sundays, with panels removed) |
| The Funnies #11 | August 1937 | Dell Publishing Co. | September 13 – October 4, 1936 (Sundays, with panels removed) |
| The Funnies #12 | September 1937 | Dell Publishing Co. | October 11 – November 1, 1936 (Sundays, with panels removed) |
| The Funnies #13 | October 1937 | Dell Publishing Co. | November 8–29, 1936 (Sundays, with panels removed) |
| The Funnies #14 | November 1937 | Dell Publishing Co. | December 13–27, 1936 (Sundays, with panels removed) |
| The Funnies #15 | December 1937 | Dell Publishing Co. | January 3–24, 1937 (Sundays, with panels removed) |
| The Funnies #16 | January 1938 | Dell Publishing Co. | December 6, 1936 & February 7–21, 1937 (Sundays, with panels removed) |
| The Funnies #17 | February 1938 | Dell Publishing Co. | February 28 – March 31, 1937 (Sundays, with panels removed) |
| The Funnies #18 | March 1938 | Dell Publishing Co. | March 28 – April 18, 1937 (Sundays, with panels removed) |
| The Funnies #19 | April 1938 | Dell Publishing Co. | April 25 – May 16, 1937 (Sundays, with panels removed) |
| The Funnies #20 | May 1938 | Dell Publishing Co. | May 23 – June 13, 1937 (Sundays, with panels removed) |
| The Funnies #21 | June 1938 | Dell Publishing Co. | June 20 – July 11, 1937 (Sundays, with panels removed) |
| The Funnies #22 | July 1938 | Dell Publishing Co. | July 18 – August 8, 1937 (Sundays, with panels removed) |
| The Funnies #23 | August 1938 | Dell Publishing Co. | August 15 – September 5, 1937 (Sundays, with panels removed) |
| The Funnies #24 | September 1938 | Dell Publishing Co. | September 12 – October 3, 1937 (Sundays, with panels removed) |
| The Funnies #25 | October 1938 | Dell Publishing Co. | October 10–31, 1937 (Sundays, with panels removed) |
| The Funnies #26 | November 1938 | Dell Publishing Co. | November 7–28, 1937 (Sundays, with panels removed) |
| The Funnies #27 | December 1938 | Dell Publishing Co. | December 5–26, 1937 (Sundays, with panels removed) |
| The Funnies #28 | January 1939 | Dell Publishing Co. | January 2–23, 1937 (Sundays, with panels removed) |
| The Funnies #29 | February 1939 | Dell Publishing Co. | January 30 – February 20, 1937 (Sundays, with panels removed) |
| The Funnies #30 | April 1939 | Dell Publishing Co. | November 15–27, 1937 |
| The Funnies #31 | May 1939 | Dell Publishing Co. | November 29 – December 11, 1937 |
| The Funnies #32 | June 1939 | Dell Publishing Co. | December 13–29, 1938 |
| The Funnies #33 | July 1939 | Dell Publishing Co. | December 30, 1937 – January 15, 1938 |
| The Funnies #34 | August 1939 | Dell Publishing Co. | January 17–29, 1938 |
| The Funnies #35 | September 1939 | Dell Publishing Co. | January 31 – February 12, 1938 |
| The Funnies #36 | October 1939 | Dell Publishing Co. | February 14 – March 7, 1938 |
| The Funnies #37 | November 1939 | Dell Publishing Co. | March 8–21, 1938 |
| The Funnies #38 | December 1939 | Dell Publishing Co. | March 22 – April 6, 1938 |
| The Funnies #39 | January 1940 | Dell Publishing Co. | April 6–22, 1938 |
| The Funnies #40 | February 1940 | Dell Publishing Co. | April 22 – May 3, 1938 |
| The Funnies #41 | March 1940 | Dell Publishing Co. | May 4–16, 1938 |
| The Funnies #42 | April 1940 | Dell Publishing Co. | May 17–27, 1938 |
| The Funnies #43 | May 1940 | Dell Publishing Co. | May 27 – June 7, 1938 |
| The Funnies #44 | June 1940 | Dell Publishing Co. | June 7–17, 1938 |
| The Comics #3 | May 1937 | Dell Publishing Co. | June 10–21, 1935 |
| The Comics #4 | July 1937 | Dell Publishing Co. | June 22–29 & July 10–15, 1935 |
| The Comics #5 | September 1937 | Dell Publishing Co. | July 1–9 & 16–19, 1935 |
| Four Color Comic #3 | 1938 | Dell Publishing Co. | December 11, 1937 – July 19, 1938 |
| Red Ryder Comics #6 | April 1942 | KK Publications | June 11 & 18, July 2 & 9, 1939 (Sundays) |
| Red Ryder Comics #7 | May/June 1942 | KK Publications | July 16 – August 6, 1939 (Sundays) |
| Red Ryder Comics #8 | July/August 1942 | KK Publications | August 13 – September 3, 1939 (Sundays) |
| Red Ryder Comics #9 | September/October 1942 | KK Publications | September 17 – October 1, 1939 (Sundays) |
| Red Ryder Comics #10 | November/December 1942 | KK Publications | October 8–22 & November 5, 1939 (Sundays) |
| Red Ryder Comics #11 | January/February 1943 | KK Publications | November 12 – December 3, 1939 (Sundays) |
| Red Ryder Comics #12 | March/April 1943 | KK Publications | December 10–31, 1939 (Sundays) |
| Red Ryder Comics #13 | May/June 1943 | KK Publications | January 7–28, 1940 (Sundays, panels rearranged) |
| Red Ryder Comics #14 | July/August 1943 | KK Publications | January 28 – February 18, 1940 (Sundays, panels rearranged) |
| Red Ryder Comics #15 | September/October 1943 | KK Publications | February 18 – March 10, 1940 (Sundays, panels rearranged) |
| Red Ryder Comics #16 | November/December 1943 | KK Publications | March 17 – April 7, 1940 (Sundays, panels rearranged) |
| Red Ryder Comics #17 | January/February 1944 | KK Publications | April 14 – May 5, 1940 (Sundays, panels rearranged) |
| Red Ryder Comics #18 | March/April 1944 | KK Publications | May 12 – June 2, 1940 (Sundays, panels rearranged) |
| Red Ryder Comics #19 | May/June 1944 | KK Publications | May 12 – June 30, 1940 (Sundays, panels rearranged) |
| Red Ryder Comics #20 | July/August 1944 | KK Publications | July 7–28, 1940 (Sundays, panels rearranged) |
| Red Ryder Comics #21 | September/October 1944 | KK Publications | August 4–25, 1940 (Sundays, panels rearranged) |
| Red Ryder Comics #22 | November/December 1944 | KK Publications | September 1–22, 1940 (Sundays, panels rearranged) |
| Red Ryder Comics #23 | January/February 1944 | KK Publications | September 29 – October 13, 1940 (Sundays, panels rearranged) |
| Red Ryder Comics #24 | March/April 1945 | KK Publications | October 20 – November 3, 1940 (Sundays, panels rearranged) |
| Red Ryder Comics #25 | May/June 1945 | KK Publications | November 10, 24 & December 1, 1940 (Sundays, panels rearranged) |
| Red Ryder Comics #26 | July/August 1945 | KK Publications | December 8 & 15, 1940 (Sundays, panels rearranged) |
| Red Ryder Comics #27 | September/October 1945 | KK Publications | December 22 & 29, 1940 (Sundays, panels rearranged) |
| Red Ryder Comics #28 | November 1945 | KK Publications | January 5 & 12, 1941 (Sundays, panels rearranged) |
| Red Ryder Comics #29 | December 1945 | KK Publications | January 19 & February 16, 1941 (Sundays, panels rearranged) |
| Red Ryder Comics #30 | January 1946 | KK Publications | February 23 & March 2, 1941 (Sundays, panels rearranged) |
| Red Ryder Comics #31 | February 1946 | KK Publications | March 9 & 16, 1941 (Sundays, panels rearranged) |
| Red Ryder Comics #32 | March 1946 | KK Publications | March 23 & 30, 1941 (Sundays, panels rearranged) |
| Alley Oop #10 | September 1947 | Visual Editions Inc. | April 15 – November 9, 1935 |
| Alley Oop #11 | December 1947 | Visual Editions Inc. | November 3 – December 26, 1939; March 15 – April 26, 1940 |
| Alley Oop #12 | March 1948 | Visual Editions Inc. | |
| Alley Oop #13 | June 1948 | Visual Editions Inc. | April 12 – June 21, 1941; July 12 – August 2, 1941 |
| Alley Oop #14 | September 1948 | Visual Editions Inc. | August 4 – September 22, 1941; October 8 – November 24, 1941 |
| Alley Oop #15 | December 1948 | Visual Editions Inc. | October 25, 1940 – March 21, 1941 |
| Alley Oop #16 | March 1949 | Visual Editions Inc. | April 29, 1940, to ? |
| Alley Oop #17 | June 1949 | Visual Editions Inc. | August 16 – November 24, 1944 |
| Alley Oop #18 | October 1949 | Visual Editions Inc. | July 29 – December 2, 1946 |
| Alley Oop #1 | November 1955 | Argo Publishing Co. | June 15 – September 9 and October 24, 1953 |
| Alley Oop #2 | January 1956 | Argo Publishing Co. | from 1953: dailies September 22 – October 3, October 12–16, October 27 – November 12; Sundays May 24 – June 14 (some panels omitted) |
| Alley Oop #3 | March 1956 | Argo Publishing Co. | March 22 – June 5, 1954 |
| Alley Oop Adventures #1 | August 1998 | Antarctic Press | Two original stories, two adaptations, and one reprint |
| Alley Oop Adventures #2 | October 1998 | Antarctic Press | One original story; three original one-page features; two adaptations |
| Alley Oop Adventures #3 | December 1998 | Antarctic Press | Two original stories, later adapted into Sunday strips; one original one-page feature; one reprint; one adaptation |
| Alley Oop Adventures #1 | September 1999 | Antarctic Press | One original story, later published as Sunday strips; two reprints; one Jack Bender tryout strip, later published as a Sunday strip |
| Alley Oop Adventures #2 | December 1999 | Antarctic Press | Three original stories, two later adapted into Sunday strips; one reprint; one Jack Bender tryout strip |
| Alley Oop Adventures #3 | March 2000 | Antarctic Press | Two 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