Question: How many strips of the most popular strip by the creator of Li'l Folks ran in total?
Context: Tiger was a British comic magazine published from 1954 to 1985.  The comic was launched under the editorship of Derek Birnage on 11 September 1954, under the name "Tiger – The Sport and Adventure Picture Story Weekly", and featured predominantly sporting strips.  Its most popular strip was Roy of the Rovers, a football-based strip recounting the life of Roy Race and the team he played for, Melchester Rovers.  This strip proved so successful it was spun out of "Tiger" and into its own comic. Footrot Flats is a comic strip by New Zealand cartoonist Murray Ball.  It ran from 1976 until 1994 in newspapers around the world, though unpublished strips continued to appear in book form until 2000.  Altogether there are 27 numbered books (collecting the newspaper strips, with additional material), a further 8 books collecting the Sunday newspaper strips, and 5 smaller 'pocket' books of original material, plus various related publications.  There was also a stage musical, an animated feature film called "", and even a theme park in Auckland, New Zealand.  The strip reached its peak of popularity in the mid-1980s, with the books selling millions of copies in Australasia.  At various times, Ball cited different reasons for quitting the strip, including the death of his own dog, and his displeasure with the direction of New Zealand politics. Shiver and Shake was a British comic magazine published every Monday by IPC Magazines Ltd.  It ran from (issues dates) 10 March 1973 to 5 October 1974, when it merged with "Whoopee! ".  As in the tradition of British comics many names of strips were a play on popular television programmes and films of the time.  Similar to "Monster Fun" later, the theme of the strips were mainly horror (albeit of a comic nature).  Indeed Frankie Stein appeared in both comics.  Borrowing from the successful "Whizzer and Chips", it was two comics in one; "Shake" being a pull-out section from "Shiver".  The main star of "Shiver" was a ghost of the same name, whilst "Shake" was an elephant.  Both had their own strips in their respective sections ("The Duke's Spook" and "Shake"), "The Duke's Spook" changing to "Shiver" after its merger.  In 1973, the comic also featured a one page strip starring stand-up comedian Charlie Williams.  Other strips in "Shiver and Shake" included: The Amazing Spider-Man is a daily comic strip featuring the character Spider-Man.  It is a dramatic, soap opera style strip with story arcs which typically run for 8 to 12 weeks.  While the strip uses many of the same characters as the Spider-Man comic book, the storylines are nearly all originals and do not share the same continuity.  A consistently popular strip, it has been published since 1977. Bias tape or bias binding is a narrow strip of fabric, cut on the bias.  The strip's fibers, being at 45 degrees to the length of the strip, makes it stretchier as well as more fluid and more drapeable compared to a strip that is cut on the grain.  Many strips can be pieced together into a long "tape."  The tape's width varies from about 1/2" to about 3" depending on applications.  Bias tape is used in making piping, binding seams, finishing raw edges, etc.  It is often used on the edges of quilts, placemats, and bibs, around armhole and neckline edges instead of a facing, and as a simple strap or tie for casual bags or clothing. Over the years "The Beano" has had many different strips ranging from comic strips to adventure strips to prose stories.  However eventually the "Beano" changed from having all these different types of strips to having only comic strips.  Prose stories were the first to go being phased out in 1955.  Adventure Strips were phased out in 1975 with the last adventure strip being General Jumbo however there have been unsuccessful attempts to reintroduce adventure strips with new series of Billy the Cat and Katie in 2003, 2005 and 2009.  The longest running strip in the Beano is Dennis the Menace which has been running for over sixty years.  Lord Snooty which first appeared in the first issue of the Beano and after having been discontinued and then brought back a number of times is the only strip currently in the comic to have appeared in the first issue.  Other long-running strips include Biffo the Bear, Minnie the Minx, Roger the Dodger, The Bash Street Kids, Little Plum and Billy Whizz.  Currently the Beano has been home to 371 different strips with a further seventeen strips appearing in Comic Idol competitions and not later appearing in the comic.  This list only features strips in the weekly comic and does not list Strips which only appeared once.  It also includes information about the Comic Idol winners, from 1995 to 2010. Li'l Abner was a satirical American comic strip that appeared in many newspapers in the United States, Canada and Europe, featuring a fictional clan of hillbillies in the impoverished mountain village of Dogpatch, USA.  Written and drawn by Al Capp (1909–1979), the strip ran for 43 years, from August 13, 1934 through November 13, 1977.  It was distributed by United Feature Syndicate.  Comic strips typically dealt with northern urban experiences before Capp introduced Li'l Abner, the first strip based in the South.  The comic strip had 60 million readers in over 900 American newspapers and 100 foreign papers in 28 countries.  Author M. Thomas Inge says Capp "had a profound influence on the way the world viewed the American South." Li'l Folks, the first comic strip by "Peanuts" creator Charles M. Schulz, was a weekly panel that appeared mainly in Schulz's hometown paper, the "St. Paul Pioneer Press", from June 22, 1947 to January 22, 1950.  Schulz's first regular cartoon, "Li'l Folks" can almost be regarded as an embryonic version of "Peanuts", containing characters and themes which were to reappear in the later strip: a well-dressed young boy with a fondness for Beethoven, à la Schroeder; a dog with a resemblance to Snoopy; and a boy named Charlie Brown. Peanuts is a syndicated daily and Sunday American comic strip written and illustrated by Charles M. Schulz, which ran from October 2, 1950, to February 13, 2000, continuing in reruns afterward.  The comic strip is the most popular and influential in the history of comic strips, with 17,897 strips published in all, making it "arguably the longest story ever told by one human being".  At its peak, "Peanuts" ran in over 2,600 newspapers, with a readership of 355 million in 75 countries, and was translated into 21 languages.  It helped to cement the four-panel gag strip as the standard in the United States, and together with its merchandise earned Schulz more than $1 billion.  Reprints of the strip are still syndicated and run in almost every U.S. newspaper. Alfred Gerald Caplin (September 28, 1909 – November 5, 1979), better known as Al Capp, was an American cartoonist and humorist best known for the satirical comic strip "Li'l Abner", which he created in 1934 and continued writing and (with help from assistants) drawing until 1977.  He also wrote the comic strips "Abbie an' Slats" (in the years 1937–45) and "Long Sam" (1954).  He won the National Cartoonists Society's Reuben Award in 1947 for Cartoonist of the Year, and their 1979 Elzie Segar Award, posthumously for his "unique and outstanding contribution to the profession of cartooning."  Comic strips dealt with northern urban experiences until the year Capp introduced "Li'l Abner," the first strip based in the South.  Although Capp was from Connecticut, he spent 43 years teaching the world about Dogpatch, reaching an estimated 60 million readers in over 900 American newspapers and 100 foreign papers in 28 countries.  M. Thomas Inge says Capp made a large personal fortune on the strip and "had a profound influence on the way the world viewed the American South."
Answer: 17,897