others. Fearless Fosdick Main article: Fearless Fosdick Li'l Abner also featured a comic strip-within-the-strip: Fearless Fosdick was a parody of Chester Gould 's plainclothes detective, Dick Tracy . It first appeared in 1942, and proved so popular that it ran intermittently in Li'l Abner over the next 35 years. Gould was also