mental lapses necessitate frequent visits to an insane asylum, complete with straitjacket and rubber room—from whence his most demented, diabolical plots would emerge (much to the delight of his rabid fans). The early strips referred to grotesque Dick Tracy-inspired public enemies with absurdly satirical names like "Banana Face," "Spinach Face" and "Hamburger Face." One villain, "Carrot Top," could not be tracked by bloodhounds, as he had no blood. His head was a genuine carrot. But Fosdick tracks him to his doom—with a rabbit. Over the years, other nemeses included:Bomb Face - Criminal gang leader with a cannonball bomb for a head (see excerpt), who tries to kill Fosdick by igniting his own fuse. Fosdick turns the tables on him—literally, causing the detonating Bomb Face to incinerate his own gang. (The original artwork for this Li'l Abner Sunday sequence, dated 30 May 1943, is currently housed at the Library of Congress in the Caroline and Erwin Swann Collection.) Stone Face - A supposedly fictional comic strip character who unexpectedly turns out to be "real," threatening and tormenting Fosdick cartoonist Lester Gooch (1943). His solid granite head proves to be no match for Li'l Abner's, however.Rattop - A particularly heinous villain, with a mouse head (1944)."The Hat" - A headless serial killer who wears a wide-brimmed zoot suit fedora atop his shoulders, concealing his empty collar (1945). He could not be executed, since his homicidal crimes are all hanging offenses. He's finally undone when Fosdick tricks him into crossing state lines—where the method of execution is by electric chair.Anyface - A diabolical master of disguise (1947)—albeit with slovenly personal grooming habits. (He ended up disguising himself as Fearless Fosdick--and both the real thing and the copy confront one another in a steam bath; this episode ends in an unresolved cliffhanger when a feverish Lester Gooch suddenly becomes "sane," and abandons the storyline—much to Abner's frustration. Capp invited readers to submit their own solutions in a nationwide, promotional mail-in contest.) Anyface was later utilized as an all-purpose villain in a series of print ads featuring Fosdick, produced for Wildroot Cream-Oil hair tonic, (see Licensing and promotion). In July 1966 Anyface disguised himself as Daisy Mae in order to get a manuscript of his life from Li'l Abner; although he failed to fool Li'l Abner (Li'l Abner realized who was the real Daisy Mae when she became jealous). Anyface grabbed the manuscript and, jumping