He was the inflexible citizen of the prehistoric kingdom of Moo who rode the dinosaur, carried a stone war hammer, dressed around nothing however the pair of fur shorts, & apparently would like fight dinosaurs in the jungle than treat by having his fellow countrymen in Moo's capital (& lone) cave-town.

Inside spite one exotic settings, a stories were mostly satires of American suburban life, directed to an adult public. A 1st stories centered in his dealings by having his fellow cavemen -- his friend Foozy & his girlfriend Ooola, Moo's King Guz & Queen Oompah, a King's Gr& Wizer, & assorted citizens -- and occasional brush using a rival kingdom of Lem. (A list Moo & Lem come probably information to the legendary misplaced continents of Mu and Lemuria.)

Within late stories he was taken to the 20th century by a time machine, built by Dr. Elbert Wonmug. (His title was the parody of Albert Einstein's,that is : Ein Stein means One Mug around german) Modern characters involved a another time villain, another time hero G. Oscar Boom. Alley Oop was hardly upset per move, & became the rather "test pilot" for Dr. Wonmug (world health organization wore the like suspicious resemblance to the Grand Wizer). When such he was forward expeditions to various periods & wharehouses inside history, like Ancient Egypt, Arthurian England and the American Old West.

A syndicated cartoon strip sharing his name was 1st published in December Five, 1932. A strip was taken above, starting inside 1967, by Hamlin's assistant Dave Graue, then within 1991 by Jack Bender, who was late joined by his married woman Carol Bender.

Within 1995, a strip was one of Twenty involved in the Comic Strip Classics series of commemorative postage stamps.

Around 1960 he was too immortalized inside the one-hit-wonder song, "Alley Oop" by the The Hollywood Argyles:

Based on data from this song "he [has] got a big ugly club"; arguably this describes non his war-hammer, sustaining its stone head attached to the shaft, however the further average cartoon cave man's rough conelike wood club, such as is carried by his have king.

His title comes from either the slang sentence to tell person to climb, on to what he has to run to ride his dinosaur. It at long last comes from either "allez oup," a lingua franca phrase of French mixed either with English or even another Germanic language.

the strip was ab initio a daily strip which began December 5, 1932 and ran until January 3, 1933. So, prefer a late Pogo, it had another beginning, reworking the early lessin for a big audience, on August 7, 1933. The Sunday full page began September 9, 1934. A Sunday besides appeared within half page, tabloid, and half tab formats, which were smaller and/or dropped panels. In the period of Globe War II, the good web page vanished, due to the cause to conserve paper, & a third of a page was added. A previous every day by creator V. T. Hamlin was December 31 1972, his last Sunday was April 1 1973. A strip however appears, two Sunday & day-to-day, written by Carole Bender & drawn by Jack Bender.

Several Alley Oop day-after-day strips, & two or three Sundays, keep close at hand been reprinted by Dragon Lady Press, Comics Revue, Kitchen Sink, Manuscript Press, and SPEC Books.