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Dumb Dora Sunday Page by Chic Young from 5/22/1926 Large Full Size Page !
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This is an _DUMB DORA__ _SUNDAY PAGE BY _CHIC YOUNG (PRE-BLONDIE)_. VERY FUNNY! GREAT EARLY STYLE ARTWORK!! This was cut from the original newspaper Sunday/Saturday comics sections of 1926. SIZE: 15 X 22 INCHES (L ... Read More
This is an _DUMB DORA__ _SUNDAY PAGE BY _CHIC YOUNG (PRE-BLONDIE)_. VERY FUNNY! GREAT EARLY STYLE ARTWORK!! This was cut from the original newspaper Sunday/Saturday comics sections of 1926. SIZE: 15 X 22 INCHES (LARGE FULL PAGE) PAPER: SOME LIGHT TANNING/WEAR, OTHERWISE: EXCELLENT! BRIGHT COLORS! PULLED FROM LOOSE SECTIONS! (PLEASE CHECK SCANS) Please include $5.00 Total postage on any size order (USA) $20.00 International FLAT RATE. I combine postage on multiple pages. Check out my other auctions for more great vintage Comic strips and Paper Dolls. THANKS FOR LOOKING!
Dumb Dora
Author(s) Chic Young (1924â1930)
Paul Fung (1930â1932)
Bil Dwyer (1932-1936)
Current status/schedule Concluded daily strip
Launch date June 25, 1924
End date January 1936
Syndicate(s) Newspaper Feature Service (King Features Syndicate)
Genre(s) Humor
Dumb Dora was a comic strip published from 1924 to 1936 distributed by King Features Syndicate. The term "dumb Dora" was a 1920s American slang term for a foolish woman; the strip helped popularize the term.
Publication History
Dumb Dora was initially drawn by Chic Young (of later Blondie fame). After Young left the strip to create Blondie, Paul Fung took over Dumb Dora. Fung also added a topper strip to Dumb Dora, When Mother was a Girl. Bil Dwyer took over the strip in 1932, until Dumb Dora was discontinued in January 1936.
Chic Young: June 25, 1924 - April 27, 1930
Paul Fung: April 30, 1930 - Sept 3, 1932
Bil Dwyer: Sept 5, 1932 - January 1936
Story and Characters
Although Young's Dora was uneducated, she was also capable of persuading people around her to let her get her own way. This frequently resulted in the strip ending with a character saying of Dora "She ain't so dumb!"
in Popular Culture
According to slang glossaries of the early 1920s, the term "dumb Dora" referred to any young woman who was scatter-brained or stupid. Flappers of the 1920s were also sometimes likened to dumb Doras.
The epithet "Dumb Dora" became identified with the vaudeville act of George Burns and his wife, Gracie Allen, as did a similar slang expression for a female who was not very bright, but in a charming way: "dizzy dame." In the vaudeville era, as well as during the period from the Golden Age of Radio through the first several decades of television, female comedians were often expected to play a "Dumb Dora" or "Dizzy Dame" role, even if in real life, they were very intelligent. A good example of this dichotomy was Lucille Ball.
Although Dumb Dora comic strip was discontinued in 1935, the TV game show Match Game occasionally alludes to the strip, asking those watching in the studio to shout in unison, "How dumb is she?" (borrowing from a routine from The Tonight Show).
*please note: collecting and selling comics has been my hobby for over 30 years. Due to the hours of my job i can usually only mail packages out on saturdays. I send out first class or priority mail which takes 2 - 7 days or more to arrive in the usa and air mail international which takes 5 - 30 days or more depending on where you live in the world. I do not "sell" postage or packaging and charge less than the actual cost of mailing. I package items securely and wrap well. Most pages come in an archival sleeve with acid free backing board at no extra charge. If you are dissatisfied with an item. Let me know and i will do my best to make it right.
Many thanks to all of my 1,000's of past customers around the world.
enjoy your hobby everyone and have fun collecting!
Dumb Dora
Author(s) Chic Young (1924â1930)
Paul Fung (1930â1932)
Bil Dwyer (1932-1936)
Current status/schedule Concluded daily strip
Launch date June 25, 1924
End date January 1936
Syndicate(s) Newspaper Feature Service (King Features Syndicate)
Genre(s) Humor
Dumb Dora was a comic strip published from 1924 to 1936 distributed by King Features Syndicate. The term "dumb Dora" was a 1920s American slang term for a foolish woman; the strip helped popularize the term.
Publication History
Dumb Dora was initially drawn by Chic Young (of later Blondie fame). After Young left the strip to create Blondie, Paul Fung took over Dumb Dora. Fung also added a topper strip to Dumb Dora, When Mother was a Girl. Bil Dwyer took over the strip in 1932, until Dumb Dora was discontinued in January 1936.
Chic Young: June 25, 1924 - April 27, 1930
Paul Fung: April 30, 1930 - Sept 3, 1932
Bil Dwyer: Sept 5, 1932 - January 1936
Story and Characters
Although Young's Dora was uneducated, she was also capable of persuading people around her to let her get her own way. This frequently resulted in the strip ending with a character saying of Dora "She ain't so dumb!"
in Popular Culture
According to slang glossaries of the early 1920s, the term "dumb Dora" referred to any young woman who was scatter-brained or stupid. Flappers of the 1920s were also sometimes likened to dumb Doras.
The epithet "Dumb Dora" became identified with the vaudeville act of George Burns and his wife, Gracie Allen, as did a similar slang expression for a female who was not very bright, but in a charming way: "dizzy dame." In the vaudeville era, as well as during the period from the Golden Age of Radio through the first several decades of television, female comedians were often expected to play a "Dumb Dora" or "Dizzy Dame" role, even if in real life, they were very intelligent. A good example of this dichotomy was Lucille Ball.
Although Dumb Dora comic strip was discontinued in 1935, the TV game show Match Game occasionally alludes to the strip, asking those watching in the studio to shout in unison, "How dumb is she?" (borrowing from a routine from The Tonight Show).
*please note: collecting and selling comics has been my hobby for over 30 years. Due to the hours of my job i can usually only mail packages out on saturdays. I send out first class or priority mail which takes 2 - 7 days or more to arrive in the usa and air mail international which takes 5 - 30 days or more depending on where you live in the world. I do not "sell" postage or packaging and charge less than the actual cost of mailing. I package items securely and wrap well. Most pages come in an archival sleeve with acid free backing board at no extra charge. If you are dissatisfied with an item. Let me know and i will do my best to make it right.
Many thanks to all of my 1,000's of past customers around the world.
enjoy your hobby everyone and have fun collecting!
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