Product Overview
The story begins with Blondie and Dagwood on their honeymoon and features one hilarious gag after another. But all is not fun and games when the newlyweds arrive home. Dagwoods parents have disinherited him and the optimistic bumbler must go to work.
In the first three years of the strip, Chic Young experimented with different themes and approaches, but its the years reprinted in this volume that he establishes the elements that would make Blondie the most popular comic strip in the world. All of the iconic elements and many of the regular characters in the strip are introduced in these pages: Dagwoods boss Mr. Dithers, his neighbor Herb, the dog Daisyand in 1934, the first of the Bumstead children, Baby Dumpling (who is later given the name Alexander).
For millions of readers whove loved the Bumsteads over the years, this essential collection tells the complete tale of the couples early married bliss. Produced with the cooperation of the Chic Young family, the book includes an informative and entertaining introduction by Brian Walker that places Blondie in its historical context.
This is the very beginning of Blondie and Dagwoods life as we now know it.
