(310) "Dumb Dora" Dailies by Chic Young from 1929 Size: 3.5 x 12 & 6 x 6 inches For Sale

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(310) "Dumb Dora" Dailies by Chic Young from 1929 Size: 3.5 x 12 & 6 x 6 inches:
$100.00

This is a run of 310(Near Complete Year!)"Dumb Dora"Dailiesby Chic Young. Wonderful Artwork and Great Story Telling!These werecut from the original newspapers of 1929. Size: 3.5 x 12 & 6 x 6 inches.Paper: Excellent! ! Pulled from bound volumes!(Please Check Scans)Free Postage USA! $25.00 International Flat Rate. I combine postage on multiple pages. Check out my other sales for more great vintageComic strips and Paper Dolls.Thanks for Looking!

Dumb Dora

Author(s) Chic Young (1924–1930)

Paul Fung (1930–1932)

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 1925s 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 1925s, the term "dumb Dora" referred to any young woman who was scatter-brained or stupid. Flappers of the 1925s 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).

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