Blondie ; 100 Selected Top–Laughs of America’s Best Loved Comic

Philadelphia: McKay, 1944. First Edition. near fine. 1st edition, the contents extracted from, and only preceded by, newspaper appearances in individual strips from 1938 to 1944.  Fine in a near fine dustjacket. Blondie Bumstead, and her husband Dagwood, were created in 1930 and are alive at 92.  Their comic strip has appeared in 2,000 newspapers, in 47 countries, and in 35 languages, and it still appears daily.  They have starred in 28 films, 2 TV series, 2 TV specials, radio shows from 1939 to 1950, comic books since 1947, they’ve been merchandised hundreds of times, they got their own U. S. postage stamp in 1995, she’s had a dessert named after her (a Blondie is a Brownie made with vanilla instead of cocoa powder) and Blondie was the eponym of the Hall of Fame rock & roll band that was her namesake.  

Ah booksellers.  Pop culture matters.  It is real, and demand for it is real, because it is market driven.