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Blondie Daily Strip, 20 Jan 1933, The Eighteenth Day of Dagwood's Hunger Strike

Artists: Alex Raymond (Penciller) , Alex Raymond (Inker) , Chic Young (Writer)

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Blondie Daily Strip, 20 Jan 1933, The Eighteenth Day of Dagwood's Hunger Strike Comic Art

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Title:	Blondie Daily Strip, 20 Jan 1933, The Eighteenth Day of Dagwood's Hunger Strike
Artist:	Alex Raymond (Penciller)
Artist:	Alex Raymond (Inker)
Artist:	Chic Young (Writer)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Comic Strip
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	1,325
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Added to Site:	7/31/2006
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Collecting Blondies, cont.

parents' house. I drove straight to where they lived, parked, walked through the front door, went straight to the nearest telephone, called Bruce, and bought the strips. I didn't even say hi to my mother until the deal was done. Bruce did give me a modest discount for buying both, but I still paid more than any daily of either title (other than the first Blondie) had sold for up until then.

By the mid-1990s, I had managed to buy about half of the 24 hunger strike dailies, and I was somewhat optimistic that I could eventually collect all the strips in the series. My friend, Howard Lowery, called me one day about a Blondie Sundy original which someone had approached him about. When he told me the date of the strip, January 29, 1933, I told him that I wanted it. I knew that it fell within the period of the hunger strike dailies, and, when I saw and image, I knew that it was also the very important transitional piece where Hi Ho, Blondie's boyfriend in the Sunday pages, was phased out and Dagwood, the boyfriend in the dailies from the outset and the soon-to-be groom, made his first appearance in a Sunday page.

I later bought through an auction the original for the prior Sunday (January 22, 1933), which was also within the hunger strike period. So I had 2 of the 4 Sunday pages from January 1933. The earlier original had Hi Ho finding a new girlfriend to replace Blondie, who would marry Dagwood. That storyline is continued in the Sunday for February 12, 1933, which was the marriage and honeymoon Sunday which preceded the dailies featuring the same developments. I have that portion of the February 12 Sunday which continues the subplot regarding the dumping of Hi Ho. I also found and bought the Sunday for March 13, 1933, in which the same "goodbye to Hi Ho" narrative apparently ends with the former boyfriend going on with a life of being dominated by his own new bride.

I had known of a few other hunger strike dailies in the mid-1990s. One of the least interesting in the series had been sold at some earlier time through a Russ Cochran auction. I wondered if it would ever turn up again, and it did!, on eBay. I bought it for a price that was much less than what I had been paying for hunger strike dailies. I sent off the payment, but a few weeks passed without the strip showing up. The seller from eBay and I made contact, and, to my great surprise, I was royally told off for not paying for the item -- and I even had made the seller take the strip out of its frame before mailing it to me. I explained that I had immediately sent payment and that I had no idea why the seller hadn't received it by such a late date. We agreed that the seller would wait a little longer, but I was very concerned that I could lose out on the least expensive hunger strike that I had ever bought and which I had been seeking for several years. The check finally arrived in one of those envelopes the post office uses for damaged mail; and I finally had the daily in hand!

There had been one other bargain hunger strike daily, the one for January 26, 1933, which was included as part of a lot of three dailies and two Sundays at Sotheby's in the 1990s. I and the Ohio collector had jointly bought the group -- I got the dailies and he took the Sundays, and, per piece, the prices were definitely on the low side, even for Blondies. That was the only time I bought comic art along with another collector, and, since it was decided in advance who would get what, it worked out very well for both of us.

But within a few years, my quest for hunger strikes effectively came to an end, after I had collected 13 of the 24 dailies and 2 1/2of the 4 Sundays from the same period, Continued...

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