Blondie: The Courtship and Wedding - Complete Daily Comics 1930-1933 (Library of American comics)

Celebrating Blondies 80th anniversary IDWs Library of American Comics presents Blondie like youve never seen her before! This book collects the early strips by Chic Young for the first time ever beginning with the first ones from October 1930. Blondie Boopadoop is a light-headed flapper who meets Dagwood Bumstead the heir to a wealthy high society fortune. Dagwoods parents are aghast and refuse him permission to marry the blonde but their son is in love. He and Blondie hatch a scheme the voracious Dagwood goes on a hunger strike for 28 days 7 hours 8 minutes and 22 seconds. This first volume chronicles the amazing and hilarious courtship and concludes with the spectacular wedding in February 1933. The Library of American Comics is the worlds #1 publisher of classic newspaper comic strips with 14 Eisner Award nominations and three wins for best book. LOAC has become "the gold standard for archival comic strip reprints...The research and articles provide insight and context and most importantly the glorious reproduction of the material has preserved these strips for those who knew them and offers a new gateway to adventure for those discovering them for the first time. - Scoop