It was the summer of 1930. The country was in the first year of what became known as the Great Depression, and folks were already nostalgic for the carefree party-filled days and nights of the 1920s.

Hold them side by side. The "Blondie" comic strip created by Chic Young for Sept. 8, 1930 is told in four frames. A well-dressed playboy, Dagwood Bumstead, with a wiry body and dark, plastered hair, ...

NEW ORLEANS -- After building his first skyscraper sandwich in a 1936 Blondie comic strip, Dagwood Bumstead -- well, at least the man behind him -- is finally making his daydream of venturing into the ...

PALM HARBOR, Fla. — Near as Dean Young can recall, Dagwood Bumstead started creating colossal sandwiches in his modest cartoon kitchen around 1936. Through the years, the overstuffed works of edible ...