Blondie

Few characters carry the distinction of sharing ink with both a comic-strip crime legend and a beloved domestic icon, yet this Blondie — debuting in Harvey's Dick Tracy #31 in 1950 — does exactly that, keeping company with Dick Tracy himself and the famous Dagwood across a handful of Golden Age pages. With appearances spanning Dick Tracy and Blondie Comics Monthly, she's a small but genuine piece of early 1950s Harvey Comics history, a snapshot of an era when the funny pages and comic books traded freely in beloved newspaper-strip characters. Chester Gould's world was a rich one, and even a three-appearance catalog presence is a collectible thread in that Golden Age tapestry worth tugging on.