Minerva Gump

A genuine piece of Golden Age history, Minerva Gump stepped onto the Dell Comics stage in 1944's Popular Comics #104, brought to life by the talented duo of Zack Mosley and Boody Rogers. She shares her pages with a lively cast that includes Andrew Gump, Smokey Stover, and Casper Hawkins — the kind of colorful mid-century company that made Dell's anthology titles such a joy to collect. With only a handful of catalog appearances across 1944–1945, she's a rare, fleeting figure from comics' earliest era, the sort of discovery that makes digging through Golden Age back issues genuinely rewarding.