Blondie #148

This Giant Harvey Size issue of Chic Young's Blondie serves up a double dose of domestic chaos, with Blondie herself distracted on the telephone while an iron scorches the laundry on the ironing board — heat waves and all — and a hapless Dagwood-like figure getting bombarded by a runaway steam iron in the bathtub below. The cover portraits along the left side cheerfully introduce the ensemble cast: Blondie, Dagwood, Mr. Dithers, the Katzenjammer Kids, and The Little King, promising a packed 25-cent Giant edition of laughs. Chic Young's warm, expressive cartooning is on full display here, capturing the lovable everyday mayhem that made this strip a household staple throughout 1961.