Dumb Dora

Dumb Dora
1925 sample of the comic strip
Author(s)Chic Young (1924–1930)
Paul Fung (1930–1932)
Bil Dwyer (1932–1936)
Current status/scheduleConcluded daily strip
Launch dateJune 25, 1924
End dateJanuary 1936
Syndicate(s)Newspaper Feature Service (King Features Syndicate)
Genre(s)Humor

Dumb Dora is a comic strip published from 1924 to 1936 distributed by King Features Syndicate.[1] The term "dumb Dora" was a 1920s[2] American slang term for a foolish woman;[3][4] the strip helped popularize the term.

  1. ^ Holtz, Allan (2012). American Newspaper Comics: An Encyclopedic Reference Guide. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press. p. 137. ISBN 9780472117567.
  2. ^ The Washington Herald (January 30, 1922), p. 6.
  3. ^ "Slang of the 1920". local.aaca.org. Archived from the original on 18 June 2010. Retrieved 23 June 2017.
  4. ^ Beard, Robert. "A Historical Dictionary of American Slang - alphaDictionary.com". www.alphadictionary.com. Retrieved 23 June 2017.