Torchy Togs, Feb. 16,1952

From the Comic Section of the Pittsburgh Courier, a weekly newspaper.

 

Fritzi's Fashions, 1937

Fritzi Ritz was a popular comic strip in the 1930s but  her niece, Nancy, outlasted her in popular culture. I was reading the Nancy and Sluggo comic strip in the 1960s, but didn't know about Fritzi until I started collecting paper dolls in 2003. 

Nancy

Winnie Winkle Fashion Film Cut-Out, 1936

 March 3, 1936

Don't forget to click on the image to see a larger size of this newspaper paper doll.

Brenda Starr's First New Fall Outfits, 1941

 Professor Squell's underground cave? Brenda always had interesting adventures. 

Uncle Bill, the Traveling Salesman

 

This has to be one of the creepiest paper dolls I've ever seen, but maybe that's because of the wink-wink reputation of traveling salesmen, you know, the farmer's daughter and all that. Uncle Bill looks like he has a few stories to share. The tail in the upper left hand corner must belong to an adjacent comic strip. That old coat and sweater betrays another life...or maybe I've been watching too much film noir lately.

Roger Kailerton by Jimmy Murphy

 

"Chubby Little Roger Kailerton," August 4, 1935.

Janet Blair

I'm fascinated with old time stars whose names are unfamiliar to me. Janet Blair had the lead in the 1942 film, "My Sister Eileen." You can read more about her here.

This looks like it was cut out from Ripley's Believe it or Not! My friend Carol Carey copied the doll and created a little wardrobe for her in 2005. I'm always on the lookout for photos or illustrations that were not meant to be paper dolls--but fill the bill nicely.