Comic Books
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Grepke, Donald, 1932-
label: Collection Creator
content: Grepke, Carolyn, 1937-1995
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content: The Carolyn and Donald Grepke Paper Doll Collection
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content: The Carolyn and Donald Grepke Paper Doll Collection / Series 5: Mass Media
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1940-1995
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0752, Subseries 5.2
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Comprise of materials created from characters who generally appeared in comic books or comic strips. Some of the earliest characters include Blondie (1930), Dick Tracy (1931), L'il Abner and Daisy Mae (1934), Little Lulu (1935), Nancy (1938), and Superman (1938). Most of the paper dolls are created from characters who were created in the 1940s including Brenda Starr (1940), Archie, Betty, and Veronica (1942), Patsy Walker (1944), Katy Keene (1945), Millie the Model (1945), Hedy DeVine (1947), and Polly Pigtails (1946).
A smaller number of paper dolls are of characters created later in the century such as Sugar and Spike (1956), Josie and the Pussycats (1963), Doonesbury (1970), and Vicki Valentine (1985). Materials are arranged in alphabetical order.