CREATOR

Name: Dell Publishing Co. (American comics corporation).
Personal dates: Founded in 1921. Stopped in 1973. Formed partnership with Western Publishing from 1938 to 1962. First editor was Harry Steeger.
Other creations: Too numerous to mention here. Please look under Dell in the Creators section.
Successors: None.
Comments: Dell divided their comic book activities between original stories and stories based on films.

 

 

MAIN STORY
The series premiered in 1948. Stopped in 1949 after 7 issues*.

This newspaper strip title character is a young and unmarried working woman, who has to support her parents and an adopted brother, and we follow her tireless efforts to keep things together. In this comic book series Winkle is dating engineer Bill Wright, who, in the newspaper strip, engaged in mariage with her. He later went missing during World War 2, and Winkle was left behind pregnant. Her toil was not over.

The initial title of the strip series was Winnie Winkle the Breadwinner until 1943.

* The series started as a newspaper comic strip in 1920, and stopped as such in 1996.

 

 

MAIN CHARACTER

Winnie Winkle

 

 

GALLERY
(presenting the front covers from 6 random issues)

#1 - 1948
#2 - 1948
#3 - 1948

#5 - 1949
#6 - 1949
#7 - 1949

 

 

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