ETTA KITT #14 (SEPTEMBER 1949)

Etta Kitt, created by Paul Robinson, was a popular comic strip that ran from December 7. 1925 to November 9, 1974.

It began as a single panel offering teenagers advice on etiquette, manners, and social graces.  Robinson soon saw the strip's potential and created a storyline about a middle class, suburban teenage, her family, and her friends.  Clearly modeled after Carl Ed's Harold Teen strip which appeared six years earlier, Ett and her boyfriend Wingey Wallace engaged in typical teen activities -- soda fountain sessions, rooting at football games, arranging dates, and pulling pranks.  The characters' clothes, problems, music, and activities closely corresponded with real life at the given times.  According to comics historian don Markstein, '"Etta never went beyond the bounds of old-fashioned propriety."  The strip ended two months after Robinson's death.

Only four issues of the One Kittcomic book were published, number 11-14.  

In "A Rich Reward," Etta saves a drowning man caught in the surf.

Etta becomes a fashion model but her jealous boyfriends show up and spoil things when they "Crash the Act."

And can this be?  Etta may be taking the place of another girl who is "Set for the Altar."

Etta's double, Wanda Jellis, shows up and Etta must convince glamour boy Tommy Thomas that he's "Marrying the Right Girl."

In "Love at First Sight," Etta goes ga-ga over handsome visiting author Anthony Neckwell.

And in the final two one-pagers, Etta dilly dallies over answering the phone and wonders how old a girl should be before she gets married.

Enjoy these tales from a much simpler time.

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