Wich2 wrote:
Yeah, she was originally the star - a spoiled rich girl. Then she met that Bumstead bum, and it all changed!

Blondie Boopadoop was actually a carefree flapper; Dagwood was the heir to the Bumstead Locomotive fortune (disowned by his family when he married the disreputable Blonde, he had to start working at J. C. Dither's).

As I recall it was the marriage that changed the focus of the strip; after the marriage Blondie settled down as housewife foil to Dagwood and his antics.