The Adventures of Patsy—It's a Date!

A four-panel Sunday comic strip featuring Patsy and supporting characters in a romantic scenario. General Moresby apologizes for lacking a suitable young soldier for Patsy's luncheon party; Patsy expresses dismay at the shortage; the General offers himself as a substitute date; Patsy accepts enthusiastically, requesting he bring additional officers and captains. The strip employs the formal visual conventions of newspaper comics: distinct rectangular panels, speech balloons, expressive ink line work, and recurring characters. This page represents the Sunday supplement format that dominated American newspapers and directly preceded the emergence of comic books as a distinct medium in the late 1930s and 1940s.