Bobby Make-Believe

A Sunday newspaper comic strip following young Bobby's imaginative midnight adventures. Each panel depicts his escalating fantasies: a leopard appears at the door, then wolves, robbers, and finally a lion—each threat met with increasingly elaborate defenses. The final reveal shows only the family cat, collapsing Bobby's elaborate fear into comedy. The strip demonstrates the visual conventions that defined early comics: sequential panels advancing narrative time, speech balloons for dialogue, and recurring child protagonist. The format typified Sunday supplement humor pages that preceded the bound comic book, establishing the grammar of panel progression and visual gags that would define the medium.