Bobby Make-Believe

A Sunday newspaper strip in which young Bobby imagines himself vanquishing the Butcher Boy through sword combat. The narrative unfolds across nine panels using the visual conventions now standard to comics: speech balloons, sequential action, and recurring characters. Bobby's fantasy escalates from initial challenge through increasingly dramatic swordplay, culminating in victory. The strip exemplifies early-twentieth-century newspaper comics' reliance on child protagonists and imaginative scenarios, while demonstrating the panel-based storytelling format that would become foundational to the medium.