Bobby Make-Believe

A Sunday page from *Bobby Make-Believe*, featuring a young protagonist who imagines himself in adventure scenarios. Here, Bobby daydreams of excavating buried treasure, complete with pitched action and comic peril. The strip employs sequential panels with speech balloons to convey both realistic setup and fantastical payoff—a structural formula that became standard in newspaper comics. The narrative flow depends on visual storytelling: facial expressions, body language, and panel-to-panel transitions carry meaning as fully as dialogue. Such strips appeared in Sunday editions alongside advertising and news, reaching millions of readers and establishing the visual conventions that would define American comic books.