Buster Brown — Gipsy Camp

Nine panels follow Buster, his dog Tige, and a credulous uncle into a gypsy fortune-teller's camp. The uncle swoons at a prophecy of a million dollars; Buster and Tige pocket found money while the uncle begs a penny; the payoff reveals the windfall is a gold brick. Outcault closes, as always, with Buster's 'Resolved' moral—here skewering fortune-tellers as con artists and their customers as 'easy marks.' The strip runs in bold ink-wash line with generous speech balloons and numbered panels, the exact visual grammar Outcault had pioneered with *The Yellow Kid* (1895–98): recurring characters, sequential action, integrated dialogue. Those Sunday pages—printed broadsheet, hand-lettered, mass-distributed—are the direct ancestor of the comic book format that would codify itself by the 1930s.