Flying to Fame: The Good Ship Dolphin

Ernest Henderson's *Flying to Fame* strips adventure narratives across newspaper pages, employing the sequential panel structure and speech balloons that became standard in comics. Here, crew members aboard an aircraft discuss fuel reserves and flight plans, with the final panel showing a detailed map—a practical visualization technique that grounded fantastical stories in technical specificity. The strip exemplifies how newspaper comics of the late 1920s combined recurring characters, dialogue-driven humor, and visual storytelling across multiple tiers, establishing visual conventions that would anchor the emerging comic book medium.