From the exhibition
Flying to Fame: The Trap Springs
· July 25, 1928

This daily strip episode shows Jimmy, an aviation enthusiast, meeting a female pilot at an airfield. The narrative unfolds across four panels: Jimmy must fold the pilot's wings for transport, they discuss her hangar operations, she offers him a ride to his hotel via a friend's cab, and he enters the establishment. Henderson uses clear panel divisions, speech balloons, and sequential staging to move the plot forward—techniques fundamental to newspaper comics. *Flying to Fame* exemplified the adventure serials that dominated 1920s comics pages, combining dialogue-driven exposition with action and romance to sustain reader interest across installments.
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