From the exhibition
Flying to Fame: The Man Hunt
· September 21, 1928

This Sunday page follows an aerial search for the villainous Le Noiret and his band across jungle terrain. The strip employs the visual conventions that defined 1920s adventure comics: multiple panels arranged in a grid, speech balloons advancing narrative exposition, and recurring characters in episodic pursuit. The pilot protagonist coordinates with ground forces while scanning for smoke signals—a plot device that showcases both action and dialogue-driven storytelling. Ernest Hendericks's line work emphasizes machinery and landscape detail typical of the period, when newspaper comic pages served as the primary laboratory for sequential art before the comic book format emerged from reprinted strips.
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