Fuller Bunk

A fortune teller's prediction sets up the strip's domestic comedy. The first panel establishes the setup in a seance setting; subsequent panels show the husband's increasingly desperate attempt to prevent his wife from learning he will "get" a second wife—the visual gag turning on his panicked misinterpretation of the fortune. The strip employs the standardized panel grid, speech balloons, and sight gags inherited from newspaper comic traditions. By 1919, such Sunday strips were the dominant form of sequential narrative art in American papers, establishing visual conventions—facial expression, body language, timing through panel sequence—that would define comic books once reprinted in pulp format.