Harold Teen

A Sunday strip installment from *Harold Teen*, the popular newspaper comic following the misadventures of a young man and his friends. Here, Harold attempts a daring automotive stunt, calling out a warning about a malfunctioning taillight. The strip employs the visual conventions now standard to comics: sequential panels advancing the action, speech balloons for dialogue, and exaggerated expressions and poses for comedic effect. Running in hundreds of newspapers during the 1920s-30s, *Harold Teen* exemplified the daily and Sunday comic strips that formed the immediate predecessors to the comic book. These strips developed the panel-based grammar and recurring characters that would define the medium, reaching millions of readers and establishing comics as mass entertainment.