Lady Bountiful's Anti-Prize Fight Crusade

This Sunday comic strip follows a wealthy woman's campaign against prize fighting, a popular and often brutal public spectacle of the early 1900s. Across six panels, the narrative deploys physical comedy, crowded scenes of supporters and opponents, and expressive character work typical of the era's newspaper comics. The artist uses sequential panels with speech balloons and sight gags to advance the plot—a visual vocabulary already standard in Sunday supplements by 1904. The strip exemplifies how newspaper comics translated theatrical humor and social topics into a new medium that reached mass audiences daily, establishing conventions of panel layout, dialogue integration, and recurring characters that would define the comic strip and later the comic book form.