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Little Jimmy

· February 13, 1923

Little Jimmy
In this Sunday strip, young Jimmy receives a lesson in business and finance from an adult mentor. The first two panels show the teacher explaining commercial principles—investing, trading, and profit—while Jimmy absorbs the concepts amid floating dollar signs and question marks. The final panels depict Jimmy meeting a businessman eager to discuss a deal, establishing a narrative arc across the sequence. Like most newspaper comics of the 1920s, *Little Jimmy* relied on recurring characters and serial storytelling to build reader loyalty. The strip's layout—distinct rectangular panels flowing left to right—exemplifies the visual grammar codified by newspaper cartoonists in the preceding decades. Speech balloons carry dialogue, allowing rapid character interaction and gag delivery across multiple frames.

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