Little Pal: He Sends in a Police Alarm

This six-panel strip follows a small child's escalating prank: placing an alarm clock in a window to simulate a burglar, then frantically triggering a police alarm when the consequences spiral beyond control. The narrative unfolds through sequential panels with speech balloons, establishing cause and effect across frames. The strip exemplifies early newspaper comic grammar—recurring child protagonist, domestic setting, physical comedy, and visual escalation. Published in the Sunday pages when comics were establishing themselves as a distinct medium separate from illustration, strips like this popularized the panel-based storytelling format that would become foundational to comic books and graphic narratives.