Meet the Misses!

Jack Wilhelm's *Meet the Misses!* exemplifies the Sunday newspaper comic strip format that shaped modern comics. The page combines multiple narrative threads—a street encounter between fashionable women, a film production scene, and a hunting expedition—linked by recurring characters and unified visual style. Speech balloons carry rapid-fire dialogue and comic business across panel sequences. Wilhelm employs crosshatching and dynamic line work typical of 1920s newspaper illustration. These weekly pages, distributed nationwide, established the visual grammar later adopted by comic books: sequential panels, character consistency, integrated text and image, and episodic storytelling that rewarded reader loyalty.