Militant Mary

This Sunday newspaper strip follows Militant Mary, a character defined by her bold personality and appetite for adventure. Here she announces a solo trip to Philadelphia to visit Benjamin Franklin's grave—a destination she pursues with characteristic determination. The strip employs the visual conventions that shaped early comics: bordered panels, hand-lettered dialogue balloons, and expressive figure drawing. Recurring newspaper characters like Mary carried forward the tradition of the *Yellow Kid* and *Katzenjammer Kids*, establishing the serialized protagonist as a staple of American comics. Sunday pages such as this, printed in color in newspaper supplements, were the primary venue for comic art before the emergence of the modern comic book in the 1930s.