Militant Mary

A single-panel comic featuring a woman in glasses and hat, fists clenched, declaring her knowledge of male deception. The strip exemplifies the early newspaper comic's direct address to readers through speech balloons and simple line drawing. *Militant Mary* belongs to the Sunday supplement era when comic strips evolved from gag cartoons into serialized character studies, establishing visual conventions—expressive physiognomy, dialogue-driven humor, recurring personas—that would define the medium. The title character represents a common type: the sharp-tongued female protagonist who punctures pretense through blunt observation, a stock figure in dailies and weeklies of the 1910s.