Militant Mary

A single-panel comic featuring Mary, a bespectacled woman in a dress with a militant demeanor. She declares her relief that the year is nearly over while admitting her luck has been "very BAD," yet insists she didn't cheat—though she "often" wishes she had. The strip uses simple line drawing and hand-lettered typography typical of early newspaper comics. *Militant Mary* exemplifies the character-driven humor that populated Sunday pages during the medium's formative years, when recurring personalities and domestic comedy dominated strips published in mass-circulation dailies and weeklies.