Militant Mary

This single-panel comic features a determined young woman in glasses and long hair, fists raised in confrontational stance. The caption declares that though 'the world's a rocky place for girls' and they 'do the best we CAN,' if women aren't treated as equals, 'WE'VE GOT TO PUT UP WITH A MAN!' The strip exemplifies the post-suffrage humor of the early 1920s, when newspapers carried daily and Sunday comic strips that established the visual vocabulary—speech balloons, expressive character drawing, and punchy text—that would define the comic book medium. *Militant Mary* captures both the period's modest feminism and the growing presence of female characters driving newspaper comics during this pivotal era.