Militant Mary

This single-panel comic features a woman in glasses and a long dress, arm raised in emphatic gesture, delivering a pointed remark about the differences between men and women. The composition uses direct address to the reader—a common device in newspaper humor of the 1920s. The figure's exaggerated proportions and simple linework reflect the cartooning style dominant in daily strips of this era, when newspapers carried single and multi-panel gags alongside serialized adventure strips. The title *Militant Mary* suggests a recurring character, part of the newspaper comic's shift toward personality-driven humor that would help establish comics as a distinct medium with familiar protagonists.