Minute Movies by Wheelan

Wheelan's *Minute Movies* strips packed serial melodrama into newspaper comics, announcing multi-part film dramas to readers each week. This installment promotes "The Crime of the Yukon," featuring Dick Dare as hero opposite Dearie, Ralph Werner, and other stock characters. The format combines announcement panels with character portraits and cast lists, blending promotion with storytelling. Published in Sunday papers alongside text-heavy comics, these strips relied on sequential panels, speech balloons, and recurring characters—visual conventions that newspapers had formalized by the 1920s, establishing the graphic language that would define comic books.