From the exhibition
Mr. Broad of Wall Street—A Tipless Tip
· December 9, 1921

This daily strip follows Mr. Broad through a sequence of financial misadventures. The protagonist attempts to secure stock tips, moves between phone calls and office visits, and concludes with a comedic reversal—ejected from a broker's office after his advice proves worthless. The strip uses sequential panels with speech balloons to track narrative progression, a fundamental grammar inherited from earlier Sunday pages. The sharp linework and character movement demonstrate the visual efficiency required of newspaper comics appearing alongside financial news and market reporting, treating Wall Street's confidence men and small investors as stock characters in an urban comedy.
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