Mr. Broad of Wall Street

This newspaper comic strip follows Mr. Broad, a Wall Street financier, through six sequential panels showing his morning routine and financial preoccupations. The strip employs the visual conventions that defined early comics: rectangular panels arranged left-to-right, speech balloons advancing the narrative, and a recurring protagonist navigating everyday situations with comic timing. The humor derives from Broad's obsession with market movements—he monitors stock tickers, discusses broker fees, and frets over a missing dime, each panel escalating his anxiety. By the 1920s, such strips appeared daily and Sunday in newspapers nationwide, establishing the visual grammar and character-driven storytelling that would become foundational to the comic book medium emerging in the following decade.