Mr. Broad of Wall Street

A four-panel strip following Mr. Broad's domestic mishap. The narrative unfolds through dialogue and visual action: a wife confronts her husband about missing money, he deflects with excuses about business, she suspects their son Jerry, and the final panel reveals the boy napping atop a pile of cash. The strip employs the standard newspaper comic conventions of the era—sequential panels, speech balloons, and a recurring cast—that formed the visual vocabulary inherited by later comic books. M'Manus uses exaggerated body language and facial expressions typical of 1920s newspaper comics to drive both humor and plot across the strip's tight grid.