Mr. Broad of Wall Street

A four-panel Sunday strip following a businessman who stumbles into romantic and financial chaos. The narrative unfolds through sequential panels with speech balloons that advance the plot from street encounter to bedroom confusion. McManus employs exaggerated line work and crowded compositions typical of 1920s newspaper comics, where physical comedy and visual gags drove humor across multiple tiers. The strip exemplifies the daily and Sunday page format that preceded the assembled comic book—serialized stories distributed through newspaper syndicates that trained readers in the visual grammar of panels, word balloons, and recurring characters. Such strips formed the foundation of American comics, establishing conventions that would define the medium for decades.