Mr. Broad of Wall Street—Then, Why Cry?

A four-panel comic strip featuring Mr. Broad, a well-dressed financier, and a young child. The strip employs the visual conventions established by newspaper comics: sequential panels with speech balloons, expressive ink line work, and a narrative arc built from domestic conflict to resolution. Mr. Broad attempts to comfort the crying child by asking the source of distress, eventually discovering a lost doll. The final panel delivers the joke: when informed the doll is in the sewers, Mr. Broad offers practical assistance. Strips like this populated the Sunday and daily newspaper pages of the early twentieth century, establishing the visual grammar and character-driven humor that would define the emerging comic book medium.