The Newly Weds: Baby Plays With Mama's Purse

This Sunday newspaper strip follows a young couple and their infant through domestic comedy. The six-panel sequence shows the baby discovering and emptying its mother's purse—finding coins, a dime, a nickel, and dollar bills—while parents react with alarm and amusement. The strip employs the visual language that defined early comics: sequential panels with speech balloons, recurring characters in a domestic setting, and slapstick humor derived from physical action. Published in newspapers nationwide, such strips established the foundation of comic narrative before comic books existed as a medium.