Oh! Margy!

John Held Jr.'s *Oh! Margy!* follows a young woman juggling romantic appointments across two work shifts. The strip unfolds in five panels, each marked by a clock showing the passage of time—a visual device that became standard in comics for depicting narrative sequence. A redhead summons Margy at 7:30, a second caller reaches her at 10:30, a third checks in at 10:50, and a fourth arrives at 2:30, creating comic chaos through overlapping dates. Held's crisp line work and flapper-era fashion details anchor the humor in contemporary 1920s life. The strip exemplifies how newspaper comics developed recurring characters, recurring gags, and sequential panel logic—the visual grammar that would define the medium for decades.