Outbursts of Everett True

A two-panel gag strip in which Everett True, the protagonist, addresses an elderly man at a baseball game. In the first panel, True offers to hold the man's glasses while he watches the game. The second panel reveals True's trick: he has placed the glasses on the forehead of a bald spectator seated directly in front of them, blocking the old man's view entirely. The strip exemplifies early newspaper comic humor—visual wordplay, recurring character mischief, and the sequential narrative structure that would define the medium. Everett True strips pioneered the daily newspaper comic as a vehicle for situational comedy and character-driven pranks, establishing conventions later absorbed into comic books.