Petey Dink, "The Perils of Peter: Good Night" Part Four

C. A. Voight's *Petey Dink* follows a mischievous boy through serialized adventures across the Sunday newspaper page. This episode depicts Petey's scheme to buy poison and harm a girl he dislikes—a dark comedic premise typical of early comic strips. The strip employs the visual vocabulary that newspapers had pioneered: bordered panels advancing narrative, speech balloons containing dialogue, and recurring characters readers followed week to week. By 1917, such strips had become essential newspaper features, establishing the sequential art form and panel structure that would define comic books when they emerged in the 1930s as collected reprints of newspaper material.