Salesman Sam

This daily strip follows Sam's misadventures as a traveling salesman. The sequence shows Sam pitching his wares door-to-door, then attempting to settle a dinner bell dispute with a farmer by swimming the moat—a physical gag that typifies the strip's slapstick humor. The four-panel layout, speech balloons, and recurring character type were standard vocabulary for newspaper comics of the era. *Salesman Sam* ran from 1917 into the 1930s, exemplifying how daily comic strips provided affordable entertainment during the Great Depression while establishing the visual conventions that would define the medium for decades.