Samson the Strong Man

This six-panel Sunday comic follows Samson's misadventure at golf, where his extraordinary strength becomes a liability. The strip employs the visual vocabulary now standard to comics: sequential panels advancing action, speech balloons carrying dialogue, and exaggerated body language to convey slapstick humor. The protagonist's attempts to play the genteel sport spiral into destruction—he bends the club, launches the ball into the stratosphere, and ultimately crashes through multiple objects. The artist uses motion lines, impact bursts, and scale shifts to emphasize physical comedy. Newspaper Sunday supplements like this were the proving ground for the medium's visual grammar, establishing conventions that would define comic strips and eventually comic books.