Samson the Strong Man

This Sunday comic strip follows the exaggerated exploits of Samson, a vaudeville strongman character. The narrative unfolds across six panels with a visual gag: Samson's companion boasts of his strength to skeptics, who then witness him effortlessly lift and manipulate massive logs. The strip employs sequential panel composition, speech balloons, and comic timing—conventions that define early newspaper comics. Published during the medium's formative years, when comic strips in Sunday papers established the visual vocabulary later adopted by comic books: discrete panels, varied perspectives, and recurring character types that carried ongoing storylines and humor across multiple installments.