Smitty

This Sunday strip follows Smitty, an office boy caught between his boss's demands and street-level trouble. The narrative unfolds across five panels: a superior announces a boxing instructor is arriving, Smitty meets the tough-talking Sailor McCoy, and the lesson quickly turns physical when Smitty ends up on the ground. The strip exemplifies the visual conventions newspaper comics had established by the 1930s—sequential panels, speech balloons clarifying action, and recurring characters in ongoing situations. *Smitty* ran as both daily and Sunday installments, part of the newspaper comic ecosystem that directly preceded and shaped the comic book medium itself.