Superstitious Sam Points Out a Jonah

A six-panel strip following Sam's escalating confrontation with a man wearing a moonstone. Sam accuses him of bad luck—"Don't you know that's a Jonah?"—leading to physical comedy across successive panels: a kicked hat, flying figures, and Sam's final exasperation as his antagonist ends up in a tree. The strip exemplifies early newspaper comic conventions: recurring characters, speech balloons for dialogue and sound effects (*GRRRR!*), and sequential panels advancing a simple gag through cause and effect. By 1906, such strips filled Sunday pages and dailies, establishing the visual grammar later adopted by comic books.