The Teasers—The Kids Set a Trap for Bobby

This six-panel strip follows children building and executing a practical joke on their friend Bobby. The narrative unfolds through sequential panels with speech balloons, showing the kids constructing a box trap, discussing their scheme, and finally springing it—complete with a jack-in-the-box surprise. The strip exemplifies early newspaper comic conventions: recurring child characters, slapstick humor, and visual storytelling that propels readers through a complete gag. The bold inking and expressive cartooning style were standard for Sunday supplements of the period, when comic strips served as major draws for newspaper circulation. Such strips formed the visual vocabulary that would define twentieth-century comics.