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Uncle Wiggily's Adventures

· Sunday, September 20, 1925

Uncle Wiggily's Adventures
A full Sunday page by Lang Campbell, with text by Howard R. Garis, showing Uncle Wiggily and Miss Mouse navigating mishaps: a stuck door, encounters with threatening animals, a mud puddle mishap, and ultimately a picnic. The strip employs the visual conventions of 1920s newspaper comics—rectangular panels with speech balloons, sequential action across rows, and recurring animal characters in domestic and adventure scenarios. *Uncle Wiggily* began as a bedtime-story character in 1910 and became a newspaper strip by the early 1920s, exemplifying how serialized animal comics built loyal readerships across dailies and Sunday pages, establishing the format and character-driven humor that would define American comic strips.

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