Which Hand Wins?

This comic strip puzzle poses a visual riddle to readers: which hand will win in a game of chance? The strip employs sequential panels and hand-drawn illustration typical of newspaper comics of the era. One panel shows a single hand holding what appears to be a card or object; the facing panel reveals multiple hands and cards in play. The format reflects the puzzle strips and visual gags that populated Sunday newspaper pages, where readers engaged directly with the narrative. Such strips helped establish the visual vocabulary of comics—panel divisions, variation in frame size, and integration of text with image—that would become fundamental to the medium's development from newspapers into standalone comic books.