The Hard Luck of Superstitious Muggs

This Sunday newspaper comic strip follows a character named Muggs through a series of escalating misfortunes triggered by superstitious beliefs. The narrative unfolds across nine panels in a grid layout, employing speech balloons and sequential panel progression—visual conventions that were becoming standard in early newspaper comics. Each episode presents a cause-and-effect chain: Muggs avoids walking under a ladder, only to be struck by a street car; he attempts to retrieve a coin from the tracks and is hit again; a black cat crossing his path results in a fall. The strip's humor derives from the irony that Muggs's efforts to avoid bad luck through superstitious avoidance systematically ensure the very disasters he fears. The artwork uses cross-hatching and ink line work typical of newspaper reproduction standards of the period.