Buster Brown — Omaha Daily Bee, September 26, 1909

This Sunday page from the *Omaha Daily Bee* does not reproduce a Buster Brown comic strip proper — the visible broadsheet carries display advertising, a feature article on Ak-Sar-Ben parade floats headlined *"All the World's a Stage,"* a themed-nights table, and trade announcements for Mason & Hamlin pianos and the North-Western Line. No sequential panels, speech balloons, or strip characters are legible here. Richard Outcault had introduced Buster Brown in the *New York Herald* in 1902, establishing the mischievous boy, his dog Tige, and the apology-resolves panel structure that became a template for the Sunday page format — the direct ancestor of the collected comic book.