Buster Brown — The Sun (New York), March 16, 1913

This Sunday page from *The Sun* (New York) preserves three distinct comic features sharing a single broadsheet. The upper register runs Easter Egg Dollies by Martha C. Cheesman — a verse-and-illustration feature showing Dutch dolls, Chinamen figures, and lady dollies rendered in tight pen crosshatch, each quatrain matched to a doll portrait. Below it sits Small Boys of '61 by Dan Beard, a narrative strip recalling Civil War-era boyhood in sequential vignettes. The page demonstrates the Sunday supplement format that directly generated the comic book: standardized panel grids, integrated verse-caption hybrids, and recurring illustrated characters — the structural vocabulary Outcault, Dirks, and their contemporaries had codified in the preceding decade and a half.