Buster Brown — Omaha Daily Bee, October 19, 1913

This Sunday theater page from the *Omaha Daily Bee* preserves the cultural ecosystem in which American newspaper comics flourished. By 1913, the Sunday supplement had become the proving ground for recurring characters, sequential panels, and speech balloons — the visual grammar R. F. Outcault codified with *Buster Brown* after 1902. Outcault's mischievous boy in the sailor suit and his dog Tige had already migrated from page to merchandise to stage, demonstrating how comic-strip characters could anchor entire commercial franchises. The page here, surrounded by theatrical advertising and portrait cuts of vaudeville performers, reminds us that comics and popular entertainment were inseparable industries — the weekly strip a recurring appointment audiences kept the way they bought theater tickets.