Happy Hooligan — Omaha Daily Bee, February 16, 1913

Two strips share this Sunday page. The upper tier, *Happy Hooligan's Heart Is All Right! But His Luck Is Tough!*, follows Frederick Burr Opper's signature tramp—tin-can hat, perpetual good intentions, perpetual disaster—as his romantic errand ends in a street collision, a beating, and arrest by a squad of thick-necked cops. The lower strip, *Visitors for Mr. Batch!*, stages a dumbwaiter escape gag in six compact panels. Both run in the broad ink-line style Opper established at Hearst from 1900 onward: exaggerated silhouettes, speech balloons driving the action, sequential panels as narrative engine. *Hooligan* was among the first strips to give a recurring underdog hero a fixed visual identity—the template every comic book protagonist would inherit.