Stepbrothers—Major Stuff Doesn't Believe in Ghosts

A twelve-panel narrative strip from the Sunday comics section follows two stepbrothers as Major Stuff encounters what appears to be a ghost in their home. The strip employs the visual conventions established by early newspaper cartoonists: sequential panels with speech balloons, recurring characters, and escalating physical comedy. A ghost in bedsheet costume terrifies the household, leading to slapstick confrontations and skeptical responses. The strip demonstrates the standardized grammar of newspaper comics—panel borders, dialogue placement, and sight gags—that became foundational to the medium. Sunday comics like this one were the primary vehicles for comic narratives in the early twentieth century, predating comic books and establishing the visual language cartoonists would refine throughout the century.