Great Caesar's Ghost!

A nine-panel Sunday comic strip built on wordplay and physical comedy. A woman in a toga addresses a man at a Roman bath, triggering a series of misunderstandings around the phrase "under the Basil." The humor escalates through repetition and escalating confusion, with the punchline hinging on a homophones—a staple of early comic strip gags. The strip demonstrates the formal language of newspaper comics established by 1914: uniform panel grids, speech balloons, expressive linework, and the fast-paced comedic timing that made Sunday pages and daily strips the visual foundation for the comic book medium that would emerge in the following decades.