Hairbreadth Harry by C.W. Kahles

A Sunday page from Hairbreadth Harry, an adventure strip built on slapstick and mystery. Here, the protagonist's dog Sniffo is found dead at a public exhibition, triggering a murder investigation among the assembled guests. Kahles employs the full visual vocabulary of 1920s newspaper comics: multi-panel layouts, speech balloons, sequential action across frames, and recurring characters. The strip's humor depends on physical gags—characters reacting with exaggerated shock—and plot twists resolved through dialogue. Published across the Sunday comics pages and dailies that shaped the medium, Hairbreadth Harry demonstrates how newspaper strips established the panel-based narrative grammar later absorbed into comic books.