Life, 1923-11-22 · page 13 of 34
Life — November 22, 1923 — page 13: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page presents a sequential comic strip titled "Skippy" depicting a children's street game gone wrong. The narrative follows: 1. A captain enlists "Skippy" to borrow a grocery cart to play a street game 2. Children commandeer the cart for their game 3. The game descends into chaos as children scatter and fight 4. Skippy loses control of the cart entirely 5. Skippy laments the lost cart to his mother, discovering a hole in his pocket The satire targets urban children's mischief and irresponsibility. The humor derives from Skippy's predicament—he loses his mother's grocery cart to neighborhood chaos, then discovers his only explanation (a hole in his pocket) proves his carelessness. It's gentle social commentary on childhood troublemaking in working-class urban neighborhoods, typical of early 20th-century Life magazine's humor.
📄 Transcribed text from this page (OCR, searchable)
Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
Captain: LEND US YA CABBAGE, WILL YA, SKIPPY? WE AIN'T GOT A BALL 'N’ WE WANT TO GO THROUGH SOME SIGNALS. Skippy: Sure. : RIGHT NOW, FELLERS, IT’S GETTIN’ DARK ’N’ Skippy: tLOST THE CABBAGE! I KNEW I SHOULDA MAMA WANTS THE CABBAGE FOR SUPPER, GOT THAT HOLE IN MY POCKET FIXED. Skippy comicbooks.com