Life — October 31, 1930 — page 9: what you’re looking at

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# Sinbad "Spook-ooks!" Comic Strip This is a sequential comic strip titled "Sinbad" showing a humorous domestic scene. The narrative follows what appears to be a man in bed who is startled by increasingly visible supernatural or frightening apparitions entering through a doorway. The strip progresses from subtle disturbances (indicated by dotted lines suggesting movement or sounds) to increasingly obvious ghostly or monstrous visitors. The man's reactions escalate from mild concern to apparent terror in the final panel, where he's shown cowering in a chair, seemingly traumatized. The joke appears to play on the contrast between the man's initial skepticism about supernatural occurrences and his eventual panic when confronted with undeniable evidence. The title "Spook-ooks!" is a pun referencing both "spooks" (ghosts) and the sound of fright.