Buster Brown and His Resolutions

R. F. Outcault, the pioneering cartoonist behind The Yellow Kid, introduced Buster Brown in this single 1903 comic from Frederick A. Stokes. The issue presents the mischievous boy and his bulldog Tige as they navigate a series of New Year's resolutions, blending Outcault's signature humor with early 20th-century moralizing. Though a standalone publication, it stands as an early artifact of Outcault's most famous strip, which would soon become a merchandising phenomenon.