Smitty at the Ball Game

A single 1929 issue from Cupples & Leon, Smitty at the Ball Game adapts the newspaper strip antics of Walter Berndt's long-running Smitty into a baseball-themed comic book. This one-shot captures the series' Depression-era charm, following the mischievous title character and his pals through a lighthearted day at the ballpark. While brief, it stands as an early example of a popular daily strip being repackaged for the fledgling comic book format.