Buster Brown's Happy Days

A single issue from Cupples & Leon, Buster Brown's Happy Days (1911) is a slim, early-20th-century comic offering featuring the mischievous, well-dressed boy and his bulldog Tige, characters then at the height of their popularity from the newspaper strip. Published as a standalone, it captures a moment when Buster Brown's licensed adventures were ubiquitous in American popular culture. Though brief, this issue matters as a snapshot of the comic-strip-to-merchandising phenomenon that defined the era's family entertainment.