14-1/8x22.25" thin artboard with 12.75x20.75" image area. Six panels with gag involving Maud's owner Sy taking out an accident policy and asking the salesman "Does It Include Mule Kicks?" Sy is trying to get Maud to kick him as an insurance inspector watches from behind a building. Sy finally gets kicked but the insurance detective shows up and informs Sy "You Don't Get A Cent!" as Maud laughs nearby. Signed at the bottom of panel six by creator F. Opper. Opper (1857-1937) is also noted for creating Happy Hooligan and Alphonse and Gaston. Maud ran as an independent feature through the first decade of the 20th century and survived as a Sunday top strip over Happy Hooligan into the 1930s. Maud was the comic's first major distinctive animal star (predecessor of Krazy Kat, Mickey Mouse and Snoopy) and was a major contribution to the comic's emergence as a major American art form. Art is partly watercolored by Opper as a guide to the engravers as was a usual practice of Sunday pages of the era. Panel two has a very narrow 6.25" horizontal indentation through the center, scattered light dust soil but overall VF to Exc. appearance. An exceptional and early example of a classic American comic strip. Art was re-printed in the 1989/1997 Richard Marshall book "America's Great Comic Strip Artists." From the collection of noted comics historian Richard Marschall.