7x21.25” thin art board has 6x19.5” India ink image area for Dec. 20 w/Mary and boyfriend Pete in snow covered city park in all three panels. Storyline has Mary wanting more time than a week w/Pete. Boldly signed by creator “Leonard Starr” in ink in panel one next to Chicago Tribune copyright strip. Applied zipatone dot pattern shading has tanned in panels one and three, first panel has vertical strip of yellowed cellophane tape, extreme blank margin edges are tanned from previous framing. Fine overall. Well drawn early example for the soap opera strip which began only ten months earlier.