File:Mailssmith.jpg

Sidney Smith surrounded by letters received in 1926 after he killed The Gumps' Mary Gold, the first character to die in a continuity comic strip.

Source: Chicago Tribune Web source: http://chnm.gmu.edu/aq/comics/gumpgld.html

fair use in Sidney Smith (artist)
Promotional photograph of unreproducible event of historical significance. The image is used in the transformative context of an informative article about the subject, and that article discusses this event and its significance for the subject. The image has no independent commercial value that can compete with the original comic strip. --AnonEMouse (squeak) 17:01, 22 May 2007 (UTC)