https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045211/1918-11-26/ed-1/seq-17/#date1=1918&sort=date&date2=1918&words=INFLUENZA&language=&sequence=0&lccn=&index=3&state=&rows=20&ortext=&proxtext=influenza&year=&phrasetext=&andtext=&proxValue=&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1215

Spanish flu makes into t he comic strips. “Cap” Stubbs can’t play soldier, because all his pals are afraid of the influenza.

Source: “‘Cap’ Stubbs,” Evening Public Ledger, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 26, 1918. Page 17, Column 1.