Baron Bean. "Grimes approaches and I must dissemble"

Four-frame comic strip. Baron fears that Grimes will guess that he is a secret service man, and attempts to leave when he sees him approaching. When Grimes asks him to tell him a secret, the Baron fears he knows about his position. Then when Grimes asks if one should keep the fact that he is a secret service man a secret from friends and family, the Baron feels he must "wreck" him. Flat on his face, with black eyes, Grimes is still confused as to whether he should tell people that he is a secret service man.

Signed, lower right, fourth frame: Herriman.
Inscribed in black ink upper margin and in red pencil lower right: There are two or three secrets in this picture.
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Bequest and gift; Caroline and Erwin Swann; 1974; (DLC/PP-1974:232.1577)
Exhibited: "The Art of the Comic Strip," at the University of Maryland,1971; at the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, 1972-1974.
Exhibited: "George Herriman" at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain, October 2017 - February 2018.