Lance Lawson was a mystery-themed newspaper comic drawn by Norman Hamilton and written by Harry Cherney, which ran in the Minneapolis Star and Tribune in the late 1940’s. In each installment, the hard-boiled detective Lance Lawson was faced with a new mystery, which he inevitably managed to solve within four panels by noticing the one detail that didn’t fit in the suspect’s story (with the reader challenged to figure out the answer himself before looking it up).
Thanks to Eddie Drueding
Lance Lawson (1947)
Lance Lawson (1948)
Newspaper Comic Strips 
