 The events in this daily story apparently predate the events depicted in the Sunday strip of the previous day.The Sunday strips and daily strips continued to run separately for the first few months of the feature.Big Boy was featured in several different daily continuities and Sunday stories during the early years of the strip, becoming Gould's most frequently recurring villain, and during those early years was a sort of "gray eminence" behind virtually all the criminal activity Tracy was constantly thwarting, even in stories in which he wasn't the featured villain.