Old Titus Wad Is Sure Some Frenzied Financier!

A five-panel Sunday strip by Gale featuring the character Old Titus Wad. The narrative follows a fast-talking financier pitching an investment scheme to a skeptical listener, who gradually warms to the proposition before being literally struck by the punchline. The strip employs dense dialogue balloons and sequential panel arrangement typical of early newspaper comics. Recurring characters and sight gags were standard humor devices in the Sunday pages, which by 1913 had become the primary laboratory for developing comic strip conventions—panel borders, word balloons, and visual pacing—that would define the emerging medium of comic books.