Mr. Titus Wad Is So Tight That He Doesn't Even Like to Spend His Time

A Sunday strip by Gale built on a running gag: the miserly Mr. Titus Wad refuses to waste even leisure time with his wife. When she invites him to cider, he counters with cheap alternatives and time-saving schemes, culminating in his philosophy that "time is money." The strip demonstrates the formal vocabulary of early newspaper comics—sequential panels, speech balloons, recurring character types—that became standard in comic strips and would later define the comic book form. Wad's stinginess was a reliable comedic type in this era.