Horrible! The Bunco Steerers Got to Mr. Titus Wad!!

A five-panel comic strip following the misadventures of Mr. Titus Wad, who has been swindled by con artists. The narrative unfolds left to right as Cicero explains how Wad lost two thousand dollars in a scheme, then reveals Wad's predicament at a hotel. The strip employs sequential panel composition and dialogue balloons—hallmarks of early newspaper comics that evolved into the modern comic book format. The ink-drawn figures and exaggerated expressions typify the slapstick humor of 1910s Sunday pages, where recurring characters and serialized gags entertained newspaper readers and established the visual storytelling conventions that would define American comics.