Mr. Wad Was Some Batter Until Titus Rang in an Iron One on Him!

A six-panel sports gag strip by Gale follows Mr. Wad's baseball boasting and swift comeuppance. The protagonist brags about his hitting prowess, then takes a pitched iron ball directly to the head, launching into a final panel of stars and circular motion—visual shorthand for dizziness that became standard comic vocabulary. The strip exemplifies early newspaper comic conventions: recurring character, escalating action, and slapstick violence rendered through exaggerated line work. Published in the Sunday funnies era when strips like these taught readers to parse sequential panels, speech balloons, and onomatopoeia as a unified narrative form that would become foundational to the modern comic book.