Captain Billy's Whiz Bang #22 — page 44: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page contains two poems, not cartoons. "Captain Billy's Whiz Bang" (top) is a baseball poem parodying Ernest Thayer's famous "Casey at the Bat" (1888). Instead of striking out, this Casey hits the ball so hard it flies out of sight entirely—a humorous inversion of the original's tragic ending. The poem celebrates this impossible feat while mocking the crowd's disappointed reaction. Below, "Expurgated" by "Buck Private" Budd L. McKillipps satirizes censorship of soldier songs during wartime. The poem describes a fellow singing a soldier ballad with words "all wrong"—likely referring to how military authorities sanitized or altered popular songs for morale purposes, removing profanity or antiwar sentiment.