Captain Billy's Whiz Bang #24 — page 22: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page is primarily text commentary on contemporary literary celebrities, not a cartoon. The author discusses: **F. Scott Fitzgerald** — described as a young author with "he-vamp blue eyes" whose novel "This Side of Paradise" paralleled his own life. The satire mocks how he married a woman who "turned him down" in the book. **Harold Bell Wright** — a bestselling author (9+ million copies sold) who started as a naive country preacher from Arkansas. The satire emphasizes his transformation from idealistic writer to wealthy businessman with a Rolls-Royce and divorce, while literary critics dismiss his work. The underlying joke: Wright's enormous commercial success despite critical disdain reveals the gap between popular taste and literary establishment approval. A brief final paragraph mentions a Hearst-Marion Davies studio dispute.