Captain Billy's Whiz Bang #24 — page 66: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This is a title page/advertisement rather than a cartoon. It announces that *Whiz Bang*, a satirical magazine of "wit, humor and philosophy," is being adapted into a weekly motion picture—a "Screen Edition" featuring content from the magazine. The page promotes that Morrison B. Egbert is negotiating with film distributors to show this content in up to 8,000 theaters weekly. The film will feature "gems" from past issues plus new material: jokes, advice columns (from "Captain Billy"), and humorous segments like "Mail Bag" and "Pot Pourri." The title "Larry Turn the Crank" is a period colloquialism for operating a film projector, humorously encouraging theater managers to book the picture.