Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, September 1921 · page 66 of 68
Captain Billy's Whiz Bang #27 — page 66: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is an advertisement, not a cartoon. **Whiz Bang** was a humor magazine, and this page promotes its annual compilation book for winter 1921-22. The ad uses aggressive sales tactics typical of early 20th-century direct mail: urgency ("First Come will be First Served!"), scarcity claims (last year's smaller edition sold out in days across the U.S.), and a simple mail-order system (pin a dollar bill to a coupon). The tone is deliberately casual and colloquial ("Remember, Folk," "hurry up!"), matching the magazine's satirical humor style. The final note—dismissing requests for back issues—suggests strong demand and supply problems, likely reflecting post-WWI printing limitations and paper shortages of the early 1920s.
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The Annual Is Out! Whiz Bang's greatest book—The Winter Annual Pedigreed Follies of 1921-22—hot off the press. Orders are now being mailed. There will be no delay as long as the supply lasts. If your news stand's quota is sold out— PIN A DOLLAR BILL Or your check, money order or stamps To the coupon on the opposite page. And receive our 256-page bound volume of jokes, jests, jingles, stories, pot pourri, mail bag and Smokehouse poetry. The best collection ever put in print. REMEMBER, FOLK Last year our Annual (which was only one-fourth as large as the 1921-22 book) was sold out on the Pacific Coast within three or four days, and not a copy could be bought anywhere in the United States within ten days. So hurry up! First Come will be First Served! Pin your dollar bill to the coupon and mail to the Whiz Bang Farm, Robbinsdale, Minn. **Don't write for early back copies of our regular issues. We haven't any left.**