Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, December 1921 · page 66 of 68
Captain Billy's Whiz Bang #28 — page 66: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is **not a cartoon or satirical content** — it's a **direct-mail advertisement** for Whiz Bang magazine's annual collection. Whiz Bang was an early 20th-century humor magazine featuring jokes, stories, and "smokehouse poetry" (bawdy humor). This ad promotes their 1921-22 Winter Annual: a 256-page bound book sold for one dollar. The sales pitch uses scarcity marketing — claiming last year's smaller annual sold out within days across the Pacific Coast and couldn't be found nationwide within ten days. The urgency ("First Come will be First Served!") and the unusual payment method ("PIN A DOLLAR BILL" to the coupon) suggest either novelty marketing or practical concerns about mail security in the early 1920s. For modern readers: this represents pre-internet direct marketing, where magazines drummed up subscriptions and merchandise sales through print ads, relying on postal delivery and personal payment methods.
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Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
A Christmas Gift! Whiz Bang's greatest book—The Winter An- nual 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.