Captain Billy's Whiz Bang #3 — page 15: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page contains prose satire rather than cartoons. The narrator describes attending a dance where he observes social pretense and foolishness. He mocks "Kid Herpeicide" (a crude pun on the dandruff product Herpiside) for lying to impress a woman in a red necktie, calling him "plumb loco." Disgusted, the narrator demands his money back from the "Watch Dog of the Treasury" (likely a satirical reference to government fiscal oversight). The second section ridicules Christian Science medicine, mocking hypochondriacs who imagine ailments after reading patent medicine advertisements. The satire suggests people are healthier if they simply think positively rather than obsessing over imaginary symptoms—a skeptical jab at both Christian Science practitioners and the pharmaceutical industry's marketing tactics.