Captain Billy's Whiz Bang #3 — page 59: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This is a text-only page from *Whiz Bang* magazine (page 57) containing a humorous anecdote titled "Captain Billy's Whiz Bang." The passage describes a sailor who contracted the "Kill-em-Quick Flu" (likely referencing the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic) and was treated with moonshine whiskey as folk medicine. The humor centers on the narrator's hangover and subsequent disciplinary troubles when a Chicago Major named Constantine B. Howard ("Con") reports him for refusing to wake during duty. The piece satirizes both quack medical remedies popular during the flu epidemic and military discipline. There are no visible cartoons on this page—it's purely comedic narrative text typical of *Whiz Bang's* irreverent, working-class humor style.