Captain Billy's Whiz Bang #57 — page 36: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page features a photograph of actress/dancer Gilda Gray in a suggestive pose, partially draped in dark fabric. The accompanying caption presents a mild joke: a character named Olaf observes Gray playing strip poker and expresses hope the game "isn't crooked"—a double meaning playing on "crooked" as both dishonest and physically bent/contorted. The humor relies on Gilda Gray's fame as a performer known for provocative entertainment (she popularized the "shimmy" dance), making the strip poker reference topical. The joke is relatively tame by modern standards but would have seemed risqué for the 1920s-era *Whiz Bang*, a magazine known for cheeky humor and pin-up style content. The "Farm Album" framing suggests this was part of a recurring photo feature.