Captain Billy's Whiz Bang #59 — page 67: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This is an **advertisement/title page**, not a satirical cartoon. It promotes "Capt. Billy's Smokehouse Poetry Book" and a "1923-24 Winter Annual" from *Whiz Bang* magazine, published by Fawcett Publications in Robbinsdale, Minnesota. The page features an illustration of a man in a coat pointing/beckoning (the "Last Call" imagery), alongside images of two book covers. The ad emphasizes scarcity ("Only a Few Copies Left") and offers both publications for $1-2, with an order form below requesting name, address, city, and state. This represents typical **early 1920s magazine marketing**—using urgency and collectibility to drive sales of related publications to existing readers.