Were you aware of Jupiter's other (if not better) half?  "A dying planet.  Half of Jupiter."  From Siderial Evolution, Or A New Cosmology, Being an Explanation of the Principles that Pertain to Universal Life Force and Its Expressions in Form by Thomas Cushman Buddington, 1889.

Here are collected the best lions I've encountered in my research to date.

A Letter from the Ghost of Mr. S----t, To His Friends: Dispatched to Them After His Arrival at the Invisible World, 1757.  We'll take a s---tty letter any day, considering that most of our friends seem to exist in an invisible world and only communicate in return for sacrifices.

From Popular Mechanics, 1930.

From The Sketch, 1911.

By Jakob Steinhardt and Franziska Baruch, 1923.

From The Scarlet Letter yearbook (Rutgers, 1882).  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

We suspect the joke is in the very first panel, that the poet not only had a poem accepted but that he was paid for it, and paid in advance.  Hilarious!  From Judge's Library, 1895.

Here's a precursor to The Prisoner, from Judge's Library, 1907.  A "man without a number" suddenly finds himself in a strange place, not remembering how he got there but under the impression that he came from another sort of world.  His mind flashes to events that happened previously.  He is greeted by a woman who informs him that in this place, "we are all numbered," and that strangers are welcome if they are likely to become good citizens.  (Bad citizens are referred to the "committee of three hundred.")  Residents display their numbers on the hems of their garments so that they can be seen.  She points out Number One walking down the street, "a very important personage."  The man without a number is told that his own number would be (not the Prisoneresque Number Six) but Twenty-three.  He then wakes up from what turned out to be a pipe dream.  Note that the character's name, "Lyomelph Cospatrick," could be read as containing an unlikely prediction of Patrick McGoohan.