Captain Billy's Whiz Bang was a humor magazine launched in 1919 by Wilford Hamilton "Captain Billy" Fawcett, a WWI veteran from Minnesota. Named for the artillery shells he'd heard in France, it ran until 1936 and was one of the most popular adult-humor publications of its era: suggestive cartoons, off-color jokes, and material that strained the limits of respectability. — Read the rest
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