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Captain Billy’s Whiz Bang gave a pastor’s Egypt trip the pulp treatment in 1922

Ellsworth Toohey
Apr 29, 2026
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Captain Billy’s Whiz-Bang, January 1922

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,…

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