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  "textContent": "_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 \n\nThe post Captain Billy's Whiz Bang gave a pastor's Egypt trip the pulp treatment in 1922 appeared first on Boing Boing.",
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