Featured in this lot are Vintage Capt. Billy's Whiz Bang Magazines, circa 1922. Published by Fawcett Publications starting in 1919, owner and publisher Wilford Hamilton "Capt. Billy" Fawcett created his bawdy cartoon and joke magazine and it became a launchpad for a vast publishing empire embracing magazines, comic books and paperback books including True Confessions, Family Circle, Women's Day and Captain Marvel comics. The book Humor Magazines and Comic Periodicals notes: "Few periodicals reflect the post-WW I cultural change in American life as well as Captain Billy’s Whiz Bang. To some people [it] represented the decline of morality and the flaunting of sexual immodesty; to others it signified an increase in openness. For much of the 1920s, Captain Billy’s was the most prominent comic magazine in America with its mix of racy poetry and naughty jokes and puns, aimed at a small-town audience with pretensions of "sophistication". Captain Billy's Whiz Bang has been immortalized in the lyrics to the song "Ya Got Trouble" from Meredith Wilson's 1957 Broadway musical, The Music Man. The three editions included are January, 1922 No. 29, February, 1922 No. 30, and, March, 1922 No 31. Each magazine is in good preserved condition, age tanning exhibited consistent with 100+ year age. Each measures 5.25"W x 7.75"L approximately, combined weight 6oz.