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Issue: Captain Billy's Whiz Bang #156
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Publisher: FlagFawcett
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Indicia Publisher: Popular Magazines Inc.
On Sale Date: 09/10/1931
Volume: 14
Pages: 68
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Price: $0.25 USD
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Content Items: 49 (0 stories, 1 cover)
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Disclose Notes: On-sale date from the publication date reported to the U.S. Copyright Office and recorded in the Catalogue of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1931, New Series, Volume 25, Number 4, page 596. Two copies were received by the Copyright Office on August 31, 1931. Class B periodical. Copyright registration number: B 127158.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color covers; black and white interior
Dimensions: digest
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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A Pinch Hitter!

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sports
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You'll Fight --

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Inside front cover.

Promotional house advertisement for the new cartoon book, On the Spot (Fawcett [Popular Magazines, Inc.], 1931) #nn (1931).
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Now let's see you make a seven
Two insects are rolling dice.
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Safety Matches

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Two couples are in a literal shotgun wedding.
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[untitled]

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Dripping from the Fawcett by Captain Billy
Captain Billy
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The cartoon logo for the "Dripping from the Fawcett by Captain Billy" feature written by Wilford Hamilton Fawcett.
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sports
Miss Chatterton - not a moving picture!
Two men comment on a racing horse.
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Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr.
Ice water
Vanderbilt toasts his guests with ice water.
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A cartoon accompanying the article, "Putting on the Ritz."
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A New Drive on the Arid Links

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Well-to-do men in top hats involved in random chaos.
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A cartoon accompanying the story, "A New Drive on the Arid Links."
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[untitled]

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humorous, sports
Zane Grey; unnamed game warden
But that doesn't mean me!
Zane Grey argues game laws do not apply to him.
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The cartoon accompanying the story, "A Slap on the Wrist" is about Zane Grey being penalized by the Arizona State Fish and Game Commission for breaking sportsmen fishing laws.
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Two Minutes to Play

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Football Terms Illustrated
May I get off at 4:30 today, dear?
It is 4:29 and the woman sitting on the lap of her romantic partner asks to end things at 4:30.
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Ring Around Rosy

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Rose
Say, Rose, are you going to the party tonight?
Man offers to ring Rose later when she says she will be at the party with bells on.
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An early morning pick-up coming in strong.
Garbage men play loud music early in the morning while picking up trash.
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He's Better Brush Up a Bit

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You say that I am the first model you ever kissed?
A man tells a model she is the first he's ever kissed. The previous models he has had were an apple, two oranges, and a box of cigars.
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Always a Serious Problem

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Brown, you ought to be ashamed of yourself!
Brown is chastised by his dining companion for fooling around with other women while married. Brown tells him he does not fool around.
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Prize Bulls
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The cartoon logo for the "Prize Bulls" joke submissions feature, covering across two pages.
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Licenses

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Gimme a Hunting License for a traveling salesman!
A man with a shotgun goes to the license office with a specific license request.
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The Count
They call this little bimbo 'Palooka' she took the Count after the first 'Round'!
A woman makes the Count broke.
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Under Separate Cover

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drama, humorous
A couple laying in separate beds but the woman is trying to seduce the man.
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Financial Term Illustrated

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humorous
The Count
Getting something on a Count
The Count is being spied upon while with a paramour.
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The Marines Have the Situation Well in Hand

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humorous, science and technology
First nurse - 'What's the age limit for sailors?' Second nurse - 'Listen, dearie, a sailot is the limit at any age!'
Two nurses are about to enter a room with Marines in it.
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Hide, Wide, and Handsome

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A view of women's legs.
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[untitled]

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Capt Billy's Pot Boilers
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Toasting the Tootsies

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Two modern flappers warm their long legs by the fire.
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He Got a Bad Break

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A man was pulled over by a speed cop. When the officer asked him if there was anything that controlled his speed. The man implied the date he was with did that already.
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[untitled]

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Smokehouse Poetry
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She Killed a Man

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crime
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A cartoon title for the Harold C. Brown poem.
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Gentle Prohibition

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A cartoon logo for the Dalnar Deverning poem.
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She's Probably a Wet Blanket

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Fanny; Gladys
Fanny - 'I hear there was one fellow short at your party.' Gladys - 'Yeah, that's always my luck!'
Fanny and Gladys lament the missing men at the aprty.
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Rattling Dem Bones

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Flapper Housewife; Lulu; palpitating papa
Flapper Housewife - 'For heaven's sake, Lulu, curb that palpitating papa of yours...'
Flapper Housewife catches Lulu and her man of the porch making out.
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Paris Green

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A man admires a woman wearing a sheer dress in Paris.
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Couldn't Feel His Way in the Dark

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Bill; Sid
Bill - 'I hear a guy came out of the park last night and caught you necking in his car?'
Sid tells Bill he had the right idea but the wrong car.
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College Yelps
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A cartoon logo spread over two pages for the feature "College Yelps" which reprints humorous shorts from college newspapers and magazines. The article includes three cartoon illustrations.
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Now don't go away mad!
A man with a balloon escapes from a sanitarium.
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Uurl Burt (signed)
Uurl Burt (signed)
Uurl Burt (signed)
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humorous
Oh, how I hate to 'giddup' in the morning
The milkman is not thrilled with how he has to start his day.
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A girl isn't always through with a man, just because she lets him down
A man has to escape out the window when the woman's husband arrives home.
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Green Pastures!

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Judge; Mandy
Judge - 'Now Mandy, you tell the court just why Rastus insists upon a divorce after being married for ten years.
Mandy tells the judge Rastas has become bored with her.
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Another Doubting Thomas

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anthropomorphic, humorous
A male cat looks at his female cat's litter and looks side-eye at her one black cat.
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Tailspin Fanny Sez:
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Cartoon logo for the "Tailspin Fanny Sez:" humorous advice feature.
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Out the Window You Must Go!

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She - 'How do you like my window sill?' He - 'Best I've come across yet.'
A couple necking is not talking about a real window.
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Just Egging Him On

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Hard-boiled Diner - 'What's wrong with these eggs, sister?' Waitress - 'Don't ask me; I only laid the table'
The waitress tells the diner she didn't make the eggs.
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You dropped your combination, lady!
A woman in a cafeteria line drops he combination salad to the floor.
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Here's a corker

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What did that pretty clerk in the surgical supply store do...
Two women talk about the story of a fresh guy coming in asking about their best wooden leg and then being taken down a peg.
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The Girl Who Left Under a Cloud

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A couple parachutes out of an airplane.
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The maid who took a pet in the park every morning.
A woman finds she attracts a police officer by bringing a dog to the park.
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Captain Billy's Bull Pen
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humorous
Captain Billy Physic Medium
Sees nothing - knows nothing - tells all
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A cartoon logo for the "Captain Billy Physic Medium" humorous advice column.
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Siphoning Off!

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A woman siphoning from a bucket into bottles bootleg liquor.
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The Second Quarter

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Football Terms Illustrated
A boy blows raspberries at a girl and her boyfriend.
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Inside back cover.

The image is printed in green instead of black.
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1932 Whiz Bang Winter Annual

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Back cover. Printed in green and red.

Promotional house advertisement for Capt. Billy's Whiz Bang Winter Annual (Fawcett [Popular Magazines, Inc., 1931 series) #nn (Winter 1932). Listed for 1.00 USD and on-sale at newsstand on October 1st (1931).

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