Drippings from the Fawcett

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Episode 41: Crystal and Pete take a read through Captain Billy’s Whiz Bang, a wildly popular 1920s humor magazine created by Robbinsdale veteran Wilford Hamilton Fawcett. Despite its humble beginnings on a family-operated hand press in 1919, the pocket-sized joke book grew to sell hundreds of thousands of copies monthly, funding the town's first skyscraper and putting the small community on the pop culture map. Although the original publication ceased in 1936, its massive success laid the groundwork for Fawcett Comics' iconic Captain Marvel character and inspired Robbinsdale's ongoing annual "Whiz-Bang Days" celebration.

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