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Fawcett Publications
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Fawcett Publications
Fawcett Publications
was an
American
publishing company founded in 1919 in
Robbinsdale, Minnesota
by
Wilford Hamilton "Captain Billy" Fawcett
(1885–1940). At the age of 16, Fawcett ran away from home to join the Army, and the
Spanish–American War
took him to the Philippines. Back in Minnesota, he became a police reporter for the
Minneapolis Journal
. While a
World War I
Army captain, Fawcett's experience with the Army publication
Stars and Stripes
gave him the notion to get into publishing, and his bawdy
cartoon
and
joke
magazine
,
Captain Billy's Whiz Bang
, became the launch pad for a vast publishing empire embracing magazines,
comic books
and
paperback books
.
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