Word: mechanix
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...years Whiz Bang soared to a circulation of 425,000, brought Captain Billy close to $500,000 a year. Then its trajectory turned earthward again: by 1930 it was down to 150,000, in 1932 it folded. Meanwhile, with his profits Captain Billy started True Confessions, Screen Play, Modern Mechanix, Smokehouse Monthly, For Men, Amateur Golfer & Sportsman, various others. But Whiz Bang was his darling. Wherever he went while Whiz Bang lasted Captain Billy picked up ribald jokes, sent them back with his monthly editorial, Drippings from the Fawcett...