Captain Billy's Whiz Bang was a humor magazine launched in 1919 by Wilford Hamilton "Captain Billy" Fawcett, a WWI veteran from Minnesota. Named for the artillery shells he'd heard in France, it ran until 1936 and was one of the most popular adult-humor publications of its era: suggestive cartoons, off-color jokes, and material that strained the limits of respectability. Its success bankrolled the Fawcett Publications empire that eventually produced Captain Marvel comics. The January 1922 issue included "The Flesh Pots of Egypt," a travel dispatch by Rev. "Golightly" Morrill, pastor of People's Church in Minneapolis. The reverend toured Alexandria and Cairo and filed a piece that reads as if he came to condemn vice and found it extremely compelling.…