Golden Age Political Comic Books - NO MODERN POLITICS! 3 3

[sfcityduck]

On 3/20/2016 at 8:50 PM, BOOT said:

Rare World War II-era Anti-U.S. Intervention Comic Book

 

This unusual comic book is a collection of cartoons opposing American intervention in the wars in Europe, Asia, and Africa – what we now call World War II. Its title "To enter the wars now reaching in Europe, Asia and Africa would be an act of national folly from which country must be spared!"

 

This was produced by the America First Committee of Chicago. On their national committee sat Henry Ford and Capt. Edward Rickenbacker.

 

Very interesting book I've never seen before. Terrible cover. Wonder what the isolationists had against art? Maybe because the best comic artists came from immigrant families?

[sfcityduck]

Here's another of the DC Giveaways. The only GA (maybe all ages) comic I know of inspired and jointly published by a Nobel Prize winner for literature - Pearl Buck, and it concerns the topic which made her famous - life in China. 

She was on the DC Advisory Board at that time.

Here's an article on the collaboration:

The comic was a reprint of a story in Comic Calvacade. Johnny Everyman as a DC backup was very political including a mind-blowing anti-Segregation story. DC was always a liberal publisher, but to publish an anti-segregation comic story in 1948 was a bold choice that most comic publishers were not making back then for fear of offending their audience in the South. 

[BOOT]

On 6/6/2024 at 4:38 PM, sfcityduck said:

jointly published by a Nobel Prize winner for literature - Pearl Buck, and it concerns the topic which made her famous - life in China. 

Here is a another from The East and West Association, Pearl S. Buck, President.

 

[BOOT]

On 3/20/2016 at 11:23 PM, BOOT said:

Senator Brien McMahon – Statesman from Connecticut

 

This guy is the bomb! This was produced by the Citizens Committee for the Reelection of Senator Brian McMahon. The front cover shows Senator McMahon with a futuristic city behind him, complete with soaring rocketships and an atomic bomb’s mushroom cloud! This guy had power! McMahon was the chairman of the Senate special committee on atomic energy in 1945. He sponsored the bill that became the Atomic Energy Act. After an atomic bomb was detonated at Alamogordo New Mexico in July 1945, Senator McMahon called it "the most important thing in history since the birth of Jesus Christ." Next to this rare comic book, that is!

 

Forgot to mention this has artwork by Alex Kotzky and was written by Victor Fox of Fox Comics.

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