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[Hepcat]

Here are a couple of my Cheerios Br'er Rabbit comic booklets:

[buttock]

I picked this up in Baltimore from Al Stoltz at Basement Comics.  In WW2 with so many American men at war we needed agricultural workers so we turned to Mexico for labor under the Bracero program.  Of course they needed to be well-programmed so this was printed & handed out to convince them of the evils of the Nazis.  The title translates as "Our Future, Free People, or Slaves?"  And the back cover as "Let's not let the axis get its claws in the Americas"

[Robot Man]

On 9/25/2024 at 8:42 AM, buttock said:

I picked this up in Baltimore from Al Stoltz at Basement Comics.  In WW2 with so many American men at war we needed agricultural workers so we turned to Mexico for labor under the Bracero program.  Of course they needed to be well-programmed so this was printed & handed out to convince them of the evils of the Nazis.  The title translates as "Our Future, Free People, or Slaves?"  And the back cover as "Let's not let the axis get its claws in the Americas"

Wild book! Al Stoltz has always had the foresight to pick up the most unusual books! 

[BOOT]

On 9/25/2024 at 11:42 AM, buttock said:

 

Thank you for posting this. Great comic! I have never seen a copy before, never even knew it existed.

Searching for more information about the American Jewish Committee and their comic books, I found this thesis from the University of Sussex:

Imagining brotherhood: the comics of the American Jewish Committee 1941-1948

Here is a direct link to the PDF of the thesis.  34.52 MB

Apparently the American Jewish Committee also published comics through their National Labor Services organization.

The thesis claims the AJC published some other comics, although the publication info on some of these is not totally clear. Some of these include:

There Are No Master Races

They Got The Blame

Three Pals

They also published Joe Worker and The Story of Labor. Several different versions of the comic have been documented.

The archives of the American Jewish Committee feature great scans of many Joe Worker weekly comic strips. Looks like these were scanned from the original art. Here is a sample:

Robot Man is right about Al Stoltz and Basement Comics. He has an incredibly deep knowlege of comic book history and knows the truly rare books. I hope someone finds a way to download his vast knowledge for permanent storage!

Edited Sunday at 11:24 PM by BOOT

[buttock]

On 10/13/2024 at 5:22 PM, BOOT said:

Thank you for posting this. Great comic! I have never seen a copy before, never even knew it existed.

Searching for more information about the American Jewish Committee and their comic books, I found this thesis from the University of Sussex:

Imagining brotherhood: the comics of the American Jewish Committee 1941-1948

Here is a direct link to the PDF of the thesis.  34.52 MB

Apparently the American Jewish Committee also published comics through their National Labor Services organization.

The thesis claims the AJC published some other comics, although the publication info on some of these is not totally clear. Some of these include:

There Are No Master Races

They Got The Blame

Three Pals

They also published Joe Worker and The Story of Labor. Several different versions of the comic have been documented.

The archives of the American Jewish Committee feature great scans of many Joe Worker weekly comic strips. Looks like these were scanned from the original art. Here is a sample:

Robot Man is right about Al Stoltz and Basement Comics. He has an incredibly deep knowlege of comic book history and knows the truly rare books. I hope someone finds a way to download his vast knowledge for permanent storage!

Awesome!  Thanks for the info!

[sfcityduck]

On 10/13/2024 at 4:22 PM, BOOT said:

Thank you for posting this. Great comic! I have never seen a copy before, never even knew it existed.

Searching for more information about the American Jewish Committee and their comic books, I found this thesis from the University of Sussex:

Imagining brotherhood: the comics of the American Jewish Committee 1941-1948

Here is a direct link to the PDF of the thesis.  34.52 MB

Apparently the American Jewish Committee also published comics through their National Labor Services organization.

The thesis claims the AJC published some other comics, although the publication info on some of these is not totally clear. Some of these include:

There Are No Master Races

They Got The Blame

Three Pals

They also published Joe Worker and The Story of Labor. Several different versions of the comic have been documented.

The archives of the American Jewish Committee feature great scans of many Joe Worker weekly comic strips. Looks like these were scanned from the original art. Here is a sample:

Robot Man is right about Al Stoltz and Basement Comics. He has an incredibly deep knowlege of comic book history and knows the truly rare books. I hope someone finds a way to download his vast knowledge for permanent storage!

GREAT POST! Always happy to learn cool new things!

[Dr. Love]

[Dr. Love]

We all know Kurt Schaffenberger's incomparable legacy for DC and the Superman Family. 

But he did heavy lifting for ACG and their division Custom Comics that published promotional comics.  67 of them are his.

Here's a few