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Dirty Godless No-Good Reds!

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bluechip

bluechip

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Okay it's a silver age book but it's SET in the Golden Age, and it's about a dirty lousy pinko peacenik.

 

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And this one is rare for being published in the pre-WW2 anti-commie period. In fact, this cover which depicts Stalin as a villain in 1941, got hastily changed when, shortly after this ad appeared, Hitler invaded the Soviet Union and, suddenly, the folks at Timely concluded, the commies were going to be our friends.

 

They were way ahead of the game, because the U.S. wasn't even in the war yet.

 

But sure enough, in the months to come the U.S. Gov would be asking entertainment folk to depict the Reds as lovable rascals who shared with us a common foe.

 

(of course, a few years later, you could get get called before Congress for doing that very thing -- and it didn't matter that your government had asked you to do it)

 

Which makes you wonder why Stan Lee and gang weren't called before Congress during the McCarthy era. Heck, not only had they put the Russies in a good light between 41 and 45, but they had gone after Hitler BEFORE we were at war -- which made them (in the parlance of the proceeedings) "premature anti-fascists>" (translation: commie)

 

 

 

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adamstrange

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Great theme for a thread -- and what a great set of books to kick it off! 893applaud-thumb.gif893applaud-thumb.gif

 

As far as Stan goes, he seems to have been the most consistently Anti-Commie of the publishers in the 50s and 60s -- so far as I can recollect.

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