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kusunoki:
When reading golden age comics, every so often one finds a page or a panel that just defies belief. I thought it might be interesting to share these and create something of an archive of the disturbing elements of early comics.

That being said, I offer up a page from Hangman 3 (1942), which for some reason or another is the top rated comic offered for download. The book itself is quite an interesting piece of work, featuring a carpet bombing of "Tokio" ordered after a Japanese supervillain captured and dismembered General Chiang Kai-shek. As worthy of note on its own as that story was, it's the one-page ad for a fan organization afterward that really leaves one speechless.

http://img651.imageshack.us/img651/2821/hangman0347kns.jpg...

narfstar:
Picture did not come through K
make sure your link is active

kusunoki:

--- Quote from: narfstar on April 25, 2010, 08:34:00 AM ---Picture did not come through K
make sure your link is active

--- End quote ---

That's strange. It shows up fine in my browser...

Astaldo711:
I think the part he was trying to show was "Civilian Casualties Severe." I can't imagine that even back then killing civilians was okay. I saw an interview a British guy gave during WW2 and when asked about bombing Berlin, he said "I feel sorry for the women and children of Germany but what about the women and children of Britain?" The interview was given in the streets after a blitz attack on London. Even after this, he didn't seem bloodthirsty at all. Not the way that ad seemed to make it.

narfstar:
It is coming through now not sure why not earlier. We have to remember how vilified the "Japs" were then. Many would have lumped them all together as evil. I have the Life Mag the week following Pearl Harbor. In it there is a guide on how to tell a Chinese from Japanese. There was a hatred for the "Japenese race"

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