Phonin' It In Week Question:

I'm probably misinterpreting this, but...

Am I watching the Campbell's kid training to battle Hitler?

Thanks to Olaf for this pic, which I have no more information about.

It's Beginning To Feel a Lot Like Christmas

...around Chicago at any rate. The last few days have been chilly.

Which brings my thoughts to some of the delightful holiday memories I have of growing up: trimming the tree, sneaking out of bed to see if Santa came yet, eggnog (delicious without booze as a kid, even better with as an adult), thinking I was done with my presents only to have my dad bring out just one more, and of course....

The Traditional Christmas Rhino Attack.

Ali found this here.

Am I Just Phoning It In This Week?

...because I just don't even have the energy to punch today:


Maybe I'll put some more effort in tomorrow.

Barring that, does anyone have a whoopie cushion I can borrow?

Thanks to Ali for alerting me to this, which she found here.

Just Another Monday Hitler-Lynching

Nothing to see here...



I was originally aiming for a Columbus Day tie-in, but if I don't get the day off from work, you don't get a theme.

Thanks to Ali, who got this from that very confusing Hitler Library. No idea who drew it, when, or where, though.

Well, This Is a Doozy...

Okay, Golden Age. You are really hard to explain sometimes.

Short version: Private Dogtag (The World's Dumbest Soldier) is invisible due to some potion and he's flying after Hitler in an indestructible plane with his lucky ring to...oh, nevermind. Just watch:
















Dogtag was drawn (or, mostly not drawn) by Bart Tumey. The entire story can be found here.

Thanks to Olaf.

Hey Hitler, I got a match...

...your face and my butt!

HA HA!


Burn.

Sorry it's not clever today. I was consulting Dr. Scotch while I wrote this.

Thanks, Ali. And thanks Hitler Library. Unless you're pro-Hitler. In that case, drop dead Hitler Library.

HGP - INJUN' STYLE!

I always feel really awkward posting some of these pics, because there is a great deal of racial insensitivity floating under the surface. It was a different time, with different social mores. I mean, a newspaper comic starring a character named Big Chief Wahoo who could complain about having to cook by saying "Ugh! Squaw work!" is not exactly PC, or even socially acceptable these days.¹

But have that same stereotype put an arrow in Hitler's ass?

"Ugh. Wolter like. Brave work."

Big Chief Wahoo was created by writer Allen Saunders and artist Elmer Woggon,² and usually appeared in newspapers under distribution from Publisher's Syndicate. Cover taken from Famous Funnies #102. For the record, Famous Funnies is usually considered the first newstand "comic book."

Thanks to Olaf for the tip-off.

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1. Note that I didn't even mention Tojo/Hirohito. Honestly, it would be easier just to point out when the Japanese WEREN'T portrayed by racist caricatures.
2. So at least the "Wog" signature is not another random racial slur.

The Flamingo!

This is a pretty damn cool piece of work by illustrator Paul Sizer:



A description from his DeviantArt page:

The REMAKE/REMODEL thread is re-activated at Warren Ellis' WHITECHAPEL forums, and it was missed, but the time off recharged people's batteries, so it's all good. Here's this week's description of THE FLAMINGO:

"From Contact Comics in 1944:
Colonel Moore Williams knows the enemy is easily terrified by the strange and unknown, so he becomes the superhero known as the Flamingo! He has no powers and is only armed with his intellect, his physical strength, his service revolver, and a specially built plane. He uses his new identity to accomplish things the military cannot."

Because people punching Hitler NEVER goes out of style, I decided to make my Flamingo be a defender of America and a champion for the gay men in the armed forces, most of whom were not able to be "out" with their sexuality in that time period. I figured that he would have a special grudge against Hitler's Nazi regime, based on the fact that homosexuals were persecuted as much as the Jewish and Roma people during World War 2.
The pink triangle was used by the Nazis to identify homosexuals in the concentration camps, and the symbol has been re-purposed by some gay support groups in modern times, hence why I have The Flamingo wearing the triangles as a sign of defiance and pride.

Fake comic book cover for the thread.

Pencils/Inks: MANGASTUDIO EX 3.0
Colors/FX: PHOTOSHOP CS2
Graphics: FREEHAND MX

It also comes in poster form. And though this one isn't available, you can purchase another, very kickass anti-Nazi poster from that same profile.

Thanks to Olaf for the link.

Captain Marvel: Way Too Nice

Billy, you're going to have to do better than this...

"Well, to be perfectly honest, you really should be punching me."

Captain Marvel puts the Axis to the test in his own self-titled Adventures, #21 with art by the inimitable¹ C.C. Beck.

Thanks to Olaf.

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1. Okay, he's probably been imitated by hundreds of artists over the years.
   

Hello,

...I'm Johnny Cash.




Thank you once again to Olaf. This made my day.

When Boxing Gloves Are Not Enough...

Joe Palooka did some good work yesterday. But he needs to finish the job.

Joe Palooka trades in the gloves for hot lead in Joe Palooka #2, with art by Ham Fisher.

Thanks, rcs.

Get In The Ring!

No, I'm not referring to Axl Rose's petulant and childish attack on music journalists on Use Your Illusion II.

I'm referring to another famous redhead's justified and proper attack on fascist scumbags:



Joe Palooka stings like a B-29 in Big Shot #32, with art by Ham Fisher (or more likely, one of his assistants).

Thanks, Olaf.

I Don't Know Exactly What To Say About This One...

But I'm assuming a place where A JACK KIRBY MICKEY MOUSE IS PUNCHING HITLER...



...is a very magic kingdom indeed.

Thanks again to the ever-prolific Olaf. And remember, you can submit your own Hitler-Punching Art to HitlerPuncher AT gmail DOT com.

Hey Thing: What Time Is It?

Well, thank you.

And thank Olaf for this little bit o' photoshoppery.

Some Cerebral Mockery of Hitler...

...from three of America's greatest social critics:



Although I really wish there were more punching. I guess they're too highbrow for the likes of me.

Still taken from the Stooges short "You Nazty Spy." Thanks to Sauza Paul for the image.