Andy: He hasn't rewritten the speech. Those are all real covers. When he's got thousands of covers, there's bound to be a few dozen really fucked up ones.
Anyone else think that a lot of these comics are just government propaganda (in disguise) from back in WW2? Especially ones like this:
And any others talking about 'Japanazis'. They actually seem like friendlier\cartoonier versions of this:
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"Say you're hanging from a huge cliff at the top of mt. everest and a guy comes along and says he'll save you, and proceeds to throw religious pamphlets at you while simultaniously giving a sermon." - Dustin G
Anyone else think that a lot of these comics are just government propaganda (in disguise) from back in WW2?
Hardly in disguise. "BUY WAR BONDS" isn't exactly subtle. WW2 was kind of a big deal, everyone was doing it. Just about everything at the time was telling people to buy bonds. You've probably seen the Bugs Bunny propaganda films.
*sigh*
They're real. Most of them are over 50 years old.
From wikipedia entry "DC Comics":
The company was originally three companies, National Allied Publications, Detective Comics, and All-American Publications. The first two companies merged in the 1930s to become National Comics (later National Periodical Publications) and the third shared offices until it was bought by the merged company in 1945. At this time "DC", an abbreviation for Detective Comics, was simply an informal logo regularly used on the cover.
Didn't know that these war things were so popular back then. Good idea, I suppose. I'm still shocked by how they stereotype the Japanese so badly. "It's alright to slap a jap"? Hmm
"Say you're hanging from a huge cliff at the top of mt. everest and a guy comes along and says he'll save you, and proceeds to throw religious pamphlets at you while simultaniously giving a sermon." - Dustin G
Kris: There was the small matter of an ongoing war at the time. It's nothing that isn't happening now. Anyone who doesn't agree with the US is demonized as a "terrorist."
Well, of course there was a war, but I find it a bit immature that they stereotyped their adversaries like that
"Say you're hanging from a huge cliff at the top of mt. everest and a guy comes along and says he'll save you, and proceeds to throw religious pamphlets at you while simultaniously giving a sermon." - Dustin G
It's amusing to see how many times they re-used the same "But why would superman do such a thing? Read on to find out!" storylines. For a similarly un-heroic superman look for losing lois lane on ifilm. It's a pretty amusing fan film.
Why the hell am I on the computer at 1 in the morning? No, don't answer.
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