Superheroes decking Hitler

[Dr. Rent]

Way back in the Golden Age, it was not uncommon for superheroes to solve real-world problems by punching dictators in the face. I am conducting research on the topic and would like to know if anyone here is familiar with or (even better) has a scanned image of the cover/panel of a comic in which a superhero is punching Adolf Hitler. I am familiar with the famous Captain America #1 cover, but I'm sure there are similar images in other comics.

If this is not the right forum in which to ask for such help, I apologize and ask if someone knows a better place to ask for such images.

[Aaron Kashtan]

Do you post on the comixschl-l mailing list? I may be misremembering, but I think I recall someone posting the same question on that list.

[MDG]

http://www.dialbforblog.com/archives/281/

He's not getting hit in all of them, but he's usually on the recisving end of something bad.

MDG

[Mike Kuypers]

Here's a Master Comics (http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=1348&zoom=4) issue with Hitler getting socked.

[Slam_Bradley]

Apropos of not much, my 10 year old son finds these covers hilarious.

[glue]

Apropos of not much, my 10 year old son finds these covers hilarious.


That's because they are. I'd love a t-shirt with that NATIONAL COMICS #39 cover.

[Rob Allen]

A couple more - first, Captain Marvel Jr. belts Hitler and Tojo - literally!

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=2331&zoom=4

And here CM Jr. is in a symbolic football game against the Axis leaders:

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=3237&zoom=4

[benday-dot]

Some people are inclined to think such comic depictions of Hitler trivializes the appalling horrors of the previous century. The image of a muscled man in tights socking it to an idiotic and bluthering Hitler is such a remove from the particular horrors of the holocaust that they may seem an offense to the victims of real terror and mass annihilation. Others, however, will simply see these depictions for the works of propaganda they were intended to be. Regardless, I don't believe in censorship, and your project seems valuable as both and an exercise in comic book and propaganda history, as well as a nice look back at pop culture of the 40's.

Here's what I found, all courtesy of www.comics.org

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=3215&zoom=4

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=3105&zoom=4

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=1361&zoom=4

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=1522&zoom=4

and my personal favourite...

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=2713&zoom=4

Incidentally, if you are not confining your search to Hitler being socked, and are interested in Tojo getting it too, or in propaganda covers in general check out the nice compilation on http://www.superdickery.com/propaganda/1.html

[Aaron Kashtan]

It might also be worthwhile to consider Michael Chabon's discussion of this same theme in Kavalier & Clay. I remember that Joe Kavalier was fervently opposed to Hitler and insisted on including violent anti-Nazi imagery in his comics.

[Dr. Rent]

Thank you, everyone, for your help. It's most appreciated. That said, keep 'em coming! While I don't necessarily need great quantities of images, I'll take every example I can get.

Sir Tim Drake - No, I have not visited that forum; it's just a coincidence.

benday-dot - Thank you. Propaganda in pop culture is a fascinating topic to me, and it's always nice to see others interested as well. Makes me feel less insane! And no, my research need not be exclusive to Hitler. I chose him simply because he is such an iconic figure, and I knew there would be plenty of good material about him, but if there are any other particularly striking images, I'd love to have those as well.

[Augusto]

Fatastic Four 292. Nick Fury agaisnt Adolf

[foxley]

Here's some more:

http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/216/400/216_4_009.jpg

http://www.gcdcovers.com/graphics/covers/237/400/237_4_002.jpg

[MDG]

He's not getting decked--actually, he has the upper hand--but this is probabaly my favorite Hitler cover:

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=18369&zoom=4

[Jeff O.]

A hero without a cape or mask, boxer Joe Palooka was a logical choice to fight the Axis on cover bouts. (Looks like Joe was a close personal friend of Uncle Sam, too.)

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=1732&zoom=4


http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=2245&zoom=4


http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=2750&zoom=4


http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=3228&zoom=4


http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=3679&zoom=4


Other BIG SHOT heroes also wanted to get in on the action, of course.


Skyman:

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=2366&zoom=4


Sparky Watts:

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=2419&zoom=4

Sparky was the World's Strongest Man.



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[Jeff O.]

SUPER DUCK COMICS No. 1 (1944)

http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/13220/400/13220_4_001.jpg

[Jeff O.]

Hitler even showed up in the pages of BIG SHOT again after the War.

In 1947, Skyman found out Hitler was still alive and hiding out on the moon.

http://www.oddballcomics.com/covers/bigshot80-adolfhitler.jpg


Scan comes from this Oddball Comics article:

http://www.oddballcomics.com/article.php?story=archive2002-08-28



Over at Fiction House, in 1948, Hitler was brought back to life in JUMBO COMICS.

http://www.oddballcomics.com/covers/jumbocomics109-hitler.jpg


Synopsis of the entire story can be found in "The Ghost Gallery" section

at

http://www.oddballcomics.com/article.php?story=archive2003-10-10



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[Jeff O.]

And no study of Hitler in comics can be complete without the 1945 story of how Cosmo the Victory Bug was the "real" cause of the dictator's downfall.

http://www.oddballcomics.com/article.php?story=archive2003-09-05



Also pretty striking to me is the way Bingo The Amazing Kangaroo decked Nazi agents on American soil on the eve of the U. S.'s entrance into World War II. Bingo, the pet and ally of Kangaroo Man, would kick the "enemy agents" in the face with his big feet -- and whack the saboteurs with his tail. Imagine how much it would hurt having those feet wrapped around one's face, with those marsupial nails starting to dig in!

http://www.oddballcomics.com/article.php?story=archive2005-04-01

Since the enemy agents were trying to operate in America secretly, and because the story was written before Pearl Harbor, I imagine that's why one needs to know what the story's about in order to know what those foes on this 1941 cover represent. In other words, that's why the foes weren't sporting easy-to-identify Nazi paraphernalia -- as an artist might have given them once America was officially in the War.



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[foxley]

http://www.gcdcovers.com/graphics/covers/276/400/276_4_0013.jpg

[Augusto]

Another one. Marvel What if vol. 2 #28
http://www.coverbrowser.com/image/what-if/28-1.jpg

[Augusto]

And the interior panel...
http://img374.imageshack.us/img374/7865/hitlerup2.jpg