Eric Stanton Tin Hats Wartime Daily Comic Strip Panel dated 10-16-43 Original Art (Bell Syndicate, 1943). ...

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Eric Stanton Tin Hats Wartime Daily Comic Strip Panel dated 10-16-43 Original Art (Bell Syndicate, 1943). In the midst of an enemy attack, two U.S. soldiers marvel at the spectacle of a dog tearing up an Axis-modeled plaything: "I made Bag-Ears a Hirohito doll - but I never dreamed he'd love it so!" says the G.I. to his sergeant. Stanton's tough-minded Tin Hats lasted but a few years in syndication, leading the precocious Stanton to formal art studies, and then to the notorious semi-underground idiom of bondage cartoons, which would become the focus of his career for the longer term. Comics scholar Ger Apeldoorn cinched the connection in 2013 between Tin Hats and Stanton's kinky art of the midcentury. The signature matches between the far-removed genres, with the likeness complicated by the artist's extreme youth in the 1940s. Tin Hats bears a kinship to the World War II documentary-styled cartoons of Bill Mauldin, and to Milton Caniff's sustained show of humorous respect for foot-soldiers in Male Call. Ink and crayon over graphite on Coquille board. Image area, 6" x 7". Moderately toned/scuffed and in Very Good condition.


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