Eric Stanton Tin Hats Wartime Daily Comic Strip Panel Undated Original Art (Bell Syndicate, Inc., 1940s)....

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Eric Stanton Tin Hats Wartime Daily Comic Strip Panel Undated Original Art (Bell Syndicate, Inc., 1940s). An airborne accident between U.S. and Japanese pilots prompts this from the American: "S'posin' you'd taken that dive into one of our single-propeller jobs?" Stanton gained youthful momentum with the 1942-44 run of Tin Hats as a morale-booster feature for the Allied Forces. His dedication to the craft led to formal art-schooling, complicated by a 1947-66 affiliation with the bondage-erotica publisher Irving Klaw. Comics scholar Ger Apeldoorn cinched the connection in 2013 between Tin Hats and Stanton's notorious S&M cartoons of the midcentury. The signature matches between the far-removed genres. Tin Hats' comparative sophistication invites consideration of Stanton as a teenage prodigy. In terms of subject-matter, Tin Hats bears a greater kinship to the World War II documentarylike 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 pebble-grain Coquille board. Image area, 6.75" x 7.5". Lightly toned and in Very Good condition, considering a conspicuous adhesive stain at lower edge and a loosened typewritten caption.


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