Comics as Propaganda, Section 6

This last section is on the Home Front.

The propaganda on the home front was to convince people that they needed to help out in any way they could such as staying on their jobs and missing few days; collecting scrap paper and metal; buying war bonds and stamps, planting victory gardens, etc.

This was geared towards women.

A comic book cover showing the buying of war bonds.

A comic book cover about saving paper for the war effort.

Here Bugs Bunny is in a cartoon that promotes the buying of war bonds and stamps.

Here's a comic book cover promoting the buying of war bonds.

A cover showing a war stamp. They were for younger people who couldn't directly afford a bond. They could buy stamps, put them in a booklet, and when that was filled turn it in for an actual war bond.

A comic cover promoting the buying of war bonds.

Some covers showed what the money from the bonds was used to buy for the military.

A cover showing Hirohito being buried by bonds.

This combines the message of buying bonds with showing what the bonds can be used for.

Scrap drivers were something young people could be part of.

A German propaganda poster about saving paper.

Rationing was also used on some comic covers.

Some covers dealt with the concept of black marketeering during the war.

This part starts out by talking about victory gardens.

The author says not many comics featured victory gardens on their covers.

There was also an effort to get non-farmers to work on farms.

This cover shows a number of ways women contributed to the war effort.

Some covers showed people participating in civil defense activities.

The Red Cross made it to the cover of some comics.

Another Red Cross-related cover.

Here's another cover dealing with war production.

One other topic they covered was sabotage in factories.

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