Happy Fourth of July!
Original Vintage Art & Text
Art by Charles Sulton from Yankee Comics #2, Nov. 1941.
Transcript:
Three people (a boy superhero named Dandy and two men in patriotic superhero suits—Major Victory and Yankee Doodle Jones—reprise the image from The Spirit of ’76.
In the background there are fireworks.
Major Victory: Happy Independence Day!
1941 Art: Charles Sultan Restoration & Text: John Lustig
Art from Yankee Comics #2.
↓ Transcript
Three people (a boy superhero named Dandy and two men in patriotic superhero suits---Major Victory and Yankee Doodle Jones---reprise the image from The Spirit of '76.
In the background there are fireworks.
Major Victory: Happy Independence Day!
1941 Art: Charles Sultan Restoration & Text: John Lustig
Art from Yankee Comics #2.
In the background there are fireworks.
Major Victory: Happy Independence Day!
1941 Art: Charles Sultan Restoration & Text: John Lustig
Art from Yankee Comics #2.
That comic would have printed the Summer just before the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7th of that same year.
Looking very tough and manly, while playing the transverse flute. Quite a feat!
Personally, I would have preferred the fife guy play the bagpipes… but then, that’s just me.
One side note– the inflation rate is such that ten cents in 1941 would be $1.83 in 2021 dollars. Comics were not really cheap.