WWII Cartoon Scrapbook Archive (2 Volumes, 1940s) – Wartime Humor, Satire & Propaganda

An original two-volume archive of hand-curated wartime cartoons, compiled during the 1940s, capturing the full spectrum of American humor, absurdity, and existential satire at the height of WWII.

📗 Volume I: 15 double-sided pages (30 total) of cartoons and selected wartime ads — including patriotic propaganda, military-industrial satire, and early signs of skepticism toward government messaging. A mixed-media record that bridges public-facing war effort and private irony.

📘 Volume II: 20 double-sided pages (40 total) dedicated entirely to black-and-white editorial cartoons — with recurring artists like Dave Breger, Batchelor, and anonymous syndicated illustrators. Themes span military absurdity, rationing, inflation, GI morale, and a rare cartoon challenging religious platitudes — a bold inclusion for the era.

These volumes are not postwar compilations. They are original wartime scrapbooks — bound, selected, and preserved by a contemporary hand who witnessed, clipped, and sequenced the American experience as it unfolded in ink and irony.

📐 Specs

📗 Volume I: 15 double-sided pages (cartoons + ads)

📘 Volume II: 20 double-sided pages (cartoons only)

Total: 70 pages of wartime visual material

Format: Original 1940s cord and ring-bound scrapbooks

Dimensions: ~11" x 8.5" each

Condition: Very good — pages structurally intact with typical age toning, no modern restoration, all content legible.

Two books. Seventy pages. A war remembered not in blood — but in pencil, ink, and disbelief

Price includes shipping and insurance.

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