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COMICS WITH PROBLEMS issue #35

Early American Hysterics Edition

AMERICA UNDER SOCIALISM! (1950, Chicago)

PROBLEM(s) DEALT WITH: Who can even tell anymore. Still a very rare comic showing a sixty year glimpse into a still discussed issue.

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Ethan
COMICS WITH PROBLEMS issue #35 
 
Early American Hysterics Edition 
AMERICA UNDER SOCIALISM! (1950, Chicago)  
 
PROBLEM(s) DEALT WITH: Who can even tell anymore. Still a very rare comic showing a sixty year glimpse into a still discussed issue.

02/07/2010, 16:17:34

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The Helvetica Scenario
Heh, maybe Glenn Beck read this as a child.

02/07/2010, 23:45:29

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Talking Talking Talk...
I just wonder about the artist who read the script to this thing and said, "It's nothing but talking! How do I draw this." Pretty imaginative solutions, given the bullshit.

02/08/2010, 12:39:56

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Trackback
http://www.thinkoplex.com/2010/02/comics-with-problems-america-under.html

02/09/2010, 12:17:22

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good midwestern boy
thanks for posting this... personally, if this is hysteria, i'm hysterical - and really glad that you put this out into the public eye.

02/10/2010, 09:08:37

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Grogix
The only thing man learns from history is that man doesn't learn from history. 
It started with Hitler in Germany and now Obozo in Amerika.

02/11/2010, 05:35:55

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Zacharias
Someone only read the first chapter of 1984.

02/12/2010, 10:03:22

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Speakin' the truth here
Great bullshit comic! I hope anyone here who views this as a positive comic for their anti-whatever message realizes that public schooling is a 'socialist' message. So is public protection (police). As is a protected food source. My only hope is that they cuss at every lightened streetlight as "bah, socialism!" and clean water, "bah!" etc. Anyone here saying "thanks for this comic!" realizes that we already live in a positive socialist society. But whatever, it's a society governed by a black guy, has to be the argument. To anyone upset about that, please destroy your gas and electric connections, smash in your public television sets, teach your kids, and rip out your plumbing. 

02/12/2010, 20:57:48

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Sarcasm In A Jar
I know that I, for one, am terrified of what it means for this once-proud nation that if my home ever catches fire, a bunch of filthy communist tax-supported so-called "firefighters" will endanger their lives to save all my stuff.  
 
Don't even get me started on all that disgusting free healthcare that veterans get, just because they've "served their country" or whatever.  Ugh.  Why don't we just break out the hammers and sickles now and quit lying to ourselves? 
 
Oh wait, that's right!  SOME things are okay for the government to provide, but some aren't, and wherever you, personally, decide the line is, that's dirty dirty socialism.  Awesome!  I think I've got it straight now.

02/13/2010, 13:13:56

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Smoothtop
I have an original copy of this comic in "as new" condition.  Any one know of a market?

02/23/2010, 13:11:08

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jon
an excellent read. filthy, uneducated lefties and turncoat republicans might disagree, but that's their problem. most arguments, like the one "speakin' the truth" shares, have been discredited long ago. rothbard wrote perhaps 15 years ago on the twin fallacies of asceticism and indulgence with which statists "tempt" libertarians. but, like i said. the uneducated and the turncoat. you're either ignorant, or you're evil. 
 
this comic reminds me of "the road to serfdom." readers would do well to look it up.

03/10/2010, 08:50:47

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Googler
Hey Smoothtop - Weird capitalista question, given the topic, but I wondered that too. A recent ebay took the comic for close to $300. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=380204000510

03/10/2010, 09:27:32

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mobiustrip
Is it just me or does George Ralston look kind of like Walt Disney?

06/08/2010, 16:45:12

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Simone, Atlanta GA
Mmmm, how did I know this was going to be a "I really don't know what the hell I'm talking about" box? 
I don't really have a view on things either way, so. 
 
Why can't people just be glad they live in a country with more freedoms than most? 
I can't really say I'm a patriot, just that I should remember these things.

07/06/2010, 23:08:22

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Austin Blue
As propaganda goes, this is pretty lame.  It mostly reminds me the straw-villains Ayn Rand sets up in her books; the bad guys say they want equal outcomes, not equal opportunity. No one actually knows anyone who thinks that's a good idea, but it's so scary because it's unreasonable.  
The bad guys here are just looking for personal power, there's no real ideology involved.  In today's terms, they act more like Republicans than leftists: Tell the fools what they want to hear but the money and power goes to those who don't question that most of the money and power goes to those who already have most of the money and power.  
Anyone really worried by "AMERICA UNDER SOCIALISM" should stop watching FoxNews until they get a grip.

07/15/2010, 12:00:28

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Sorrow Soros
Since Austin Blue watches nothing but MSNBC, I'll provide the balance by saying this comic could be now be titled as "Obama's America." 
 
And Austin -- please try to read something other than The Daily Kos or MoveOn.com

07/16/2010, 01:25:05

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Austin Blue
Thanks, SS, that's exactly my point, "Obama's America."  How many times a day do you hear that from your talking heads?  Still, It's got to be better than George Bush's America, except for the wrecked economy he left behind.  
Since you use the name Soros, I guess you must be making millions a year.  You'd have to be to still be doing well in the GB economy; everyone else is getting scraps.  Tell me, who are you going to look down on when the middle-class is gone?  You won't even be able to see that far down.  
Reminds me of a story by Heinlein. In his future America, the rich went from compound to compound in heavily- armoured cars, everyone else was expendable and easily replaced.  Hmmm, War Lord America; not much opportunity there I'll bet.  
Just saying, as a free country, we have a lot more to fear from the right than the left.  Have you noticed the Supreme Court lately?  
Come on, folks, let's get behind public financing of federal and state-wide campaigns and outlaw all gifts to government employees.

07/16/2010, 12:10:11

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Guest
Still such a crazy lefty now Austin?  
 
We have FAR more to fear from the left than the right, the last year is proof of that enough.

03/29/2011, 15:40:47

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Mr. Smart
Blah BLAH BLAH Politics blah BLAH BLAH evil BLAH BLAH BLAH The people BLAH BLAH BLAH oh who really gives a shit 

07/25/2010, 21:55:20

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passby

08/18/2010, 07:16:25

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Kasumi Greyclouds
Using the excuse of "security" as way to control people? Sounds like Patriot Act...

04/29/2011, 20:26:06

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Tony
Why was that socialist guy constantly cleaning his glasses? Pretty funny.

11/29/2011, 15:17:43

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