Before Alfred

1944 - US Navy
Me Worry? H--- No! I'm Gonna Join the Navy
1945 Hermosa Beach Ca
Me Worry? H--- No! I'm Gonna Join the Armed Forces by Crackey!
1945-Shamrock Tx
Me Worry? H--- No! I'm Gonna Join the Navy
1945-Harbor Or
Me Worry? H--- No! I'm Gonna Join the WACS, and Quite Milking Cows
1945 - Hermosa Beach Ca
Me Worry? H--- No! I'm Gonna Join the U.S. Navy and fight.........

Patriotic covers produced during the second World War utilizing the Simp character

A popular anti New Deal, anti Franklin Roosevelt celluloid pin, featuring the character known as IMA Simp, a forerunner of MAD Magazine’s Alfred E. Neuman. Mr. Simp was a famous image for a clueless person. The New Deal was a series of programs, public work projects, financial reforms, and regulations enacted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the United States between 1933 and 1938 - Pinback Travels

Alfred E. Neuman is the fictitious mascot and cover boy of the American humor magazine Mad. The character's distinct smiling face, gap-toothed smile, freckles, red hair, protruding ears, and scrawny body dates back to late 19th-century advertisements for painless dentistry, also the origin of his "What, me worry?" motto. The magazine's founder and original editor, Harvey Kurtzman, began using the character in 1954. He was named "Alfred E. Neuman"

 

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