Douglas Airview Magazine1944January-DecemberVolume 11Issues 1-12One Tokio Kid propaganda poster back cover by artist Jack Campbell (Disney Artist) Last appearance made by the character was on the back of this issue in February 1944Published monthly by the Department of Public Relations Douglas Aircraft Company, Inc. Santa Monica, California. Format 8-5/8″ x 11-5/8″ with between 30 – 50 pages.About Tokio Kid and wartime propaganda ( I do not condone this imagery. It is racist, it is wrong, but it is also important to the history of our country that we acknowledge it )"Tokio kid" posters, began in 1942, the same year that Tojo Hideki (the likeness of Tokio Kid) became Prime Minister of Japan. "The Tokio Kid” was created as part of the company's drive to reduce tool breakage and waste, the Kid appears on posters that show broken drills, cracked cogwheels, mixed-up rivets, piles of scrapTwo of the posters were lithographed and distributed to 7,000 Douglas suppliersThe items I sell are vintage. They will have signs of wear. Please carefully examine photos.************All items sold are vintage finds sourced from estate sales and thrift stores in the Hollywood area of Southern California.Your purchase helps me continue to fund my artistic work as a photographer in Hollywood California. It also helps me to feed my increasingly finicky cat who now only wants the most expensive cat food
