Joe Palooka fought VD in World War II
Paul Terry battled booze in World War I (before Mighty Mouse)
Frank Mack became a cartoonist for Ripley after the war.
The film festival that the National Library of Medicine put on a few weeks ago was covered in today's New York Times (November 21, 2006), Historians Resurrect ‘Cartoon Medicine’ for a New Generation, By AMANDA SCHAFFER
The images above are from the National Museum of Health and Medicine's collection, but the National Library of Medicine also has posters by cartoonists from World War II and later.
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