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title: '"Boy, Are We Good!" And how! But, we need both hands to lick the Axis'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/boy-are-we-good-both-hands-axis-1942/
description: 'Sponsor-issued war-effort sheet: a boxer seen from behind raises both gloves while a dazed opponent with a toothbrush moustache and swastika-marked gloves'
section: Collection
---

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**Content note:** Caricature of Hitler as a dazed boxer with swastika-marked gloves. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[!["Boy, Are We Good!" And how! But, we need both hands to lick the Axis, 1942 US poster: Sponsor-issued war-effort sheet](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/boy-are-we-good-both-hands-axis-1942.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/boy-are-we-good-both-hands-axis-1942.jpg)

# "Boy, Are We Good!" And how! But, we need both hands to lick the Axis

Sponsor-issued war-effort sheet: a boxer seen from behind raises both gloves while a dazed opponent with a toothbrush moustache and swastika-marked gloves staggers beside him, with a photographer and crowd in the foreground. The caption turns the confident headline into a call for full effort ('we need both hands'). The enemy is drawn as a ridiculed caricature, the name-calling technique.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Name-calling](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/name-calling/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
"Boy, Are We Good!"
And how!
BUT, WE NEED
BOTH HANDS TO
LICK THE AXIS.
[imprint: COPYRIGHT 1942 BY J.P. SEEBURG CORP., CHICAGO]
```

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