Content note: Caricature of Hitler as a dazed boxer with swastika-marked gloves. This object is shown as it was published. Why
"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
- Date
- 1942
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- J. P. Seeburg Corporation, Chicago
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Corporation
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- Home front, War and the military
- Event
- World War II
- Regime
- Roosevelt administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Posters, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work)
J. P. Seeburg Corporation, Chicago. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-502 (NAID 513982).
Text on the object
"Boy, Are We Good!" And how! BUT, WE NEED BOTH HANDS TO LICK THE AXIS. [imprint: COPYRIGHT 1942 BY J.P. SEEBURG CORP., CHICAGO]
