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title: 'It''s worth repeating: Really, you shouldn''t!'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/its-worth-repeating-really-you-shouldnt-1944/
description: 'Six-panel comic strip for sailors: a woman drops a handkerchief, a sailor follows her past a nightclub and a $1 rooms sign while onlookers whisper ''Really'
section: Collection
---

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**Content note:** Cartoon strip with a partly dressed dancer and a hospital patient drawn with exaggerated features. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![It's worth repeating: Really, you shouldn't!, 1944 US poster: Six-panel comic strip for sailors](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/its-worth-repeating-really-you-shouldnt-1944.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/its-worth-repeating-really-you-shouldnt-1944.jpg)

# It's worth repeating: Really, you shouldn't!

Six-panel comic strip for sailors: a woman drops a handkerchief, a sailor follows her past a nightclub and a $1 rooms sign while onlookers whisper 'Really, you shouldn't!', and the last panel shows him in a hospital bed under a medical officer's pointing finger. The fear-appeal tell is the final hospital panel with a falling chart.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Fear appeal](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/fear-appeal/)

## Text on the object

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

```
IT'S WORTH REPEATING
REALLY, YOU SHOULDN'T!
REALLY - YOU SHOULDN'T !
REALLY - YOU SHOULDN'T !
ROOMS $1.00 a Night
P-S-S-S-T-- REALLY YOU SHOULDN'T !!
REALLY, YOU SHOULDN'T!
I GUESS - I REALLY SHOULDN'T !!!
[signature: GENE HAZELTON]
NAVMED VP-6 Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, United States Navy
[imprint: U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1944—O—568270]
Prepared in cooperation with the Fleet Service Schools,
United States Naval Repair Base, San Diego, Calif.
```

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