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title: Let's blast 'em Japanazis! Buy war stamps here, now!
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/lets-blast-em-japanazis-buy-war-stamps-1941/
description: War-stamp poster with the cartoon sailor Popeye striding with a drawn-back fist under the headline 'Let's blast 'em Japanazis!'.
section: Collection
---

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**Content note:** Cartoon wartime poster using the coined epithet 'Japanazis' for the enemy, shown as printed. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![Let's blast 'em Japanazis! Buy war stamps here, now!, 1941 US poster: War-stamp poster with the cartoon sailor Popeye](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/lets-blast-em-japanazis-buy-war-stamps-1941.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/lets-blast-em-japanazis-buy-war-stamps-1941.jpg)

# Let's blast 'em Japanazis! Buy war stamps here, now!

War-stamp poster with the cartoon sailor Popeye striding with a drawn-back fist under the headline 'Let's blast 'em Japanazis!', with an inset of a soldier and 'A 25 cent war stamp buys 12 bullets'. The name-calling is the coined word 'Japanazis' for the enemy; the transfer is the familiar comic character lending his strength to the stamp sale.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

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

## Text on the object

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

```
LET'S BLAST 'EM
JAPANAZIS!
Copr. 1929 King Features Syndicate, Inc., World rights reserved.
Buy WAR STAMPS
HERE-NOW!
A 25¢ WAR STAMP
BUYS
12
BULLETS
WAR STAMP COUNCIL—LIQUOR AND WINE INDUSTRIES—COOPERATING WITH U.S. TREASURY DEPT.
[imprint:] [illegible]
```

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