Content note: Caricatures of Axis leaders as grotesque gamblers, with swastika and rising-sun armbands. This object is shown as it was published. Why
Look out, boys... They're loaded!
Corporate-sponsored cartoon sheet: three caricatured Axis figures kneel over a gambling game and recoil as a giant hand in a star-spangled sleeve marked 'US' rolls two crate-sized dice labelled 'WAR' and 'PRODUCTION'. The Axis figures are drawn as grotesque gamblers (name-calling), and the US hand stands for output of war goods (transfer). The caption quote is 'Look Out, Boys... They're Loaded!'
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Philco Corporation (cartoon by Sanders)
- 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
- War and the military, Economy and finance, Home front
- 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)
Philco Corporation. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-966 (NAID 514473).
Text on the object
WAR PRODUCTION US [signature: DRAWN FOR PHILCO BY SANDERS] [imprint: Copyright 1941 - Philco Corporation] "Look Out, Boys . . . They're Loaded!"
