Tin Hats Wartime Daily (Bell Syndicate, Inc., 1940s).

Tin Hats Wartime Daily Comics Panel Undated Original Art (Bell Syndicate, Inc., 1940s).
An American soldier nabs a Japanese.
A superior demands: "Wait! You've captured one of their M.P.'s! Throw him back, before you bring aid an' comfort to the enemy!"

Tin Hats Wartime Daily Comic Strip Panel Original Art dated 2-25-43 (Bell Syndicate, Inc., 1943).
"Aw, relax, Sarge! Break down an' admit it's a very cute gag!"

Stanton gained youthful momentum with the 1942-44 run of Tin Hats as a morale-booster feature.
His dedication to the craft led to formal art-schooling, complicated by a 1947-66 affiliation with the bondage-erotica publisher Irving Klaw.
Comics scholar Ger Apeldoorn cinched the connection in 2013 between Tin Hats and Stanton's notorious S&M cartoons of the midcentury.
The signature matches between the far-removed genres.
Tin Hats' comparative sophistication invites consideration of Stanton as a teenage prodigy.
In terms of subject-matter, Tin Hats bears a kinship to the World War II documentarylike cartoons of Bill Mauldin, and to Milton Caniff's sustained show of humorous respect for foot-soldiers in Male Call.

1. Ink and crayon over graphite on pebble-grain Coquille board.
Image area, 7.25" x 8".
Moderately toned and in Very Good condition, considering a wrinkled area at top.
2. Ink and Conte crayon on coquille board.
Image area of 6.5" x 7.5".
Light toning, marginal glue residue on the board. In Very Good condition.