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WAR CARDS
1930s-40s-50s
FIGHT THE RED MENACE
BUBBLE CARDS (1951)
Published by Bowman Gum, Inc.
1951 -- 48 cards to a set
http://www.skytamer.com/3.1.R.R701-12.htm
The 1951 Bowman Red Menace set was a product of the cold war years, thus it depicts the communist conquests in both Europe and China. The three most popular cars include: #19 Atomic Doom, #23 Ghost City, and #47 War Maker, which depicts a demonic Mao with a green face complimented by the red background on which he is placed. The 1951 Bowman Red Menace set is arguably one of the most well-liked and colorful trading sets of it’s time.
Cards is a presentation of what I would call ‘military’ trading cards released in the United States between 1938 and 2003. The installation consists of over 2500 individual cards configured chronologically. The collection includes sets from the recent Afghanistan campaign (Enduring Freedom (2001)) as well as editions from the Cold War (Fight the Red Menace (1951)), the Korean War (Freedom’s War (1950)) and from World War II (Uncle Sam/Home Defense (1941)). The display begins with the especially gory and highly collectable 1938 series Don’t Let It Happen Here and comes full circle to end with a very different but equally horrific Don’t Let It Happen Here released in 2003.
http://www.siemonallen.org/project_pages/cards.html
FIGHT THE RED MENACE (1930S)
1939
FREEDOM'S WAR
1950-51/TOPPS
Topps issued 2 sets of cards for a total of 203 cards all together.
http://www.topps.com/entertainment/flashback/freedom/freedom.html
From the Swapsale collection.
Early World War II Gum
Cards
(1938-1941)
By Roy Nuhn
As seen in The Antique Shoppe Newspaper, August 2007
Many of the events leading up to our country's involvement in World War II, from the late 1930s to 1941, were dramatically depicted on the newest American fad, gum cards.
Insert cards picturing a variety of historical, fantasy and contemporary events were relatively new in 1939. Even though the gum card's ancestry can be traced back to the 19th century, when cards portraying actors, actresses and sporting heroes were inserted into packets of cigarettes, coffee - and even the earliest chewing gum, they are a modern phenomenon. Gum cards began in 1933 when Blatz Gum issued a Chicago World's Fair group of 32, World Gum, a 48-card set of "Sea Raiders"; and National Chicle, its "Sky Birds" series of 108.
Several different World War II gum card sets were marketed in the years leading up to the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor.
These depicted many of the happenings taking place in Europe, Asia and Africa. Most collectors consider the giant 288-card series, "Horrors of War" by Gum, Inc., to be far and away the very best. First issued in 1938, it remained on store shelves for several years afterward. The colorful illustrations pictured the bloody events taking place around the world as aggressive Japanese, German and Italian military forces pursued their goals of conquest.
The first card in the "Horrors of War" set is a scene of Chinese soldiers attempting to defend their homeland, at the Marco Polo Bridge, against an invading Japanese army attacking from Manchuria. The battles, civilian carnage and brutalities of the Italian invasion of Ethiopia, the Spanish Civil War, the Russo-Japanese confrontation in Manchuria, the Chinese-Japanese War, and the inexorable roll of events in Europe are all beautifully captured. The last card, No. 299, shows the President of Czechoslovakia announcing to his people that their nation no longer exists.
HORRORS OF WAR
Gum Inc. 1938
http://www.dekescollection.net/how.html
Probably the most Famous Gum Card set ever issued. This card set was issued by Gum Inc. starting in 1938. The illustrations are colorful, detailed and gruesome. conceived as a 240 card set about The Chinese-Japanese War, The Ethiopian War and The Spanish Civil War. The set proved so popular that an additional 48 cards were added about Germany and the beginning of World War II. The addition of these 48 cards to the set did not prove as successful as Gum Inc. anticipated and hence the last 24 cards and in particular the last 12 cards have proved very elusive to collectors (Burdick designation R69)
MORE: http://www.the-forum.com/EPHEMERA/r69card.htm
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cd/Haile_Selassie_Card.jpg
http://americanhistory.si.edu/perfectunion/non-flash/immigration_racism.html
UNCLE SAM CARDS
The Uncle Sam series was published by Gum, Inc., in 1941 and consisted of 2 subsets: Uncle Sam (cards 1-96) and Home Defense (cards 97-144). Uncle Sam features various depictions of the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines. The set, which came out before the United States' entry into World War II, focused primarily on preparedness rather than actual events (compare this to the earlier Horrors of War card set from Gum, Inc.). Deke's Collection currently is only missing two cards from the Uncle Sam series, "Blinker Signals" (84) and "The Loop" (91).
MORE: http://www.dekescollection.net/us.html
AMERICA AT WAR
America at War, a set of 48 strip cards marketed in 1942 by W.S. Corp. an active publisher of non-sports cards until it was caught in the wartime paper shortage. Numbers 501 to 548. Scans are representative of the Excellent condition of this set. (Burdick designation R12).
MORE: http://www.the-forum.com/EPHEMERA/warcards.htm
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