Comic Book Covers

Comic books are made for entertainment purposes. To show us a world with super heroes who protect the good and fight the evil. Yet on one comic book cover I found did not live up to the entertainment. A cover like this, which is made for children, should have never been published.
The “Captain Marvel Adventure’s” comic book cover shows a white man in a super hero outfit holding a cannon. A black man banging the end with a hammer is triggering off the cannon. This picture, itself is disturbing. The white man is drawn to appear as superior with muscles bulging out of his costume tights. The black man is drawn to appear to look more like a monkey than a human being. The cannon is being shot in the direction of Germany, as told by the signs next to the cannon. This is another disturbing factor in the cover as this cover was clearly published during World War II. During a time in which black men and women were still discriminated against and yet the cover shows a black man helping a white man defeat the Germans.
Why did the author of the cover choose to draw this? The author of this cover chose to draw it like this because he wanted to make it seem as if the black man enjoyed helping the white man. He did this by drawing a smile on the black man’s face. The author used propaganda in this cover to help prove a statement that it is ok to help a white man. The author drew the white man superior to the black man. The black man was drawn with a smile on his face to make it seem like he enjoyed helping the white man.
I believe this cover is a counter-act to all the negativity on slavery at the time. The author wanted to prove a point that the black man on the cover was happy to help the white man. I have a problem with this cover because the children who look at this cover grow up to believe that it is ok for a black man to help him/her and there would not be a problem with it. Especially at a time when the nation had to come together during a time like World War II, this cover should have never of been published. The cover should have been drawn with both races as super heroes fighting along side one another. It is unfair to African-Americans who look at this because they too fought in the war and the cover does not justify that at all.