1948 For Security in Your Future U.S. Savings Bond by George Baker Sad Sack

Date: 1948
Artist: Baker, George
Size (in): 17" x 13"
Size (cm): 43.2 x 33
Condition: A-
Linen backed: No

This vintage original poster was created by noted cartoonist George Baker and issued by the United States Treasury in 1948 to help promote the sale of U.S. Savings Bonds. George Baker is most remembered today as the creator of The Sad Sack comic strip and comic book series. For this poster Baker renders an image of his famous Sad Sack character sitting with a fortune teller who looks into her crystal ball and sees a pot of gold with text that reads for SECURITY in your future! U.S. Savings Bonds.

George Baker’s character The Sad Sack first appears in 1942 in the U.S. Army weekly magazine Yank while Baker was on active duty in the Army. The Sad Sack comic strip, satirizing Army life, quickly became the most popular feature in Yank magazine and enjoyed great popularity and a national following during WWII. After the war Baker continued developing The Sad Sack which was picked up for national newspaper syndication in 1946 and then appeared in comic book form beginning in September 1949. This poster created in 1948 would thus predate the first comic book appearance of The Sad Sack.

This vintage original and rare poster is folded as issued and looks unused with no tape or pinholes and only slight handling wear and a light vertical crease. Overall condition is very good.