World War II by Beth Davis

My Little Fuhreeerrrr...I'm sorry.

WWII: Superman cleans up

Another super quick sketch, reproducing a panel from the Siegel/Shuster comic "What If Superman Ended the War?"  It featured Superman whooping wholesale Nazi ass, and then scooping up Hitler and Stalin and dropping them off at a meeting of the League of Nations to answer for their crimes.

WWII: Hitler's Head Explodes by Justin Zyduck

This is not actually a reference to Inglorious Basterds, but rather one of my all-time favorite video games: the NES classic Bionic Commando. If you are unfamiliar with that game, and specifically its ending, let me drop a little education on you.

The game, as originally released in Japan, dealt with a neo-Nazi group seeking to bring Hitler back from the dead to complete a doomsday weapon. During the English translation process, Nintendo of America--somewhat notorious for censoring anything that might be considered offensive for the U.S. market--removed all explicit references to Nazism, calling the enemies "Badds" and replacing swastikas with a falcon-like emblem.

NOA, however, apparently did not vet the game's ending, or else they'd surely have made alterations to the following game elements:

• Although Hitler is never named--rechristened "Master-D" for the translation--his character model is unmistakably Hitler.
• Hitler/Master-D calls you a "damn fool," which was strong language for the family-friendly NES.
• When you beat the final boss by firing a bazooka into the cockpit of a helicopter, you are treated to an intensely graphic portrayal of a man's skull bursting apart in a bloody explosion.
  

I must admit: I had fun on this one.

(If you're interested, see the 20th century's most hated man explode in black and white.)

WWII: Captain America #1, Josh Lynch

This was the other concept I was developing for the Romantic  Kirby cover.  This WWII theme gave me the perfect opportunity to revisit the concept.