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military recruitment poster. The first illustrated American Uncle Sam isn’t even the hero of his own cartoon. Here’s a look at our national personification, his strange history, and his even ...

When Darnall and Ross’s Uncle Sam was released, I was seventeen years old, a hungry comics obsessive who spent most days after school at the local comic book store in Highland, Indiana.