Rallying young men to enlist, this poster shows a predatory and barbaric animal arriving on the shores of America. A precursor to the film villain King Kong, the gorilla wears a German spiked helmet and brandishes a bloody club, while savagely abducting a helpless, voluptuous woman.
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