[Andrew999]

The Russian on the front cover - Protiv Dobooshenya - is a quote from Lenin and translates as 'Question Everything' or perhaps in a revolutionary context - 'Resist Everything' or more prosaically, 'Rise Up!' Lenin used it in challenge to the bourgeoisie but the quote also implies the concept of continuous struggle – the revolution never has an end-point as such but daily struggle against oppression brings us closer and closer to a virtuous world.

It comes from his writings of 1903-04 when Lenin was writing in support of the first revolutionary uprising. How odd to find this on the cover of a Three Stooges comic from 1954 during the McCarthyite era! Were Kubert and Maurer closet supporters of those blacklisted under McCarthy – perhaps sending a message of solidarity?

Link to the book: The Three Stooges 6