Shotwell\'s \"HI-MAC\" Candy Bar Ad - 1940\'s - with cartoon art by Milt Youngren... For Sale

Hi-Mac Candy Bar ad...\"For Candy Eating Pleasure Buy \"Hi-Mac\" Every Time...Excellent, original ad trimmed from the pages of \"Picture Parade\" insert magazine in the Philadelphia Inquirer newspaper.
I don\'t know the exact date of the issue that this ad appeared in, but it\'s definitely in the mid to late 1940\'s.
The magazine inserts and newspapers were purchased at a local estate sale. Condition overall of newspapers was very poor, so I rescued and saved the ads and articles that I could.The ad measures3 7/8\" x 12\". There are numerous smaller ads on the reverse side for a variety of products.
The cartoon art in both of these ads was done by famousdog artist and illustrator Morgan Dennis.
His extensivework was always interesting and first class.
Enjoy this 70+ year old ad.
I\'ll place the ad in a plastic sleeve and add a piece of white foam board for stability. Mailing by USPS First Class in a bubble envelope.
I\'ll mail same day, or next day after PayPal payment is received.

Following is some information on the excellentcartoonist and illustratorwhose work makes this ad special

Milton Dewey “Milt” Youngren (1899 - 1969)

Born in Baltimore, Maryland \"Milt\" was the sixth of eight siblings. He graduated from West Division High School. He attended the State Teachers College in Milwaukee, the Wisconsin School оf Fine Arts, and the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. During World War I, he served for 25 months with Company D, 107th Engineers, 32nd Division. Eighteen months were spent overseas with six months on the front in the Alsace, Chateau Thierry, Oise-Aisne, Soissons, and Meuse-Argonne sectors; and eight months with the Third Army of Occupation on Rhine. He was a member of the American Legion’s Disabled Veterans of World War I.

In 1921 he began at the Chicago Tribune as an assistant art manager, and western art director of Liberty (a weekly Tribune publication). He also was the Tribune’s want ad cartoonist. American Newspaper Comics (2012) said he produced the Sunday Tribune panel, The Last Word on Etiquette, from November 9 to December 7, 1924.

He was on the faculty of the National Academy of Art, from 1925 to 1929, and contributed gag cartoons to various national publications, and created the Sunday feature, Rambling Through the Want Ads, as well as Want Ad Wanda, and Wow! Ain’t Life Sweet?. For Editors’ Feature Service he produced Caesar Bonaparte Smythe from December 1926 to July 16, 1927. In 1928 he produced a three-column block cartoon called ‘Cholly, the Classified Kid,’ to be used on classified pages, for King Features Syndicate.

He was also an associate with the Swan-McComb Studio and the R. J. Grauman Studio, Chicago, as staff cartoonist, from 1934 to 1940. He produced the panel Fair Exchange from 1937 to 1939.

For the Chicago Tribune Comic Book he drew Lew Loyal from October 13, 1940 to October 31, 1943.

He was the creator of humorous ideas and drawings for the Hallmark Greeting Card Company after 1951, and the inventor and designer of Squeezem, Wheelzafun, DoFunee devices.

In the 1960s, his cartoons appeared on the back of Kool-Aid
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