The Boop-Boop-a-Doop Girl and the Mammy

In the 1930s, with Betty Boop's popularity soaring, a comic strip based on the actress/singer the animated character was based upon (got that?) was launched...

You can read the almost-complete run of the strip HERE.

However, in presenting the long-lost series, we discovered one of the strips had a racial stereotype we couldn't show today without a warning, so it's shown here...

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This was a weird ongoing strip showing characters used for advertising various products (food/soap/cigars/etc)...

...as performers and the audience in a circus!

In this never-reprinted short from Ultem-Centaur's Star Comics V1N03 (1937), we see Aunt Jemima...

..and the Gold Dust Twins, Goldie and Dusty, advertising mascots for a line of soap products!

Due to the rise of the Civil Rights movement and protests and boycotts involving such stereotypical characters, the product line was discontinued 

I'm not sure about the Black chef.

The only ones I'm familiar with are Uncle Ben (who promoted Converted Rice's rice-based products) and Rastus (who was used in Cream of Wheat ads and packaging)!

Interestingly, Aunt Jemima was sexy enough to warrant a Tijuana Bible strip about her...

...but I don't know if any other Black advertising characters had their own appearances in the infamous format!

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Aunt Jemima, Uncle Ben and Rastus

Blacks in Advertising, Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow