The Saturday Evening Post – November 18, 1944 | WWII War Plant Cover | “The Clock Runs Out on Stalin” | General Mills Back Cover

Original November 18, 1944 issue of The Saturday Evening Post featuring a powerful World War II industrial home-front cover showing American factory workers assembling a massive naval gun inside a wartime production plant. This dramatic scene captures the scale, urgency, and manpower behind America’s WWII manufacturing effort.

Cover headlines include:
• “The Clock Runs Out on Stalin” by Henry C. Cassidy
• “Byron from Brooklyn” by Mona Gardner

Inside you’ll find classic 1940s advertisements and artwork, including:
✅ Full color Grape-Nuts Flakes breakfast ad
✅ Castle Motor Oil ad with winter driving theme
✅ Political and wartime commentary cartoons
✅ Lifestyle and home-front illustrations

The back cover features a large, vivid General Mills advertisement titled “Cure for the ‘Creeps’” showcasing vintage cereal packaging and mid-century marketing graphics — highly desirable to advertising collectors.

This issue is an excellent piece for collectors of:
• WWII homefront and propaganda material
• Industrial & factory artwork
• Vintage food & cereal advertising
• Saturday Evening Post history

📏 Condition

Heavily aged with visible edge wear, chipping along the top and bottom borders, small tears on the right side, surface creasing, and general toning throughout due to age. Despite the wear, it is complete, the binding is holding, and the cover image still displays beautifully.

Ideal as a display piece or reference copy.