Bizarre V-day cards of yesteryear

Further to Mark's bizarre old Valentines post from yesterday: Flickr user Page of Bats has assembled a marvellous and often inexplicable collection of tasteless, gross and weird vintage V-day cards. I can't figure out of some of these were from the likes of MAD magazine, or if they were all created in earnest by clueless card companies.

pageofbats' photostream / Tags / vintagevalentine (via How to Be a Retronaut)

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How did this make it past the censors?
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  What censors?
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Why are they all so violent? (Except the monkey one, that’s just kinda gross.)
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if you just Google “old valentines” on Image Search you will find some very racist ones at the top… Serioulsy
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These are Mark Rydentastic – especially cherubic heart-staker lad!
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