Poster World War II Beware the Squander Bug. The Squander Bug was a World War II propaganda character created by the British National Savings Committee to discourage wasteful spending. Originally designed by freelance illustrator Phillip Boydell for press adverts, the character was widely used by other wartime artists in poster campaigns and political cartoons. It is one of the few propaganda campaigns from World War II to be fully documented from the original concept sketches to the finished adverts. This original Poster has been overprinted on the back, Birmingham GAS Department Raid On Germany 27th October 1943, asking for Money for bombs by November 1943 for Raids on Germany, the cost of Bombs is each pound weight costs Ten pence, each Thousand pounds costs 41 -10s 0d and One hundred thousand pounds costs 4,150 ! A truly historical poster framed and glazed showing both sides of the poster 20 inches x 15 inches small pin marks in each corner and minor loss to bottom right hand corner.