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During World War II, Kin Platt served from 1943-1946 with the Air Transport Command (ATC) of the United States Army Air Force. While stationed in India with the India-China Division (ICD) of ATC he used his drawing talent to create a series of 28 cartoons called Broad Views. These cartoons appeared in the weekly newspaper, Hump Express, published by ICD's Public Relations section. Hump Express reported war news and other stories of interest related to ICD's operations in the China-Burma-India (CBI) Theater.
Prior to his Army service in World War II, Kin Platt had been a writer for many famous entertainers and publications. In the mid-1930s he wrote radio comedy for George Burns, Jack Benny, the comedy team of Stoopnagle and Budd, and The National Biscuit Comedy Hour of 1936. Later in the 1930s, he wrote for Disney and Walter Lantz theatrical cartoons, and he broke into comic books with humor stories featuring the character "Happy" in Better Comics. Platt went on to draw such features as "Captain Future" in Better's Startling Comics; "The Mask," featuring a district attorney turned costumed crimefighter, in Exciting Comics; and writer Richard Hughes' Doc Savage-like "Doc Strange," in Thrilling Comics. Following the war, Platt continued his career as a comic book writer/artist.
BROAD VIEWS featured beautiful women, often in various stages of undress, usually discussing some situation involving a GI. The cartoons appeared in most issues of the newspaper, gracing a bottom corner of the back page.
