Chicago Spanking Review - The Brave and the Bold and the Spoiled and the Spanked

From The Brave and the Bold #64 (1966). Author's collection. © DC Comics Inc. Story by Bob Haney and art by Win Mortimer.

A spoiled society playgirl, endangering innocent lives with her shenanigans, gets herself spanked by no less an authority figure than the Batman himself. No whining from any readers about "sexism" this time -- you just don't argue with the caped crusader. Also this comic was fourteen years earlier than the Thing/Moondragon episode, when political correctness had thankfully not yet taken root. (The kiss in the first panel actually occurs some time after the spanking - natch!).

Jan-Feb. 2010 Updates: JimC let us know it was Funbun and UASketcher who together did this animated version of the page above. We discovered that Funbun often alters spanking artwork to bare the bottom (something we have to regard, in some sense, as an improvement), while UASketcher (as we already knew) specializes in animations, frequently using Funbun's bare-bottom alterations as a starting point. We'll see more from these two in the future, and we certainly like what they did here. As Batman commented on the next page (not shown), "Marcia won't forget this lesson so soon!"

When we first created this page way back when, we didn't have a decent scanner, so we used a very simple digital camera instead. Deciding it was time to revamp the picture, we were going to use a modern scanner on the original Brave and the Bold comic when we remembered that DC had reprinted it ten years later in Super-Team Family, and we also had that issue in our collection, so in the interest of completeness we decided to scan that one instead. Notice that the book was recolored, so Marcia's dress is white instead of green and the photographer's suit is olive-green instead of orange-brown. Why was it recolored? We don't know, but it may that the colored reproductions of the original art were no longer in the files after ten years, and the new colorist either did not know what the original colors were or thought he/she could do better. He may have been right.

From Super-Team Family #5 (July 1976). Author's collection. © DC Comics Inc.

Finally, we recently chanced upon an uncolored version, so we're including that as well. The source is unidentified, but it may be a scan of the original art. It's really fun looking at all these, isn't it? This is probably the best spanking Batman ever gave in an actual comic book. Catwoman was spanked once (by Alfred, the butler!) but it occurred off-screen, dagnabbit!

Batman spanking Playgirl from unknown source

Batman spanking Playgirl enhanced by J. R. Williams

One more, found at Bat-Blog.com: J. R. Williams altered and recolored the original, adding the Stan Lee-style "SPANK!" sound effect. Nice work, accentuating the characteristics that have made one of the more popular comic book spanking panels. That so many artists have had a go at this one testifies to how good the raw spanking material is here. In fact, we think it's our personal favorite among superhero spankings that actually took place in a comic book.

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