From the Kerry Drake comic strip we have an example of what we call "the elegant spanking": upper-class, well-dressed people engaging in our favorite pastime. The dialogue here is more than a little forced: "You don't need a flesh-peddler, but a flesh-paddler!" It seems almost clever, until you think about it. Why would she need a flesh-peddler? She's not in the white-slavery or baby-selling business, after all (we hope and presume). So the line is merely a set-up to get the word "paddler" in there somehow. But shortcomings aside, it's still a comic-strip spanking, which means that in some fundamental way, it's good!

We really goofed when we first posted this. To start with, we got the name of the strip wrong - it's Kerry Drake, not Terry Drake! No wonder we couldn't out find anything about it. Fortunately, an alert reader, Jim, decided to help us out. Here's some of what he had to say:

"There were actually several spankings or threats in that series. One stand-out was one involving the main character's brother named LEFTY DRAKE (he is a private detective while his brother is a Police detective) is in a park and this young woman comes riding on a horse and the horse gets spooked by something and bucks her off. She starts to beat the horse and Lefty comes to protect the horse and the woman starts cussing him Lefty then takes the woman (named Bootsie Belmont) over to a bench and gives her a spanking."

Posted 10/05/2008; updated 10/31/2008