Barbarella is probably remembered mainly in this country as a wretchedly awful movie with Jane Fonda and John Phillip Law (1968). However, it actually originated as a French comic by Jean-Claude Forest six years earlier in 1962, making it one of the earliest "adult" comics. It was reprinted in Heavy Metal in 1978, but what we see here appears to have come from a German-language reprint, year and source unknown. [An English-language version of this panel is available at Chross' Art Gallery].
It's not Barbarella herself we see spanked here, much as she deserved it for her loose morals, but another female character we don't recognize (Barbarella is pictured in the foreground). Whoever she is, the OTK positioning is good and her spanking by a distinguished-looking older gentleman is more than satisfactory!
Posted by the Web-Ed on 11/12/2010.
