Chicago Spanking Review

Crimes by Women #14

Crimes by Women #14 (August, probably 1950). © Fox. Posted by the Web-Ed on 07/16/2010.

We begin a new series on spankings from a rather recently created (we think) website, SpankingPanels.com. The first three of these were new to us, and as far as we know, new to the web - original discoveries of SpankingPanels.com. A number of websites have featured comic-book spankings, including most obviously this one, but SpankingPanels is rather unique - they are exclusively dedicated to X/F comic spankings, and feature an elaborate rating system that almost defies description. You really have to see it for yourself, and we recommend you do so.

Now let's take a look at the first of these new spankings, in Crimes by Women #14, from August of 1950 (we're not completely certain of the year, but 1950 is most likely as the series was known to have begun in 1948). Judging the book by its cover, it would seem to be a lurid crime comic of the sort decried by Fredric Wertham in Seduction of the Innocent (more on Wertham here). We'd expect to encounter plenty of bad women like the ones seen here breaking out of prison, but not necessarily getting spankings although they certainly deserve them. As it happens, the spanking in this issue is only an illustration of an old law that allows a man to chastise his wife!

Here's the entire page which gives "Facts about Crime".

And here's the spanking panel by itself, referencing the law that forbids a man from using a stick bigger (meaning thicker) than the thumb. Strangely, the unknown artist drew the "stick" as an umbrella. Of course, being modern, enlightened people, we think this law is an inhumane relic of a bygone era - it should say that a wife may be given no more than eighteen strokes of a rattan cane no more than 3/8" thick!