The second spanking in Kerry Drake (as of now the first chronologically) took place in 1952. It's rather unusual in that we would have expected the spankings in this strip to be administered by either Kerry or his brother Lefty in keeping with their "leading man" status, but this is a mother/daughter scene. And F/F scenes were the least common of the four orientations to appear during comics' Golden Age, but then the strips were always different from the books. This one was discovered by CSR Chief Strip Researcher Sweetspot.
Kerry Drake, July 22, 1952. From a Muncie, Indiana newspaper. Scan by Sweetspot.
The spanking panel. Teen-age bobby-soxers did indeed get spankings in the 1950's 
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Scan by Sweetspot. Posted by the Web-Ed on 06/01/2018.
We're not sure of the exact reason for the spanking - something about chasing after celebrities - but
it's obviously parental discipline. Maternal spankings are certainly not our favorite, and there is no
OTK position, but at least it's a good, firm swat. Bobby-soxers like Cricket were probably less wild,
all things considered, than their "flapper" mothers of thirty years before, but that very fact probably
worked against them, for those former flappers well understood that teen-age girls and young women still
needed plenty of guidance and discipline in the form of spankings 
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