Chicago Spanking Review

Me Tarzan, You Spankee

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Here we have the only spanking we know about that actually came from the Tarzan comic strip. Tarzan, like Conan, had started in prose and only later moved to the comics format. The exact date of this strip is unknown, but Bob Lubbers had taken over the artistic reigns, so we believe it to be from the period 1950 - 1960. Lubbers worked on a lot of other strips over a long career, although no other spankings of his come to mind.

We found this at Chross' Forum, where the topic had turned to comic book spankings. Some things to like about it are: (1) Tarzan is enjoying himself; (2) he spanks her despite her protests; (3) good OTK positioning.

Art by Bob Lubbers. © United Feature Syndicate. Posted by the Web-Ed on 07/09/2010.

08/24/2018 update: When we first presented this one in 2010 we were only able to put the date somewhere between 1950 and 1960. Thanks to Sweetspot we can now positively identify the date as November 2, 1953, and we have some of his new scans of the spanking panel, the rest of the strip that day, and the complete follow-up the next day that identifies the spankee as Betty Cole. Also, it appears the episode was reprinted at an unknown future date with the politically-correct pretense that the spanking never took place, which is pure B.S. Here are Sweetspot's notes on his research:

"Long story short: after our Brazilian friend Andre helped me find the source of the Roy Rogers Double Spanking I reciprocated by telling him the source of an unidentified clip he had that turned out to be the Tarzan spanking from November 2, 1953. Easy enough since it was in your collection. So after identifying it as Tarzan I guess he looks it up here. To speed this up for you I'm including the clips from both the originals of 1953 and how it was altered between then and when they appear at erbzine.com. So at some point, I guess, an editor decided that it was too unbecoming for The King of the Jungle to be spanking a brat! Note that the first altered panel has the added date of 11/25/02, is numbered 4441 and credits www.comics.com. The next panel is labeled 11/25/02, is numbered 4442 and also carries a credit to www.comics.com."

Tarzan spanks Betty Cole, 11/02/1953. © United Feature Syndicate (click to increase in size).

Tarzan "prepares" to spank Betty Cole, reprint date unknown. Note that the stinging effect lines are gone, but they left the arcs indicating the motion of Tarzan's hand in place - oops! © United Feature Syndicate (click to increase in size).

Tarzan the day after the spanking, 11/03/1953. © United Feature Syndicate (click to increase in size).

Tarzan the day after the spanking, reprint date unknown (original date 11/03/1953). © United Feature Syndicate (click to increase in size). Posted by the Web-Ed on 08/24/2018.

The pathetic little SJW's (Social Justice Warriors) who edited the strip when it was reprinted just couldn't accept a man - even an ape-man - spanking a woman, so they had to pretend Tarzan puts her over his knee and then for some reason doesn't follow through. The art belies their pretense, for if it was only an "almost spanking" then why are Betty's buttocks blazing to such an extent she's trying to rub the sting away?

At least we now have the full story including the run-up to the spanking and its immediate aftermath. And the look of pure satisfaction on Tarzan's face in the 11-03 strip after he gave Betty what must have been a "thorough" and "efficient" spanking is priceless - take that, SJW's!