Nowadays the police have an incredible array of equipment including GPS tracking and computerized records, but there was
a time when they didn't even have any method of communication except for the police call box (first used in the U.S.
in 1877!). Then one-way radio communication became possible - headquarters could call the individual patrol cars although
the officers could not answer back (that's one way of eliminating any "backtalk") - and finally, in 1933, two-way
communications had arrived. Police in radio cars patrolled the streets and became the subject of comic strip adventures
in such strips as Calling all Cars" (see
Sandy Kean and the Radio Squad from 1936 for the earliest known spanking in such
comics) and the one we're about to look at today, Radio Patrol, which was discovered by CSR Chief Strip Researcher
Sweetspot.
These guys modify the Department's motto as "To Protect and Spank"
!
The title page from the November 3, 1940 Radio Patrol pretty well sets the scene for us. Pinky and Red should have left the police work to Sgt. Pat instead of endangering themselves, for which they must be punished. © King Features Syndicate.
Sweetspot comments: "Pinky and Red are meddlesome teenagers and amateur crime solvers who are sometimes helpful and at other times, such as in this case, put themselves in danger and hinder the work of the police department."
Sgt. Pat takes Red over his knee while instructing another officer to do likewise with Pinky. © King Features Syndicate.
Sweetspot comments: "Sergeant Pat takes as his own the privilege of spanking the comely Red while delegating Pinky's punishment to his subordinate." [Rank has its privileges, Phil! - Web-Ed]
Mercifully we don't see any details of the Sam/Pinky spanking, which in fact never happens (see later update below), but Red is kicking up her legs as the color of her bottom presumably begins to match her name. November 3, 1940. Scans by Sweetspot. Posted by the Web-Ed on 11/16/2018. © King Features Syndicate.
Sweetspot comments: "Radio Patrol lasted in one form or another from 1933 to 1950 and began as a detective strip in an urban setting at the request of many readers of the Boston Daily Record."
Apologies for what little of the Sam/Pinky spanking is shown here, but there really was no way to leave it out
without making readers wonder what they were missing (not much). This is a rather nice scene with two good panels
showing Red in the OTK position with her fanny raised high and getting it pretty good - a vast improvement over the
many spankings we've looked at in the comics that didn't have any OTK positioning or else were marred by poor
composition and/or small panels. As a matter of fact, we have left out a few details here, such as one of the
hoods getting spanked by the officer, who turns Pinky over to the watchman to make room. And we don't really want
to take too close a look at Red, who's kind of short for an 18-year-old 
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The complete scans are available from SPK Comics; we'll have more to say about SPK when we've gotten through all of Sweetspot's strip discoveries as well as our own.
