Chicago Spanking Review

True Brides Experiences #16

From True Brides Experiences #16 (February 1956). © Harvey. Enhanced by Spiritworks Studio. Posted by the Web-Ed on 06/24/2010.

The last of "The Seven Spankings" (comic-book spankings which were known to a small group of us back in the 70's) is probably also the least - the Harvey romance comic True Brides Experiences #16 (February 1956). (Note: we're temporarily skipping The Saint #5 since we can't find our copy). Even now, little is known about the creative personnel involved with this issue, and the spanking itself is rather ho-hum compared with the other six. The positioning is somewhat awkward, and the bride's parents are critical of the husband instead of cheering him on as they should.

Here is the issue's cover. As with Campus Loves #5, this was the last issue. They should have had more spankings early in the run - preferably every issue! That might have sold enough copies to keep these titles going.

Notice that this is the only one of the Seven to have the Comics Code Seal of Approval on the cover (upper right-hand corner) since it is the only one published after the Code's inception in 1954. We can only conclude that because spanking was both commonly practiced and generally accepted during the 50's, the Code's administrator did not see it as sexually deviant the way Wertham did. For more about this, see the discussion in Frontier Romances #1.

09/24/2010 update: Here's a little more from this comic, which we think is also due to Spiritworks. As you can see, the emotional tone is all wrong, leaving us somewhat dissatisfied. The wife is resentful and at least in the panels we have, does not come around to a different point of view. Of course, we don't have the entire story, so perhaps she did learn her lesson after all. If we find any more, we'll add it here.