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#197 - Wasted Scotch Spanking

Posted by the Web-Ed on 07/02/2010

Here is a Bill Ward spanking that made it to the cover of the August 1970 Joker (probably its second printing). The feeble gag (with questionable pronoun usage) was written by the editor or his assistant: "Tonight we have the dance contest at the club; I just want to be sure you don't sit out any of them!" We know because we recognize the linguistic pattern, which appeared in cartoons drawn by a number of different artists. The OTK positioning isn't bad, and the spankee is wearing a tight-fitting satin dress, which was typical for Ward.

2021 Update: We were later proved to be correct about about the gag and almost certainly about 1970 having been the cartoon's second printing (see below).

Art by Bill Ward. From the November 1962 issue of Comedy. Posted by the Web-Ed on 10/30/2020 (click to increase in size).

2021 Update Continues: Perhaps because this cartoon had only been seen in color, we did not recognize it when we saw it twice again, first during our own Humorama search and second when it was posted by HugoB00m on the forum back in 2017 (see A "Lost" Ward Cartoon?). Realizing that it wasn't new to CSR readers but not realizing that we had already posted it as Humorama Spanking Cartoon #197, in October 2020 we posted it as #222. Having just now realized our mistake, we chose to update #197 (this very page) with what we had presented as #222, leaving #222 free to be transformed into what we had planned as #225. Thus the new #222 actually post-dates #223 and #224 but pre-dates #225-on as it should.   We mention all this so that no one will become confused .

It's a very good example of Ward's spanking cartoons and in style it could easily have come from 1957. In fact it appeared in 1962, which as we pointed out on the forum raises a number of interesing questions, the first one being whether the 1962 appearance was a reprint. We think not, for at this point there are only three digests left from 1955-60 that we haven't seen, all from late in that era, making it unlikely this cartoon would have been reprinted so soon (6 or 7 years was more typical). The second question is whether there are any more Ward non-reprint "spankers" from 1960's Humorama digests, and the jury's still out on that one.

Here's what B00m had to to say about it:

"The lady's bottom is fully covered, but the way her dress drapes, it appears to be made of some thin slinky fabric that would allow her to feel the impact of the spanking. (And allow him to feel the firm curves of her buttocks!) The gag of using expensive alcohol that was intended for drinking as a substitute for antifreeze was used by other cartoonists. I wonder if anyone ever did that? I like this picture. It must've been one of Ward's earlier works. The woman's breasts are big, but not grotesquely so... and her backside definitely looks spankable!"

We don't know if any wives actually used expensive (grain) alcohol as anti-freeze (a spankable offense to be sure), but according to my grandfather, back in the 1930s inexpensive wood alcohol was used that way. The only problem is that it would sometimes ignite, and cars could be seen going down the road with blue flames coming out of their radiators!