Frenzy, "The Magazine for Senile Delinquents" (remember that juvenile deliquency was a big concern in the 1950s) was apparently another MAD-imitator and only the second so far known to have contained a decent M/F spanking (Sick #134 was the first). Its publication history is sketchy to say the least, beginning in April 1958 (issue #1 cover at left), and probably lasting until at least issue #6 since we have some scant notes indicating we discovered a sixth issue while researching it a while back. It was published by Picture Magazines, which as its name would indicate generally seems to have published magazines with photos, but whether they survived the 1950s we don't know.
The personnel listed on the contents page below are mostly pseudonymous, probably because they didn't want to be identified with material this bad. James Stewart Gordon is listed as publisher, and there was a roving editor of Reader's Digest of that name around this time - were they the same man? It would be more interesting to know who the writers and editor were, for someone there did appear to have The Behind in Mind, at least for a little while. Let's go see:
The rather dubious contents page of Frenzy #1 (April 1958).
From "TV Goes Completely Western". The marshal bears a resemblance to Clint Walker, who starred in Cheyenne.
A preliminary item of interest appeared in "TV Goes Completely Western" which in fact did happen around this time as the original dramas of TV's golden age were replaced with ongoing series that could economize by re-using the same sets and characters. This also avoided the need for writers with much originality. Most of these early series were in fact westerns, to be replaced later by one vapid police procedural after another.
In this panel we have, well, a cactus plant sculpted in the shape of a hand with an extended middle finger and the legend "county seat" - somebody seems to have had some deeply-repressed hostility toward one or more persons he'd like to see sit down on that cactus. But it's another section of this "satire" that most concerns us, one that sort of retells the fairy tale "Jack and the Beanstalk" in the manner of a TV Western. It's rather bizarre, but it does have one redeeming feature as we will see.
Artist and writer unknown. Note the reference to Grace Metalious' novel Peyton Place, which was a huge bestseller around this time. It became a TV series years later and was probably the first of the night-time soap-operas, thus initiating a horrible trend!
Jack's mother gets her rear end raised high over his lap for a thorough warming.
Posted by the Web-Ed on 04/07/2023.
At least Jack's mother is supposedly modeled (not too closely) on Jayne Mansfield, so she makes an attractive spankee with her front end draped low and her rear end raised high, although we could certainly have done without the panel just above in which she spanked Jack. Offhand, we cannot recall another role-reversal spanking (in a double sense) like this one although we have seen some other Son/Mother scenes from independent spanking artists. Is she wearing that goofy grin because she and Jack are now rich or because he's spanking her?
