Humorama was a part of Martin Goodman's small publishing empire, which also included Marvel (a/k/a Timely, a/k/a Atlas) Comics. Edited during its prime years by his brother Abe, Humorama (1938 - 1981) published first digest-sized and later full-sized magazines of pin-up photos, short text pieces, and cartoons. It's the cartoons that are of greatest interest to us here at CSR, because there were at least 210 of them that featured spanking, far more than in any comparable line of humor digests, and there were a few rival publishers of these kinds of books during their early years, particularly Charlton's Good Humor.
We knew of only one Humorama cover gallery, created as part of an ongoing research project by BIP Comics, but it is incomplete with small scans so we decided to start our own here. The gallery is separated by title; to be taken directly to a particular sub-gallery click on the desired title in the list below, otherwise you can simply scroll down through all of them. How many were published remains unknown, but during the peak years there were 10 or even 12 bi-monthly titles, which comes to 72 issues per year. Around 1961, new cartoon material was largely replaced by reprints of the old cartoons in the files, although some new cartoons were still published, at least in the 1970's. We're still researching this question. Some information about each specific title is presented when available.
Humorama Digests for Sale: Some of these original digests are available for purchase on ebay. Follow this link to find them.
Click on each thumbnail to see the full-sized version. Known spanking issues are marked, but be advised that since we did not have actual copies of all the digests pictured here, some of the "non-spanking" issues could in fact feature spankings.
This gallery opened in February 2012. It will be updated as we obtain new cover scans.
Last Updated 09/08/2015
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