Chicago Spanking Review Special Series

Humorama Model Spankings

Model Spanking #6 - Blazing Paddle!

The last Humorama model spanking we know about is from the July 1980 issue of Popular Cartoons, exactly one year before the last issue (Humorama ended completely one month after that with the August 1981 issues of Fun House and Popular Jokes). It features two models named "Penny" and "Nickel" (clever) and is called "Blazing Paddle" (obviously a play on the film Blazing Saddles, which had been released six years earlier in 1974 but was certainly still well-remembered at that time). The odd thing is that despite this title and the fact that Penny is bending over rather than being taken over Nickel's knee, there's no paddle to be seen anywhere.

Penny is attractive enough and gets her silly-looking cut-offs taken down to reveal her bare bottom, but overall this layout reminds us of all the awful spanking mags that were around at the time. We were young back then and desperate to find spanking materials, but all we saw in mags like Spanked and Subdued (if we remember the title correctly) were ineptly-posed scenes ordered up by shady businessmen who smelled an opportunity but probably cared less about spanking than the photographers they hired to produce them. The result was bland and unerotic. Perhaps this comparison is being a bit hard on Humorama, which still maintained more class than the hard-core porno outlets, but honestly it wasn't that much more by the late 70s. And indeed that is a trend we saw in the later rivals of Humorama as well, but that is a subject for another day.

The Blazing Paddle! (Strangely with no paddle). From Popular Cartoons, July 1980 (click to increase in size).