Chicago Spanking Review Special Presentation

2011 - A Year of Humorama Spanking Cartoons!

#5 - Birthday Spanking New

Posted by the Web-Ed on 01/28/2011 (click to increase in size).

For the second known Jack O'Brien "spanker" in our Humorama Series, we have a strange combination of ideas: the double-meaning of the word "spanking" plus a birthday used as an excuse to gratify the spanking urge. Each of these often appears alone, but this is the first time we've seen them combined. Of course, it may well be that O'Brien intended this as a straight birthday spanking gag and the editor added the bit about "spanking new". The young lady here seems glad enough to receive a "spanking-new" pearl necklace; how happy she is about being spanked "for her birthday" is an open question.

Good OTK positioning from O'Brien, from whom it would be nice to see some more "spankers", but these are the only ones we know about at present.

From Gaze (October 1957). Posted by the Web-Ed on 10/12/2012 (click to increase in size).

10/12/2012 Update: Here is the cartoon as it first appeared in the October, 1957 issue of Gaze, not normally one of the better sources of spanking cartoons because it emphasized pin-up photos. But you never could tell where editor Abe Goodman would use something, making the spanking 'toon collector's task supremely difficult.

Although the typography is different, the caption is the same, and neither scan (both of which we made) seems to have any advantage over the other. Still, this will help complete everyone's collections and also help us document these cartoons.