......... Chicago Spanking Review - Secretary Spanking #A7

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#27 - Secretary Spanking #A7

The cover of Hello Buddies #71 (September 1955). Artist unknown (click to increase in size).

Recently, we saw what is for now the earliest known secretary spanking, Secretary Spanking #A6 from Hello Buddies #39. We now move forward a few years to Hello Buddies #71 (September 1955) to what with its discovery becomes the chronological fourth secretary spanking, after A6, A5, and Humorama's Secretary Spanking #26 (A4's date is still unknown but probably fits in somewhere with these other early examples). We're going to designate it as "A7" and it bears a very strong resemblance to the last of these as we will see shortly (both were drawn by Bill Wenzel).

Hello Buddies by this time looks very much like the Humorama digests which were just entering their "classic" period (1955-60). In fact, there are other cartoonists in this issue besides Wenzel who also sold to Humorama, including Frank Beaven, Bo Brown, Al Kaufman, and Lowell Hoppes.

page 3 with the spanking from hello buddies #71

Page 3 of Hello Buddies #71 (September 1955). The spanking is in a featured position, but because this is the title page it's only allotted 1/3 of the available space (click to increase in size).

Recently, we saw what is for now the earliest known secretary spanking, Secretary Spanking #A6 from Hello Buddies #39. We now move forward a few years to Hello Buddies #71 (September 1955) to what with its discovery becomes the chronological fourth secretary spanking, after A6, A5 (A4's date is still unknown), and Humorama's Secretary Spanking #26. It bears a very strong resemblance to the last of these as we will see shortly (both were drawn by Bill Wenzel).

Hello Buddies by this time looks very much like the Humorama digests, which were just entering their "classic" period (1955-60). In fact, there are other cartoonists in this issue beside Wenzel who also sold to Humorama, including Frank Beaven, Bo Brown, Al Kaufman, and Lowell Hoppes.

boss spanks secretary in hello buddies #71

Another secretary pays the usual penalty for screwing up at the office. Art by Bill Wenzel. Discovered and posted by the Web-Ed on 12/01/2023 (click to increase in size).

As we mentioned above, this cartoon looks very much like Humorama's Secretary Spanking #26:

It appeared only two months after the one in Humorama's Comedy (by cover dates), and the actual publication dates may have been even closer together. It was less groundbreaking than the earlier cartoon, then, by its later printing and by Wenzel's use in the earlier one of the ink wash technique that helped to characterize Humorama's classic period. Nonetheless, it's a good cartoon that continued the practice of using the business office as a setting for humorous escapades while expanding those escapades to include turning one's secretary OTK if she deserved it - or if the boss just wanted to do it. wink

So why did Wenzel send this cartoon to Leon Harvey (of Harvey Publications)? We think that Abe Goodman over at Humorama was a spanko himself and was so pleased with Wenzel's Secretary Spanking (#26) that Wenzel, followed by other artists, realized that Goodman would buy more "spankers" - so that's what they drew. Wenzel at least decided to try sending one to Harvey as well. Did Harvey publish any more after this? It's hard to say because we don't have anything like a complete collection to reference; we belive that Hello Buddies continued until 1960 so more spankers in its pages are definitely possible. Harvey had some other humor books but they were mainly aimed at armed forces personnel and we believe they pretty much ended with World War II although Army and Navy Fun Parade did go on a while longer.

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