Lots of stuff to get through today, so bear with me. First, CSR passed its 11th Anniversary in April, and while I wasn't up to the kind of celebration I did last year for the 10th, I did make one change to the Home Page effective last week: I got rid of my aerial view of Chicago and replaced it with a "Blast From the Past" feature, in which we revisit a page first posted years ago. I figured everyone has had enough of Chicago (I sure have!), and in fact while I won't be changing the site's name - too much goodwill associated with the name "Chicago Spanking Review" - the Illinois economy is so rotten it's really only a matter of time (in years, probably) before I move out. So no more glamorous publicity for the city that has done so much to drag the entire State of Illinois down with it.
When I'm finished here, I'll do a brief update over on the
"It's CSR's Anniversary" topic.
Next is the
April Search Report, which is a real bummer:
Pages searched: 9291
Total:
507260
Comic Spankings: 2
Not only are there only two spankings, they're both M/M
! Here are the details, which have already been added to the Comics Spanking Data Base:
1.
Big Shot Comics #4 (Columbia Aug. 1940) Jibby Jones strip. M/M. Clown/Jibby, paddle, standing. Did clowns really do this much paddling? And couldn't they have paddled some
females once in a while? (Yes, there's one example of a M/F clown paddling in Comics Gallery 2, but it's not enough).
2.
Big Shot Comics #20 (Columbia Dec. 1941) – Marvelo the Magician, M/M, OTK, hand, Santa Claus/Hood. Marvelo changes two kidnappers into kids, and Santa spanks one of them.
What makes this report so bitter is that I worked extra-hard to get caught up, searching over 9000 pages, and with perhaps half of this being from Romance comics
. I would have expected based on past experience to have turned up two good M/F non-parental spankings from, say, 4500 pages of Romance comics, especially since many of these were early efforts before the "dead zone" when the Comics Code clamped down (1956-65) - in fact, many were issues of
Young Romance, which had two spankings, and
Young Love, which was a sister publication (also produced by Simon & Kirby). I even searched through many issues of
Young Brides, one of which is known to contain a spanking (we've seen the reprinted version from
True Brides Experiences #16) without turning anything up.
What went wrong? A few of these issues probably were published just at the beginning of the "dead zone," and we don't know who was doing the writing. Certainly I found many, many opportunities for some OTK action: bad girls, girls slapping their boyfriends' faces, etc. But it's still disappointing.
Meanwhile I did pass that milestone I mentioned last month: I have now searched over 500,000 pages of Golden Age comics
! Yes,
half a million pages have been scrutinized for spankings, and while I can no longer give an exact number of how many spankings I've found, I believe it must be well over 200 since I was at about 160 when I hit 300,000. Of course, that includes an awful lot of junk, but there have been some good finds too. The GA Search will go on, and it's not the only one, or even the only
comics search I'm doing, but it may be that we're going to have to accept slim pickings from this point on.
The Humorama Search also progressed in April, but very slowly as it is now very hard to find any of the digests at reasonable prices. One digest from the classic period of 1956-60 contained not a single spanking - another huge disappointment
! (At this point, I don't expect to find many
new spankings, but I'd like to at least turn up the first printing of one we're already seen).
Finally, it's on to this week's updates. For links to this week's updates please go to the
Home Page by clicking on "Chicago Spanking Review" at the top of this or any other Forum page.
- Humorama Series #165: The last spanking cartoon by George Morrice that we have discovered is this one, Spanked for Spicy Writing in which public morals require that a young woman selling magazine subscriptions be held accountable for the steamy content of their articles!
- Tim's Humorama Parodies #8: And speaking of accountability, a babysitter must pay the price when one of her charges hits a ball through a neighbor's window. We may hope that enough such babysitter spankings will improve children's behavior everywhere.
Next Week: The Humorama Series returns to one of The Big Six and in fact one of his later efforts as a wife is spanked by her husband for smashing up the family car. This could have been one of
Bill Wenzel's cartoons from the 50's except for one thing: the spanking is on the
bare bottom!
and also glad to see a new Tim drawing 
How great would it be to spank one of your favorite Movie Starlet 
the otk is nice only flaw his legs is spread too far apart! the actress do have a good bottom ripe for spanking 
not one of George Morrice best drawing 
Why is it that women in the Miss Opportunities drawing are more shapely than the ones in spanking drawing 
. perhaps if the spankee would take a good look at the grin on the spanker's face, she would understand, just as all of us do, why the spanker is taking it out on the baby sitter 
Think the the guy dress as G.W MCLintock should have had a coal shovel instead of a slipper also think the woman as Kate could have wore those short bloomers