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Hi web-ed,

I have to agree with Butch here. If she had said that to me, she would have been over my lap with her head and her panties down and her bare bottom up before you could say naughty girl . Phil

Adding to threats and missed opportunities in the newspaper comics that have a hint of erotic overtone.
July 27, 1949. Evidently the idea of being spanked like a 'little girl' doesn't appeal to Franni. "Spank me all you weesh" Now that's what we like to hear. Unfortunately, as far as I know and I followed the storyline through to the end, Bruce never lights up Franni's fanny (Although I like to think that at some point in their lives he took her up on her generous offer).
July 24, 1949 Bruce Gentry - Ray Bailey, a former assistant to Milton Caniff, created this aviation strip for the Robert Hall Syndicate on March 25, 1945. This was one of a number of aviation strips that sprung up during WWII. The art was uniformly excellent, but on the writing side Bailey couldn't compete with the likes of Crane, Robbin or Caniff. As a general synopsis of the strip we find Gentry starting a small airline in South America, "they ply the Andes" and Bruce soon finds himself, as a flying troubleshooter, always competing against powerful and unethical competitors.

Nice Find Bruce ought to be more like Smilin Jack and give the lady the spanking she deserved

Thanks, Phil - I just didn't have time to add any more of your missed opportunities myself this week. I'll try for next week, but getting Brenda Starr right is the most important item on my agenda.

Caniff's influence on Bailey is pretty evident, but then he influenced a lot of other artists as well.

You really have to love the line, "Afterwards spank me all you weesh!"

Another good spanking threat discovered by Chief Strip Researcher Phil S. is this one from Rip Kirby:


Rip Kirby, March 3, 1972. Scan by Phil S. edited by Web-Ed. © King Features Syndicate

Rip Kirby was a private eye somewhat in the mold of Kerry Drake, but perhaps a little less physical in his approach to crime-solving. He threatens to get physical with Miss Steele here, though: "I'd love to put you over my knee and wallop you so hard you wouldn't go near a horse for a month!"

The writer, Fred Dickinson, was presumably a non-spanker, for we true spankos know that even a good spanking doesn't leave the poor spankee sore for a month! (It's nice if she can still feel it a little the next day, though. ) Artist John Prentice gives her an interesting expression, suggesting she's a little worried that Rip might just carry out his threat.

Nice Find!! sound a little bit like the threat the Phantom made when dealing with The Sky Band only he carried it out THANKS

'He threatens to get physical with Miss Steele here, though: "I'd love to put you over my knee and wallop you so hard you wouldn't go near a horse for a month!" ' - Web Ed

This comment got me wondering what I had on "file" involving horses and spanking: http://www.chicagospankingreview.org/co ... ing_1.html
This is an identical pose but different frame for a, can we say, 'revisioned' look at the Lefty Drake spanks Bootsie Belmont spanking. I place it here because her misbehavior involved abusing her horse. Although the young woman's father says his daughter is "too big to spank" he makes her ride in order that the horse can spank her by proxy on his behalf. Perhaps by "too big to spank" he meant that he was unable to handle the girl in a punishment situation for one reason or another so he came up with the horse does the spanking idea.

Good horse-related stuff here, Phil - thanks! And you did nail down the year of the Kerry Drake/Bootsie Belmont spanking (1970). Do you have a better scan of the strip from Nov. 23, which I thought (it was hard to read) was the date the spanking took place?

I'm not going to get into the history of The Gumps, unless Phil S. finds a spanking in it some time in the future, but here's a spanking threat he found already:


The Gumps, December 12, 1933. Scan by Sweetspot; edited by the Web-Ed. © Chicago Tribune Syndicate

I have the publication date of the spanking as November 25, 1970. This is a very clear clip from November 26, 1970. I should go back and see if I can get a better clip of the spanking itself. Another "guardian" who is grateful that our hero has taken it upon himself to spank their adult female descendant.

Good spanking too bad the artist didn`t give her a more rounder bottom also the spanker only got four fingers THANKS

Bootsie Belmont was indeed such a great spanking in the series. It showed quite alot of dialog following the spanking and how she was spanked. i read the series because of that spanking. Bootsie was not spanked again , but she did figure in several stories after this one. Thanks for sharing and have a great day.
Jim

Thanks for all the additional work on Kerry Drake, Phil - you can be sure I'll add whatever you find to the existing page.

We've been doing a Brenda Starr mini-series over on the main site, and along with his other discoveries Chief Strip Researcher Phil S. found this very nice threat. It occurred in 1957, some years after the current last-known spanking in 1951. This is a very nice, warm, paternal scene with Brenda's editor Atwell Livwright saying, "If I weren't so relieved at having you back safe, young lady, I'd take you across my knee and give you a good, old-fashioned spanking!"

He even calls her "Young lady"! Female spankos will find themselves identifying strongly with Brenda's position here, and wishing that position had gone a step further to actual over-the-knee.


September 29, 1957. Story and art by Dale Messick. Scan by Sweetspot; edits by Web-Ed. © Chicago Tribune Syndicate


It will be recalled by old-timers that in the very early days of this board, JimC. and I put together a poll asking which comic-strip heroine CSR readers would most like to see spanked. The winner? Brenda Starr! Of course she did get spanked once, but perhaps there's another scene out there with our girl reporter getting some of her wildness tamed.

The Holy Grail of Christmas Presents according to Ralphie in the movie A Christmas Story is An official Red Ryder Carbine-Action 200-Shot Range Model Air Rifle (from Daisy! With a compass in the stock?) For readers of CSR the Holy Grail of Christmas presents this year would more likely be the posting of a M/F OTK spanking scene from the comic strip Red Ryder. Red certainly had plenty of spanking provocation throughout the years from any number of young women. Unfortunately for us Red Ryder lived by some self-imposed (and fictitious) code of the west that forbid him from spanking a woman - we prefer the more probably genuine code of the west that G.W. McClintock and many other heroes of western lore lived under. The only spankings I have found in this strip are two or three involving a pre-teenage girl.
Fred Harman's Red Ryder was first distributed on November 6, 1938 by NEA Service and continued into the late 1960s. The action in Red Ryder takes place in the 1890s. Red Ryder owns a ranch near Rimrock, Colorado. Besides Red other major characters are Red's aunt called Duchess who keeps the ranch going and the Navajo orphan he has adopted Little Beaver. Often Red must leave the ranch to come to the aid of his friend Sheriff Newt or for some other peacekeeping reason.
January 13, 1944. The adult daughter of a famous archeologist is resistant to the simple and honest ways of the west and immediately sees Red as a rube whose offered hospitality will only further inconvenience her. Little Beaver suggests that instead of Red's kindness, "Better she be seat-um spanked" I spent many a Sunday evening with my family watching Bonanza on NBC. An ongoing theme in many of the episodes was that a female and male pair of crooks would jointly try to swindle the Cartwright's in one way or another. I noted that in the end the male member of this con-artist team would end up dead or headed to prison while the pretty female would inevitably simply be placed on a stagecoach headed east so that that she could get off to a fresh-start in life . That same kind of justice comes to Yvette in the spring of 1959. Duchess offers to "whale th' tar out of her" but this wholly justified threat only causes Yvette to speed up the schedule of the swindle.

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Mentions of "Brenda Starr" are okay, but I flinched when you began to talk about "Red Ryder." Whoever was the creator/artist of that strip was one of my most hated writers. I hope and pray that you never go there again, in this forum.

The S.O.B. who wrote "Red Ryder" was a fan of seeing males getting spanked. I remember with loathing seeing an old Red Ryder strip in which the eponymous hero apprehends a pair of crooks -- a man and a woman -- and, instead of putting the crooked female over his knee, Ryder spanks the man!

In another edition, Red Ryder's young Injun pal, Little Beaver, gets spanked over the knee of some white guy. Aside from the fact that today this would not be tolerated on racial grounds, at the time I was outraged because it was a man spanking a young man. Truly, the writer of that strip was a maza fargin basser! I'm so glad that comic is no longer with us.

Cheers,
Dan

"Ooola done it she confessed" "You slugged Neetah..."
"I never hit a dame in my life... but when I thinka of all th' trouble you've caused me. I think it's time I started!"
October 31, 1947 "Let go of me you big whale" "You'll strike Ooola only over our bodies!" "And now young lady..."
November 1, 1947 November 3, 1947 [Note: the Sunday strip of November 2, 1947 was not part of the continuity of the daily strip story]

November 7, 1947

More interesting material here, Phil.

I think the writer on Red Ryder was also the artist, Fred Harman. From Dan's report, I can only say he was seriously misguided on the subject of spanking, and I'm glad I've never run into any of his M/M stuff in the course of my researches.

Alley Oop seems to have had great caution when it came to spanking. We have the one scene in which King Wur spanks Princess Zee, but no others are known. And both examples here feature characters who leap to the potential spankee's defense: the three guys in Oola's case, and then Oola herself when Oop is ready to spank the blonde girl (who apparently deserves it for lying). It does seem, though, that Oop spanks Oola off-panel: we have the dialogue "Maybe that'll learn you..." and Oola appears to be rubbing her behind with her left hand. Also, there are more "pain stars" around the the third guy's head (the right-most one) than around the other two, so perhaps some of them were supposed to be associated with Oola's backside. So why not show the actual spanking?

Perhaps Hamlin felt that a man spanking a woman was somehow "hitting" her (although acceptable as a means of parental discipline), which would be exactly the flawed thinking of Superman Family editor Mort Weisinger that kept us from getting more than that one half-hearted spanking of Lois Lane by a Superman robot during the Silver Age.

Al Capp scripted a number of spankings in Li'l Abner that we've seen over on the main site (and he may have done even more in the strip's later period - I was forced to stop buying the reprint collections years ago because I couldn't afford them any more). His spankings were generally meant to be humorous, but he also had many characters "getting the boot" one way or the other (The Kigmies were a race that loved to be kicked where they sat down) and I have to believe Capp took greater delight in such scenes than he did in spankings.

Phil Sweetspot has found two boot-to-the-behind scenes of interest to us, one featuring the lazy Moonbeam McSwine and the second with Daisy Mae Scragg. Let's take a look at them now as part of Li'l Abnerpalooza. (Scans by Phil S.; minor edits by Web-Ed).

First we have Moonbeam McSwine being auctioned off in Ragbagdad while a despairing Daisy Mae is left behind:

June 7, 1951 © United Feature Syndicate

The slave dealer sends Moonbeam off with a good swift kick. Capp might get in trouble if he were alive in today's PC world, but in 1951 it was still o.k. to use for a story idea the existence of slavery in even the modern Muslim world. Notice also Capp's use of irony as the slave dealer refers to the buyer's "love [that] surpasseth all understanding" when he offers to throw his aged father into bondage as part of the deal.

Seven years later, Daisy Mae receives a good kick from Mammy Yokum - except it isn't part of the strip's continuity!

December 17, 1958. Mammy's kick results in some very large pain stars - ouch! © United Feature Syndicate

Interestingly, Capp drew the booted beauty's booty merely to capture the reader's attention! Was this an unintentional confession that someone giving poor Daisy a swift kick was what he himself most wanted to see? Or was it simply that he thought the readers would enjoy giving a beautiful girl a kick, never knowing that surely a greater number would have enjoyed taking her over their knees? Capp was a talented man, but not always a very nice one,

Of course we'd rather see a spanking, but Daisy Mae is so nicely bent over here (as a result of the kick rather than a prelude to it, we'd say) that I couldn't resist cutting Mammy out of the drawing and rotating it so that it looked as if perhaps Daisy has just received a tremendous swat with a paddle after bending well over !



As a matter of fact, next week we're going to see Daisy Mae drawn in a position very much like this one, panties down and bottom bared, and colored by Doctor Cylon!

I remember Li'l Abner from my childhood. I remember that his parents were tiny but he was huge and his young brother "Tiny" was even bigger.

Al Capp was a great satirist, unfortunately he fell under the spell of Richard Nixon and lost a lot of his punch.