I'm posting this a little early this week as I'm travelling with a sick cat tomorrow to a distant pet hospital and may not have secure internet access.
The Comic Strip Series is back! And would have never left if I'd been able to handle the workload, but enough of that. To give myself a little breathing space, I'm posting a modern strip (which requires less research work), a very nice little piece by the Turkish artist TeMel in which her Kinky Girl character says she's been a very bad girl and...you get the idea. Find it
here.
I actually have a second strip featuring this character that I'd forgotten about, and we'll be seeing it eventually, but for next week I'm going to try my best to get back to
Phil Sweetspot's 
finds. The focus should be on
Winnie Winkle, but don't hold me to it as I'm going to try to take a brief "vacation" and I don't know how much coding time I'm going to have.
Next, let's get to the
August Spanking Search Report. It's short and not very sweet.
August Comics Pages
Pages searched: 2089
Total: 610796
Comic Spankings: 0
Yep, another goose egg, and I can't tell you how tired I am of wading through issue after issue of
Gabby Hayes Western. I always found Western comics a little dull, and in fact for a while there I'd given up on them completely. But because we have seen a few good spankings come out of them and because so many have become available in the past two years I decided to go back to including them in my search. (In fact I know of a Golden Age Timely/Marvel western with a spanking in it, but I really can't afford even the necessary $60 for a low-grade copy right now.) Of course, 2000 pages isn't a very impressive total, but at least I'm slowly catching up now with less than 500 more comics to look at.
With so much else going on, I suppose this isn't the time to talk about
Humorama, but despite everything I'm up against, I've tried to secure some more of the key issues (there's only about 5 or 6 left) as well as some of the later digests from the post-1960 period, and for the most part I simply can't meet the prices these things are going for now. The high prices helped me three and four years ago when I sold off my Humorama collection at a great profit, but now they just mean I can't afford the books any more (with a few exceptions - I sometimes still grab one from the reprint era at a low price). To save time I may have to stop the search altogether.
What that means for
CSR: I still do have something like a dozen unseen Humorama "spankers" in my files, and as soon as we get done with the current Strip Series we should return to Humorama long enough to get these out there for all of you to see even though some Humorama mysteries will still remain to be solved at some future date. Eventually, Humorama collectors are going to die off (now there's a cheery thought)

and assuming I outlive at least some of them, prices should come down. I mean, can you imagine today's' millenial know-nothing kids, the worst-educated generation in American history, caring about old 50's digests with Bettie Page and no full nudity? And then I'll finally get those last 6 issues from the 1955-60 "classic" period and answer the most pressing of the remaining Humorama mysteries.
