As I remarked last week, I hope and believe everyone will be pleased to see the Humorama Series return once again. Before I had to interrupt it for this year's Super-Spanking Summer we had done three new cartoons, so I believe that leaves us with ten more in the files and we'll see one each month, probably the final update for the month. I will try to have something else to go along with each new cartoon, perhaps some of the many altered versions of cartoons we've already seen or else something unrelated from
Doctor Cylon.
So where are we, Humorama-wise? (By which I mean, when will we finally have all the spanking cartoons in our possession and have solved all the important mysteries surrounding their publication). There are only six digests (out of about 300) remaining from the critical 1955-1960 period when most of the "spankers" first appeared that I have never owned and which I know exist. (Two issues of
Romp, two of
Gee-Whiz and five of
Joker by rights
should have appeared in 1960 given their publication schedules in 1959, but 1960 was a tumultuous year at Humorama and I am going to assume they were never published unless they actually turn up). And there are still a larger number of Humorama mags from the 60s and 70s that I haven't been able to get a hold of, and some of these could contain unknown spankers although if any of these exist there number must be small. They probably contain the "missing" reprints of the known spanking cartoons (most of the 1955-60 cartoons seem to have been reprinted three times during the 1961-1981 period). About Ward and Wenzel's spanking cartoons of the 60s and 70s I'll have a little more to say in October.
So when will I finally get my hands on the six remaining digests at least? I don't know! The strange fact is that the demand for these books is high (much higher than for 1960's
Playboys, for instance) while the supply is limited, and they're now going for much higher prices than I had to pay 10 years ago when I was picking them up sometimes for $2 apiece! Since I can't imagine today's millennials having any interest in magazines that were published forty years before they were born, I must assume that there are a number of old guys (like us
) who are still captivated by Humorama (and the Wolf Books - I've received a couple of series inquiries asking for my expertise on these). There is no way I can compete with people willing to pay $25 or $30 for a single magazine, although I'm glad they're around when I find one and need to resell it, therefore my Humorama research has pretty much been at a standstill for the past couple of years. (The fact that I don't have the time to buy and resell these things any more works against us, too.)
But how much longer can this go on? I'm in good health apart from being exhausted and overworked, so maybe I can outlive some of the other collectors and eventually get my hands on these things, say in another ten years. Until I do, we won't be able to "close the book" on Humorama but we will be able to enjoy the remaining new cartoons in my possession plus a ton of other Humorama-related stuff, including some spanking scenes posed with live models!
at lease it going out with a BANG 
which are the only discoveries I've made in the Archie line these past couple of years. And let's hope I'm able to get copies of all those books while we're all still around to enjoy any X/F spankings they might have.
