Missed Opportunities in Humorama

[butch46163@yahoo.com]

The Film Fun womman is in the right position for the paddle! but I don`t think that guy want to spank his sexy nurse.

[hugob00m]

Here's a slightly altered version of the WAC cartoon.

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Here's a slightly altered version of the WAC cartoon.

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I like this one better - thanks, B00m!

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O.K., for our third special for CSR old-timers, I've got something that's, well, mildly interesting. Of course, since this one is for Willjohn what I'd love to have is a previously-undiscovered spanking from an Australian source, but I couldn't find one. (Years ago there was a site called Spank Oz, but it's been gone a long time and I don't remember seeing any spankings from an Australian source there although there could have been some I didn't bother to save).

What I did find is not even a scene that's close to a spanking, but a relatively-unknown (to American readers, anyway) Australian comic strip that is at the moment one big missed opportunity. By that I mean that Devil Doone was the kind of strip where you might logically expect to find a good M/F spanking scene: it was an adventure strip with an ex-military lead character who was tough enough and masculine enough that you knew if he encountered some spoiled brat in her 20s or 30s he wouldn't hesitate to take her over his knee. Before talking more about the strip, let's see an example:


From Cartoon Fun and Comedy (January 1977). Written by Ron Carson Gold and drawn by Hart Amos.

As we tell from just this one page, Devil Doone is the kind of guy you'd want to get to the "bottom" of a suspicious death. And as a matter of fact, I can't state with any certainty that Doone did not get to the bottom of a bad girl at some point during the strip's long run (1945 to at least 1971). It first appeared in Man Junior, but was popular enough to get its own comic book shortly after (published in Australia by K. G. Murray). I found it reprinted in a surprising source: Humorama's full-sized magazines! Why did Humorama reprint the strip there?

Well, Humorama had occasionally printed comics before, the one I remember being Basil Wolverton's version of Popeye, Powerhouse Pepper. This went' back to the 50s but Powerhouse was also sometimes reprinted in the later magazines as well. This could have been done to save money, or possibly to stave off obscenity charges (I've gone into some of the legal questions of obscenity under American law elsewhere and the subject is too lengthy to delve into here). Anyway, the only source I've even found for Devil Doone is the Humorama magazines, and so far no spankings, but if I ever do find digital scans of the comic books, I will certainly go through them.

[willjohn]

Ron Carson-Gold aka Ron Carson. I had to look him up. An Australian author who specialized in Westerns. I am not familiar with his work. Seems he was born in 1913 and died in 1972. Sorry, I cannot be of more help.

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Ron Carson-Gold aka Ron Carson. I had to look him up. An Australian author who specialized in Westerns. I am not familiar with his work. Seems he was born in 1913 and died in 1972. Sorry, I cannot be of more help.

No problem, Willjohn. My hope was to do something special for CSR old-timers, but it was very difficult finding suitable material and of course I couldn't get to everyone. Australia, being a continent as well as a country, is bound to be somewhat isolated in certain ways from the rest of the world, especially in the pre-internet era. There were some Australian comics, but as they weren't generally exported to America (a few seem to have made it to Great Britain, our common mother country) they aren't very well known today. And that's a pity, because it looks like Devil Doone could hold its own with American adventure strips we've seen like Johnny Hazard or Captain Easy.

[willjohn]

One of the most popular Australian cartoonists of my childhood was Leonard Lawson. He had a successful comic called the "Masked Avenger" which was also a western. However, he was best known for being convicted of rape and murder. Nasty piece of work. Died in prison.

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Here are two items that didn't make the cut during our recent Rivals of Humorama Series. They're not completely devoid of interest, but not quite good enough. Both are from SPK. The first appears to be a post-spanking scene, but is absolutely baffling:


From Adam Vol. 3 #11 (1959). Art by Bob Tupper.

O.K., we've got the girl running away with a sore bottom while the guy is seated on a sofa - could be he just spanked her. But his expression just doesn't fit, while someone (the editor?) put in a caption that's hard to interpret. Are they saying he should have spanked her with kid gloves on to avoid hurting her "feelings" (meaning hurting her posterior) - who can say?

Bob Tupper was around for a long time. This cartoon dates from 1959, and I remember seeing his work in some of the magazines I've researched from the 70s, but I don't recall any spankings (or I would have posted them).

The second is no mystery, but it's very weak:


From Zip Vol. 15 No. 27 (1971). This could be Humorama's Zip as the timing would be about right (remember there was another mag with the same title, but it was earlier than this), and if so then it isn't a "Rival" but the matter isn't worth worrying about. The artist is unknown.

The "gag" here is that the man pinched a woman he thought was an airline stewardess, but has to apologize when he saw it wasn't. And that's it from the "Rival" publications for now, although I do have more Missed Opportunities from Humorama itself still in the files, including a few "pinchers".

One actual "spanker" that I didn't post featured a father spanking the baby-sitter - no way did she look eighteen, so it's not going to appear in these pages but you can find it at SPK if you want.

[butch46163@yahoo.com]

The First one does look like a angry wife holding her burning bottom after a spanking! he spanked her way too hard don`t know if the guy pinched or patted the rear of the woman he thought was a Air Hostess Good find

[willjohn]

Whoever the girl was in the first picture it looks like she got a spanking without asking for one.

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One sub-genre of the "Behind in Jeopardy" is of course the pinched bottom. Not as good as a spanking, but sometimes we get stinging effect lines or some nice rubbing.

First up: the boss pinches more than pennies as this unfortunate secretary finds out in a cartoon by George Hess:


From Breezy (April 1957). Art by George Hess.

Then from another, more familiar George, George Morrice, a different secretary is also "feeling the pinch":


From Popular Jokes (Feb. 1967). Art by George Morrice.

[butch46163@yahoo.com]

The bottom of both women is made to be spanked ! Great drawing

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I believe both of these came from SPK. The first is certainly a missed opportunity as a secretary with a pillow strapped to her behind should certainly have been spanked, not just sitting on the lap of a boss with bony knees - how lame!


Art by Dave Farmer.


Art by Bob Tupper, whom we saw in a recent post above in a peculiar post-spanking(?) cartoon. This one is believed to have come from either Stag or Male.

I can't recall anything about Dave Farmer, but Bob Tupper was certainly around as a cartoonist for several decades. This cartoon is almost a variation of the "Bend Over the Files" genre, and it's also a lot like the old "Bend Over, get a Swat" routine although Tupper really seems to have shied away from ever depicting an actual swat. In place of a paddle, this poor secretary gets poked in the behind with a mop handle.

[butch46163@yahoo.com]

The secretary with a pillow strapped to her bottom should have been a after spanking gag !! boney knees maybe the secretary jumping after the janitor`s mop touches her rear is still sore from a spanking she got early Great finds!!!

[willjohn]

The "secretary" who gets poked with the mop reminds me of a gag where a woman given too much work says "Why don't you stick a broom up my arse and I'll sweep the floor as I go!"

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Our first example is from Jack O'Brien, and sort of resembles one of his we saw not too long ago (I couldn't put my finger on it just now but it was a "behind in jeopardy" gag involving archery) in that it's a two-panel piece placed along the bottoms of two facing pages:


From Fun #8 (1956)

Her behind is definitely in jeopardy from that horn!

And speaking of horns, if you're going to take the bull by the horns, be sure not to turn around and bend over the way this girl did:


The cover of the October 1943 issue of Gayety.

Finally we have a nautical scene (and we've seen some spankings in that kind of setting as well) in which instead of "hard astern" it's hard on the stern of this young lady. I don't know if "Just Jill" was supposed to be a regular comic strip as this is the only episode I remember seeing, but we should remember that Humorama did sometimes feature comic strips such as Powerhouse Pepper, Devil Doone, and Pussycat.


A nice pratfall from Laugh Riot (December 1963, an actual Humorama publication).

[butch46163@yahoo.com]

The Pratt fall is ok ! not a fan of sharp pointy object damaging the skin of a female bottom ! women should be spanked or paddle not cut or sliced!

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The Pratt fall is ok ! not a fan of sharp pointy object damaging the skin of a female bottom ! women should be spanked or paddle not cut or sliced!

Agreed, Butch! I don't understand why in comics so many paddles had a tack sticking out of them or so many sharp horns were used. I try to imagine that only the blunter portion of the bull/ram's head would have made contact.

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Four scenes now that take place in an office environment, beginning with this one from the April 1953 issue of Laugh Riot:


The boss admires his secretary's rear echelon. Art by Doug Bennett.

Our next boss goes a little further and revives that old "pat on the back" gag:

From Nifty (December 1957, artist unknown)

Perhaps wary of executing another "pat on the back" routine, Art Lutner tries to substitute "standing pat" but ends up with nothing more than a peeved secretary:

From Fun House Comedy (September 1968).

And finally it's our old pal, Nifty Nick, who's being (or giving) a pain in the ass to his secretary:

From Nifty (November 1952, art by Gerald Green).