and this one is exceptional for reasons we'll see shortly.
Cover of Lois Lane #132 (July 1973, Web-Ed's collection). Art by Bob Oskner (unusually moody for him). © DC Comics, Inc.
A boy is hospitalized with partial paralysis, so Zatanna is asked if she can get the boy to smile, which it is believed would help his morale. He proves a tough audience though, and despite her real magic powers, Zatanna fails to get a smile from the boy. However, he has a trick of his own in mind, and has rigged a stool to break as soon as Zatanna sits on it!
© DC Comics, Inc.
Zatanna lands right on her - well, we all know what a pratfall is - and Matty is so pleased he actually claps his hands with glee!
Not only has his morale improved, but his paralysis is gone. If only this had been a spanking, he's really have something to clap about! And the best part is that Zatanna is trying to rub the smarting away, just as if she'd been spanked! Many of us aficionados just love to see some after-the-spanking rubbing! Here's a closer look at the panel in isolation.
Story by Cary Bates; art by Art Saaf and Vince Colletta. © DC Comics, Inc.
This was near the end of the line for Lois Lane as a separate title. Though somewhat better than two other low-selling Superman-related titles, Supergirl and Jimmy Olsen, it was combined with them into Superman Family, the three characters rotating as the lead feature. We have all the issues, and there's nothing else of interest with Zatanna - in fact, we can't even remember now if she continued as a back-up feature for the last five issues of Lois Lane.
Zatanna has remained a part of the DC Universe all these years, always remaining eminently spankable in our view. See Spankable Superheroines over on the main site for a nice shot of Zatanna in spanking position. And if our fortunes ever improve, we have a few commission ideas involving Zatanna that we might some day be able to feature on CSR.
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