Lots of lively responses to this week's updates! I'd like to address a few questions that were raised.
tanner wrote:
Been it seems every possible variation of the secretary spanking theme done, I'd like to see a "role reversal" spanking- where a male employee is spanking his female boss. The story from Life about that initiation spanking was very interesting, but is there any more information about the well-publicized spanked wives club in Sioux City the article mentioned? That would be certainly worth seeing, I am sure.
As to
Secretary Spanking, we're going to see with this week's updates what I believe was the very first one Humorama ever published. And while it may seem that we've exhausted the possible variations, I still have one in the files where the secretary is sent through a spanking machine for her birthday(!), plus about 6 from
Kirk Stiles including some that have never been seen on the web before and at least one with a brand-new gag. No more from
Dan DeCarlo, however, or any with a male employee spanking his female boss

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The Spanked Wives Club in Sioux City was from an old newspaper clipping. I have a little more information about it but no pictures as yet. If I find enough to make it truly interesting, I'll certainly post it.
daneldorado wrote:
Thanks again, for the treats you post here each week. You don't hit a home run each time, but you are maintaining a high batting average...As for the Carrie cartoon, it's amusing enough... but...
I'm glad
Dan brought this up, because it gives me a chance to expound on my editorial philosophy, not at too great a length I hope. It's perfectly true that I can't hit a home run with every individual update or even every week. I wish I could post nothing but never-before-seen, high-quality spankings from various media, especially comics, but that simply isn't possible. Some of the material will have been seen before elsewhere, and some will be
CSR "firsts" (for example some of the comic-book stuff and a few of the Humorama cartoons) of varying quality.
The most exciting finds are probably Humorama cartoons that are both excellent and unknown, and things like a few of the comic-book spankings that I discovered personally, but I have found numerous high-quality items by browsing the internet, and I certainly want to bring them to the attention of
CSR's readers. Then there is what we might call the "second-tier" material, whether I discovered it myself (some of the modern-day comic-book spankings, for example) or found it somewhere. Again, I still feel that
CSR readers might be interested in this stuff, and they could have a difficult or impossible time finding it anywhere else (for example,
The Paddler #2, coming soon, isn't likely to be posted elsewhere since I have one of the few extant copies). If I chose not to post it, readers would be deprived of the opportunity to decide for themselves. But I do have some minimum standards, and if I feel an item is truly terrible I don't post it even though I know
CSR readers will probably never see it.
That brings us to the current
Carrie series. Dan has some misgivings about the "exposure" question (which we've discussed elsewhere at length), and so do I - nor is that the only problem with the strip. Carrie is repeatedly groped in a disturbing manner as I noted in this week's "Four Alarm Spanking" update. And Carrie's 8 spankings have probably been seen before in any case - so why did I post them? Well, for one thing I don't think they've been assembled in one location before (I've also created a complete index which we'll see as part of
Carrie #8 on 12/30). Also, there is still considerable interest in the strip, particularly in the U.K. where they originated. Finally, the spankings themselves, while not great, are "good enough" in my opinion that spankos could reasonably want to see them.
butch wrote:
R.I.P. COMIC WRITER AND ILLUSTRATOR JOE SIMON!!!!
Joe Simon passed away this week. He is best remembered for his partnership with
Jack Kirby. They were
Stan Lee's bosses back when he joined
Timely (later
Atlas and
Marvel) in 1939, and went on to create
Captain America and a bunch of other characters. Although Simon did not do any M/F spankings that I have been able to document (there could certainly be something out there I haven't seen or that by mistake is not attributed to him), he and Kirby did contribute indirectly to the cause of M/F comic-book spanking by creating the Romance genre back in the late 40's. Simon was also the founding editor of
Sick magazine, which had at least one spanking (I had a copy of it once but can't find it now).
As Butch said, R.I.P. Joe!