Hiya Web-ed:
Thanks for posting those new updates. Guess you were going for a spankings page that is 100 per cent NON-OTK.
Ya know, I'm with you in admiration of those good old spanking cartoons that we used to be able to view routinely in the comics. No such luck, these days... although I do kind of notice a slight lessening of antagonism by the fem-libbers.
Over the years, you and I have seen many, many spanking cartoons in the mainstream media. Every single one that shows an adult female getting spanked is welcome. But the spanking toon that MOST makes my crotch tingle is the one that shows us The Phantom giving Queen Pera her first spanking, followed by Count Jorge of her own staff, giving her her SECOND spanking! Man, that toon is hot! I cannot help admiring it, even today after all these years.
Of course the main reason is that thing that
you talked about in your essay: It makes us feel good, to see a haughty woman who's in a superior position (in this case, the queen) get taken down a peg and be humiliated, preferably in front of witnesses. In the "Queen Pera" strip we can see that she is not only in a superior position, she is also so self-absorbed that she thinks she can get any man she wants, from wherever in the world.
As you have pointed out, this particular story of
The Phantom was first published in 1946. I think it bore the title "Queen Pera the Perfect."
Now then: It must be a favorite story to a lot of people, because we know that, years after the 1946 original was published, someone in some other country (Asia? Australia? Europe? Dunno) had the entire strip painstakingly COPIED, then published it again. I came by a photocopy of that duplicate sometime in the 1980s, and then I posted it here, to your webpage. But the copied strip was in black & white, whereas the original was in full color.
We know this, because someone on your webpage later posted a full-color copy of the original panel, from 1946, showing Count Jorge spanking the queen. That panel is larger in scope than my b&w copy, and shows more detail.
And yes, thanks to you and your marvelous website, we have also seen a Scandinavian comic that actually DUPLICATES the Phantom/Queen Pera strip, giving us the same story but with the panels re-drawn in a different style, and with speech balloons in the language of that country. (Sweden? Denmark? Iceland??)
The reason I mention any of this, is because I am still wondering if you -- or any of your fellow spankos -- have copies of the original 1946 comic in full color, showing the two panels of
The Phantom spanking the queen. Since the panel with Count Jorge, posted above, is available... then I fancy that the two Phantom/Pera panels must ALSO be available. Somewhere.
If so, I'd love to get them into my collection. As you know, I once drew a riff on that
The Phantom story, substituting my own creation, Captain Woodshed, in place of that phantom fella. It would be great, if I could lay these old eyes onto a clear copy of those immortal original panels from the original "Queen Pera the Perfect."
Oh, by the way: The first time I saw the Queen Pera story, I suspected it was a rip-off of the Superman strip that shows Evad spanking Queen Arda. But in your invaluable Website, you let us know that it was the other way around. The Phantom's queen-spanking was published some months
before the Queen Arda story. Must have been a popular plot in the 1940s.
Cheers,
Dan