Chicago Spanking Review Special Series

The Humorama Spanking Cartoons!

#228 - Party Gown Spanking

From Joker, November 1973. Art by Bill Wenzel (click to increase in size).

After Humorama's classic era (1955-60) was over, there appears to have been a twelve-year period in which only Bill Ward was still selling new cartoons to them. In 1973, however, something changed (for what reason is not known and, since it was almost fifty years ago now, will probably never be known), and new cartoons were printed again along with classic-era reprints. At least thirteen of these were "spankers," one by Bill Ward, nine by Bill Wenzel, and three by a Wenzel-imitator whose name we still don't know. It is the eighth of the nine Wenzel cartoons we're going to see now. (Note: there are a handful of others that may fall into this category, but we'll have to search the few remaining classic-era digests before we know for sure).

Like several of the others, it features a spankee who's nude and perhaps the most attractive of the bunch, adeptly posed OTK. The reason for the spanking? She bought a party gown she didn't need, which is good enough for us. The gag seems to be based on the husband-spanker getting so aroused by her naked body that he's changing his mind about spanking her, which is so-so as humor (we remember a joke along similar lines that was one of the only spanking references we ever saw in Playboy). Probably most spankos will simply ignore the gag and imagine the spanking being administered on her shapely bare bottom.

From Cartoon Fun and Comedy, April 1980. Art by Bill Wenzel (click to increase in size). Posted by the Web-Ed on 10/01/2021.

We also believe the nine Wenzel cartoons from 1973 were each reprinted once. In the case of this one it was seven years later in the April, 1980 issue of Cartoon Fun and Comedy. By that time, plastic printing plates were being used and it really shows: compare the earlier version with its delicate inkwash shadings to this one, where the lighter shades are washed out.