The Comic Strip Series continues with a visit to
For Better or For Worse. We have
The example from the strip has the additional benefit of taking place during the Christmas season.
Collegeboy may have sent me his several years ago or I may have discovered it searching the web. I imagine some of his work at
Bared Affair, which disappeared rather suddenly, has been preserved somewhere and it is of interest even though it's F/F.
O.K. now for the rest of the news. I had actually been catching up a little lately, but yesterday I discovered another cartoon based on
For Better or For Worse in our files. I'd like to present that one next week even though I've already coded something else and will have to change some pages if I do that. And just when I'm opening the mail every 2 or 3 days, which is real progress.
How did that happen, you ask? I am proud of being well organized, with something like 8000 files of new material for CSR being divided into about 400 folders and sub-folders, averaging 20 items per folder. (Not 8000 separate spankings, unfortunately, but a goodly number). You'd think that would keep like items together, but the
For Better or For Worse cartoon was in the "Karstens and Bard" folder, consisting of cartoons
Bawdy Bard sent me about three years ago rather than in the "Comic Strips" main folder.
Same problem with
Doctor Cylon's vast output: I'll have to go through there and search for comic strip-based material. Bottom line is I'm not sure what we'll have next week, but it will be something.
I'm pressed for time, so the
November Golden Age Comics Spanking Search will have to wait for next time or be omitted. There was nothing to report anyway, which brings me to some bad but unsurprising news: I've finished with the last of the romance comics, and not one spanking

! I've reported on this before, but in all there must have been at least 300 romance books and perhaps as many as 500 at one time sitting in my files waiting for me to go through them. This glut was the result of a tremendous effort made, I believe, in early 2016 to conclude the massive
JVJ Project at Digital Comics Museum. I could not possibly keep up with the output, hence I had to carry over hundred of comics from one month to the next, taking up a lot of back-up time and space every few days (I've got it down to about 300 non-romance comics now, which is easier to manage).
But how is this possible? At absolute minimum, this must have been 10,000 pages (300 36-page comics) and was probably more (either more than 300 or some 52-pagers were included). During my peak year when I was searching 1000 pages per day, one spanking of some type would turn up in less than every two days or 2000 pages. Something is terribly wrong here and I can only list a few depressing possibilities:
1. The books were biased toward publishers like Harvey, who didn't favor spanking (at least in their romance titles). But I know there were plenty in there from Quality and Standard, also.
2. The books were published during the "dead zone" from 1956 - 1965. But I know many of them were earlier than that.
3. Lots of these books were reprint. I made some notes so I can help out at The Grand Comics Data Base if I ever have a minute, and I suspect
there were more reprints than I realize. That means that in maybe 40-50 cases, there never was any chance for a spanking since the original book didn't have one.
4. Some other anti-spanking factor, as yet unidentified, is at work here.
Anyway, I'll press on. I'm not looking forward to going through all those western comics books, but I will. And somewhere we
will discover some more Golden Age spankings.
