Missed Opportunities in Humorama

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Two cartoons now from 1955 that feature hairbrushes, which used to be sold door-to-door amazing as that sounds today.

The first of these is by Martin Filchock, whom we've seen before several times, I think most recently with a sexual innuendo cartoon on this very thread earlier this year. He also did a fly-swatter spanking over on the main site. The woman in this one is wearing either lingerie or a two-piece bathing suit that showcases her rear end, and she should have been spanked by her husband with the hairbrush the salesman left on the floor in his haste to depart:


From Nifty (September 1955).

In the second, the sales person is female, and decides to use her female assets to keep the customer from closing his door. This gag is based around the old "foot in the door" technique, which could have been easily refuted by taking the hairbrush and applying it to that portion of her anatomy holding the door open:


From Nifty (September 1955). The artist's signature is illegible. "Buller" brushes is of course a play on Fuller Brushes, the brand that was sold door-to-door.

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Both drawings are good ! the first one even though he made his wife stand in the corner love the humiliation of a grown woman being punish with corner time I think he should have turn her over his lap for 200 smacks of the hairbrush for cheating with the Brush salesman the female brush salesperson is smart to use her behind! guess the guy inside have no choice but to buy a hairbrush Great finds

[willjohn]

The girl selling brushes found that putting her arse in the way of the door closing was more effective than putting her foot in the way.

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I found this first one at SPK, who labeled it as being from Comedy Vol. 6 #35. I guess a lot of collectors do list them that way, but because
Humorama was so inconsistent - and so careless - in the way they numbered things, I prefer to give the month and year as they were listed in the indicia (usually well ahead of the date they hit the newsstands to try to induce the newsdealers to keep them on the stands longer). By my computation, Vol. 6 #35 should have been March 1957 but I can't confirm that date even though I once owned that issue (I didn't always keep track of the volume and issue numbers in the early days of collecting Humorama digests since I didn't use them).

The implication is that the fellow in the wheelchair has been caning the nurse, and good for him if he was! Still, a missed opportunity for sure as we could have had the nurse innocently bending over only to receive a good stroke from the cane. The cartoonist is Louis Priscilla, who seems to have had a bad attitude toward spanking although he did do one non-Humorama secretary "spanker" that I posted in the Humor Gallery some years ago.


From Comedy Vol. 6 #35.

The second one is unfortunately crude, and the scurvy ship's officer has something other than spanking on his mind even though the naked female passenger is bending over :


Original source unknown; the cartoonist is Jack Flynn, whom we have seen in the Humor Gallery.

[willjohn]

The man in the wheelchair has a good excuse for having the cane. The main question I would ask the ship's passenger is how she got her head stuck in the porthole. Surely, she is asking for grief!

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Love the drawing of the nurse not wanting to work for the old guy because of the cane not a fan of the woman head being stuck and the Captain taking sexual advantage of her! better would have been if she was a thief caught trying to break in a cabin only to get stuck and the captain using the opportunity to punish her by giving her a paddling Good finds

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First up is a short little comic about a man subjected to an extreme temptation which he ultimately give in to when a woman bends over slightly. The artist is unknown, but he reminds me a little of Jules Feiffer.


From Mirth (May 1956).

Presumably he pinched her rather than giving her a good swat across her behind, but the last panel, where both of her hands shoot back to rub the affected area, makes me wonder. I suppose we should classify this one as a "Behind in Jeopardy".

Next we have a rather unusual "Sightful Eyeful" from the January 1972 issue of Romp:



Jackie Johnston is a model unfamiliar to me, but if the way she's lying over the edge of the bed doesn't make you think about spanking her, you're in the wrong online magazine! Nice submissive pose, but her expression is a little strange, as if she didn't expect to be photographed just then. Not a "Behind in Jeopardy," but certainly a missed opportunity.

[butch46163@yahoo.com]

Wonder did the guy in the drawing smacked pinched or strike a match stick across the backside of the shapely woman Nice! the beautiful Jackie Johnston looks like her well rounded bottom is in for a good belt spanking ! Excellent finds

[willjohn]

I was wondering if he stuck the live cigarette into her gluteal cleft.

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O.K., this first behind isn't really in jeopardy, although it would be if the event judge or any of those spectators in the front row were equipped with paddles, but this cartoon is still in the general nature of a missed opportunity. The artist is George Wolfe, best known here at CSR for his "Touring Tessie" material in Wham! (this one is from the March 1956 issue of TV Girls and Gags), and the bending over position (far from ideal because the swimmer's knees are bent) combined with a completely bared bottom will certainly suggest spanking to any spanko who views it. And speaking of views, those afore-mentioned spectators must surely appreciate the one they're getting just now:




Second is a cartoon from Bill Wenzel, well known to all of us for his spanking cartoons, that he did for Harvey's Hello Buddies at the same time (July 1959) he was contributing heavily to Humorama's classic period. In this one, a true gentleman offers his seat on what appears to be the New York City subway to the girl in the riding outfit, but the stinging effect lines explain why she declines to sit down just then. Too bad it wasn't because someone had recently spanked her rather than because she's been horseback riding.



I actually had to double-check the date on this one because the style and signature are more characteristic of Wenzel's earlier work, say the 40s or early 50s. Perhaps Harvey reprinted it.


Third, it's back to TV Girls and Gags, this time in May 1957, to see a female factory worker getting no respect from the guy striking a match on her behind. We've seen this gag a few times before - Jefferson Machamer did one of them as I recall - and it's not great although the bending over position is always welcome around here and certainly qualifies as a missed opportunity. The artist is Mel Millar.



Finally, we have another gag we've seen before (from Jack Cole), the trombone slide poking a girl in the butt, this time from the inimitable Bill Ward In the Sept. 1965 issue of Zip (the Humorama title, not the one from Wolf Books):



A classic, and Ward's use of the conte crayon implies he drew this one in the 50s and it was being reprinted in 1965, but of course once again when we see those stinging effect lines we have to wish they'd been caused by something else.

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Each drawing was good! but the one with the woman holding the riding crop caught my attention! seem the reason she decline to sit down is because she was soundly spanked with the riding crop! due by the lines coming from her bottom maybe it was her boss or husband who did the deed Excellent

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Here's another group of five that don't have too much in common except the ones from Humorama. We're close to the end of my stock of these, having only one more extended example from an unusual source that we'll see in November. The first of these may look familiar, and I suppose it's not technically a Missed Opportunity since it was posted under the first "Humorama Spanking Positions" several years ago (follow the link if you want to see them again):


Pat Turner, bending over for us very nicely in the March 1965 issue of Gaze.

And let's see the original, just for nostalgia's sake:

From Joker (April 1959)

I've stared at both of these for some time, and cannot say what the original cameral angle was, but I think the transparent panties look very good on Pat either way.

Stanley Rayon should be easily recognized by now, his trademark being to draw exceptionally sexy women and let the rest of the cartoon pretty much take care of itself. You have to love the spankee-witness's startled expression when the attorney asks her to show the court where she got spanked. The judge and jury look like they'd like to see that portion of her anatomy also.


From "The Flimsey Report" (a play on the notorious Kinsey Report of that era) in Funny Bone. At least I think I've got that right. My notes on this one are incomplete for some reason.

This next one is pure sexual innuendo and is pretty blatant. I think this was often true of the artist, "Virg," whom I remember seeing before doing similar material but no actual "spankers". I can't help wishing it was more focused on spanking, although it's hard to see how it could be given the general situation of a seated female artist with her sketch board.


From Popular Jokes (May 1974), which may have been its first printing. This was the tail end of Humorama's original material, as far as I know, although they trudged on for another seven years doing reprints, which is when I discovered them.

Let's finish up with two from Bill Wenzel, both from that same era although the second actually appeared in Sex to Sexty and not Humorama. They are both truly missed opportunities, as we will see, with the first actually having a lifeguard tell the young woman that she's a "spoiled brat" and perhaps he did climb down and spank her afterwards (we can only hope):


From Popular Cartoons (October 1973, now 51 years ago!).

And here Wenzel re-uses the "losing an election bet" gag, which in an earlier cartoon resulted in the young woman receiving a spanking. This time, she's in a fine position be be paddled, but something else unfortunately seems to be in the offing:


From Super Sex to Sexty #28 (1972, but it must have appeared earlier).

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Think the woman in Court should have been sitting on some pillows as she trying to prove she been spanked!! the other drawing is more sexual than spanking which is good ! and man Pat Turner is in the right position for the paddle on the pert tail Good finds Thanks

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I found this most unusual example of a Rival of Humorama some time ago. It's a title called Candid Tales that was published by Kirby Publishing, who I believe also published the Wolf Books (Nifty, etc. using the name "Dearfield" for some reason) that we've seen many times on CSR. Like the Wolf Books, it was printed in color as we'll see. I don't have exact publication dates, but these examples all come from April 1950 and it may in fact have been a one-shot title since this is the only issue known. The scans are due to a fellow named ComicsCastle, so a tip of the cap to him.

Most of the artists are unidentified, although Bill Wenzel appears in this issue but not in the examples we're going to see.

First, to get the flavor of this magazine, let's look at the cover:


It certainly seems suggestive, although as we'll see the execution is lacking. Let's begin with "Splitting Hares," featuring detectives Sam Schmo (after Dashiel Hammett's Sam Spade) and Seymour Keister (the long-lost cousin of Seymour Butz):



Note the picture of the girl bending over with her "behind in jeopardy" from the not-so-well-aimed darts.

Then we've got more bending over and girl with cami-knickers made from a flour sack, a gag we've seen somewhere before (I believe it was in Humorama):




This was from the "Farmer's Daughter" story mentioned on the cover, which included a strip poker scene, another gag we've seen on this thread. But again, it's badly executed from our point of view with the girl actually winning at cards! At least she gets a boot to the behind:


The art here resembles that of George Wolfe, but we don't think he's the actual artist. This was an obvious missed opportunity for a good spanking!

Finally, young Nurse Quivertum is kind enough to bend over for Doctor Killmore (after Young Doctor Kildare in the 30s, so this was only a little more than ten years later and would have been remembered):


But again, bad execution! The unknown artist isn't that bad technically, but he has no idea how to make a panel like that one sexy. Compare this to any of the "Good Girl" artists of the day and you'll see what we mean, for example to Matt Baker's Skygirl. This is a problem we've seen before, notably with Gerald Green (who was worse than this guy) in the various Wolf Books.

This is the only issue of Candid Tales I've ever seen, and I simply don't have the time to search for more, but maybe something will come to my attention. There was another Kirby title that might be worth looking into as well, but neither of these would be easy to find.

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Good finds like the Private Detective throwing darts at the woman`s bent over bottom!! should have been thinking of something better to do to her