Joe Shuster's Fetish Art
Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2011 1:31 pm
Have just finished going through Secret Identity: The Fetish Art of Superman's Co-Creator Joe Shuster. I highly recommend this book.
Seems that in the early 50s after Shuster and Siegal had lost the rights to their most famous creation through some lega; shenanigans on the part of DC Comics, Shuster was apparently in a bad financial situation.
So Shuster turned to drawing for something called Nights of Horror, a publication featuring what was then called "perversion"- lots of bondage, whippings, lesbianism, interracial sex(although little nudity or no actual sex shown). And also lots of violence.
What is of interest to us is that there are lots of women getting spanked, either bare, or over skimpy panties. There is also F/M, both spankings and whippings.
An article in USA Today about the book's content spoke of "politically incorrect spankings"(as opposed to "politically correct" ones-whatever they are)?
Another interesting thing is that a lot of the people bear a very striking resemblance to such Superman characters as Clark Kent, Lois Lane, and Jimmy Olsen.
The publication was banned back during the great crackdown on comics and "smut " in the 50s, and is very rare in terms of surviving copies.
Stan Lee writes in an Introduction that while Superman was "positive and morally uplifting" this work of Shuster's "catered to the basest of man's character and morals." Agreed, some of it is pretty brutal in terms of what it depicts, but I think we can agree that spankings are a different matter entirely.
Craig Yoe who edited the book speculates as to whether this work of Shuster's was done out of financial desperation. Or whether it was possible that this sort of material had an appeal to him on its own.
We do know that there were spankings in Superman comics, which may support the latter theory.
On the other hand at this time, spankings of women in the comics and in the movies and TV was accepted and not uncommon, so who knows?
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Seems that in the early 50s after Shuster and Siegal had lost the rights to their most famous creation through some lega; shenanigans on the part of DC Comics, Shuster was apparently in a bad financial situation.
So Shuster turned to drawing for something called Nights of Horror, a publication featuring what was then called "perversion"- lots of bondage, whippings, lesbianism, interracial sex(although little nudity or no actual sex shown). And also lots of violence.
What is of interest to us is that there are lots of women getting spanked, either bare, or over skimpy panties. There is also F/M, both spankings and whippings.
An article in USA Today about the book's content spoke of "politically incorrect spankings"(as opposed to "politically correct" ones-whatever they are)?
Another interesting thing is that a lot of the people bear a very striking resemblance to such Superman characters as Clark Kent, Lois Lane, and Jimmy Olsen.
The publication was banned back during the great crackdown on comics and "smut " in the 50s, and is very rare in terms of surviving copies.
Stan Lee writes in an Introduction that while Superman was "positive and morally uplifting" this work of Shuster's "catered to the basest of man's character and morals." Agreed, some of it is pretty brutal in terms of what it depicts, but I think we can agree that spankings are a different matter entirely.
Craig Yoe who edited the book speculates as to whether this work of Shuster's was done out of financial desperation. Or whether it was possible that this sort of material had an appeal to him on its own.
We do know that there were spankings in Superman comics, which may support the latter theory.
On the other hand at this time, spankings of women in the comics and in the movies and TV was accepted and not uncommon, so who knows?
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