Spanking in the comics spreads over large terrains including all eras, publishers and diverse titles. They reflect society and social convictions and attitudes (at least at the time of publication). It's so very fascinating, and so much can be learned about art, offset printing, romance and how to treat a lady along the way. Superman's Girl Friend..Lois Lane, Smilin' Jack, Pep Comics, Boots And Her Buddies, King Comics and For Lovers Only are a seemingly odd group of bed fellows. What do you think they have in common? Spanking Panels. Unfortunately not in every issue, but in their midst lay that succulent moment when a naughty woman is tamed for her own good. G*D bless those moments as they can make us laugh, make us smirk, or make us nod in approvement. Depending on the artist's intent of course, they can even tease us, stimulate or arouse us. They can also leave us yearning for more, an expansion of the scene, wishing to see more of the intimate act of discipline in all it's glory. I know there are many spanking panels that leave Spankos wishing the hero would lift the spoiled socialite's dress or lower her slacks , but of course, that would be straying too far from the generally innocent times of the Golden Age of comic books (at least so far as the mainstream media is concerned).

Comic books have a life of their own, they possess magic for within those cream to off-white supple pages we find colorful tales and adventures, drama and love. As we admire the artwork, we can begin to learn about the artists and the past lives of the characters they delineated. Comic books offer an education in culture and art for those that can look beyond the boundaries of any single panel. The panel is but a single moment in time (like a photograph), but when we widen our parameters or field of vision, we discover a volume of panels and Splash pages within every single comic. The apparently benign spanking panel can lead us to discover many talented artists like Will Eisner, Matt Baker, Wally Wood, Reed Crandall, Zack Mosley and many other gifted artists and story tellers. This is a special opportunity for Sequential Art Education for those who are new to this form of pop culture. You may even fall in love with an artist's work, not just the spanking panel that lead you to your discovery, but that artist's full body of work. For instance is we can admire Will Eisner's famous spanking splash 'Girls' Dorm' from 1940, we can notice that Eisner was a masterful artist. From his panel compositions to his extraordinary inking style (those gorgeous perfect contrasts), we can then apply that admiration to other Eisner masterpieces like the cover for The Spirit #22 (Quality Comics), and others. That is just an example. Collecting spanking panels can lead us in many directions of discovery, and open our eyes to other genres we may like, in my case Good Girl Art (GGA) for instance. Or some of you may find a connection to Westerns, Jungle or Archies, who knows you may even end up collecting original comic book art (you never know where you'll end up). We can learn that there is a whole team of people whose efforts go into each and every comic book, from the Publishers, Editors, Proofers, Pencilers, Inkers, Paste-Up Artists and Writers. My personal interest is with the artists, those pencilers and inkers.

Comic Book Covers have a special place in the hearts of collectors. Cover's are like giant billboards that make announcements and they attempt to draw us closer, with alluring and colorful imagery designed to catch our attention. Some are far more successful in that effort than others, and the successful ones (whether or not the interior delivers the same) are always in high demand by the comic book marketplace. Spanking covers (with fully grown women) are very rare, but what if the front cover scene was related to the interior story which contains a spanking panel or scene? That truly expands the story greatly, offering us another added moment from the torrid tale. So in addition to a story with a spanking panel (we all love a good story, especially one with a momentous Spanko moment in it) drawn by a remarkable artist, we may get a vivid Splash page, and in some instances a Cover which also ties in or connects with the yarn. If you love beautiful women, comic books are just the place to find them. In every size and shape with every hair color and style you could imagine. They are thrown into every type of situation you can think of portraying the classic damsel in distress or being a classic villainess. They are drawn every which way from realistic, to outlandish, and to cartoonish with their blessed attributes exaggerated for the appeal of the reader. Females can be drawn the way the masses fantasize, with huge boobs and tiny waistlines, short dresses that blow up in the wind, giving us a glimpse of their stockings like Baker's Sky Girl, or The Blonde Phantom for instance. Heroines can swim and chase down Villains with stiletto heels on. The best of the best is when these portrayed suggestive gals find themselves bottom's up for a trip over the lap for an old fashioned appropriate, sensible, sound spanking to be administered by the principal champion. I wish all you collectors triumph in your quests, and would feel satisfied if I could encourage any new collector to enter this amazing comic book hobby.

Comic Books with spanking panels is a off-shoot or branch of collecting Good Girl Art Comics (GGA), and GGA is my area of expertise, and major interest in comic book collecting. "Why collect spanking panels" you may be asking, and "What place do spanking panels have in Comic Fandom?" As we look back within the history of comic books, we find one man to thank for bringing 'spanking' (and 'bondage') into the forum of comic book collecting today, uniting the divine and forever establishing a timeless marriage between the two seemingly different entities. He is American psychiatrist Fredric Wertham, the author of the 1954 book 'Seduction of the Innocent', also known as SOTI. He preposterously asserted that comic books had a major influence on youngsters (as if comics had mind control over them), and the influence was all negative. A U.S. Congressional inquiry into the comic book industry was already underway, and Wertham's book, whose ultimate message was 'censorship' while detailing many examples of what he disapprovingly pointed out as destructive stimulus to the young and developing mind. This hype added much fuel to the anti-comic book fire as the repressed moral majority in The United States were busy pointing their crooked fingers and anything they felt was immoral. This is of course a condensed history of Frederic Werthan and Seduction Of The Innocent, and it's role on the formation of The Comics Code Authority (CCA). This brand of self-censorship within the comic book industry was enough to drive many comic published out of business, thus changing the face of the type of comics that were being published there after.

There were so many guidelines the CCA set into effect, too many in fact to outline here as many are off topic, however noting a few in proper context to Good Girl Art (GGA) is appropriate: 1/. Nudity in any form is prohibited, as is indecent or undue exposure. 2/. Females shall be drawn realistically without exaggeration of any physical qualities. 3/. Suggestive and salacious illustration or suggestive posture is unacceptable. 4/. Illicit sex relations are neither to be hinted at nor portrayed. 5/. Violent love scenes as well as sexual abnormalities are unacceptable. 6/. Seduction and rape shall never be shown or suggested. 7/. Sex perversion or any inference to same is strictly forbidden. 8/. Nudity with meretricious purpose and salacious postures shall not be permitted in the advertising of any product; clothed figures shall never be presented in such a way as to be offensive or contrary to good taste or morals.

As ludicrous as these repressive rules sound now, those were the days. I suppose that is why the 1960s gave birth to the Hippie counterculture which rallied against political conservatism and perceived social repression by the far Right. In short a revolution in Free Speech and Freedom of Expression was underway, and we would never look back. Thank goodness.

Comic Book collecting hobbyists are a funny and peculiar breed, for which I am one, part and parcel of the collective. Since Fredric Wertham had taken so much time, and exhausted so much effort in pointing out and highlighting some of the finest examples of Golden Age Comic Book Art (he even offered a bibliography in the first printing of his book before they were recalled and the bibliography removed fearing lawsuits), it became the mission of comic historians and collectors to further value these specific highlighted comic books, and place them on a pedestal as an ongoing tribute to the greatness the comic books had once been before censorship contributed to their demise (of many great publishers) and reformation from the mid 1950s to the late 1970s. Comic books were never the same again. Therefore the most violent and the most lurid have become the most coveted and the most sought after today, and comics with artists that had contributed to the splendid works from that era are also relentlessly hunted and pursued. SOTI has had a reverse effect of comic book collectors now. It is a despised and ridiculed book, and artists, panels, events that it negatively showcased, are positively revered now.

Do not think for a moment I am straying off of the topic of spanking panels for I'm not. The background above is vital in understanding the evolution of the comic book collecting hobby, and exactly where 'spanking panels' find a place into the equation. In Fredric Wertham's book, Seduction Of The Innocent (S.O.T.I.), Page #180 (Illo #34) there is a caption reading, "Erotic spanking in a Western comic book." The pictured art was from a comic titled 'Frontier Romances,' from the inaugural issue, published by Avon with a cover date of November-December, 1949. Wertham insinuates that this comic was being meant for children which is an half truth, and therefore harmful to them in some way (should they even remotely have seen it). Romance comics were just taking off in 1949, and the trend would continue for many years. These were targeting the demographic of older teen and female 'readers.' Of course these were available to anyone on the new stands, but this was hardly adult reading material, and what kid would, after all, be interested in boring melodramatic girls' love stories? Wertham was half correct in his label. I do not think the panel is 'Erotic' but do find it 'Romantic.' And I believe anyone in society who read it would NOT have even stopped at that panel, let alone become a Spanko because of it, nor would it have any negative influence on them. But that's neither here nor there at this point, and perhaps somewhat irrelevant. The important thing to us as collectors is that Wertham did make note of it, and because of his efforts, he has forever bound an association between spanking panels and comic books forever (a perfect love affair). Therefore Frontier Romances #1 is historically important for it represents a 'Spanko Fetishism' label for the first time being affixed to a comic book. Let's not be confused here, because proper social disciplinary action of the fairer sex was widely accepted and advocated at the time, (as commonly seen in many Hollywood movies of the era), Wertham was in fact picking on and targeting comic books. "Rendering a Spanking Panel or Scene is perfectly AOK in comic books so long there is not a hint of insinuated Eroticism, and any spanking scene with even a modest suggestion of Eroticism be taboo, should be avoided and outlawed within all comic book pages and stories was the distorted, suspicious message of Fredric Wertham. The labels and published interpretations associated with Frontier Romances #1 (and all other SOTI books) are purely those from the lurid repressed mind and colorful imagination of Frederic Wertham alone, and the book should probably have been retitled "Seduction Of My Immature, Obsessive, Impressionable and Paranoid Mind by Dr. Fredric 'Quack Quack' Wertham." This has inspired me to one day write a book titled 'Everything I know About Women I have Learned From Comic Books.'

Comics were a major part of pop culture entertainment at the time, everyone read them from kids and Teens, to Servicemen, as well as mature Men and Women (there truly was something out there for everyone to enjoy within comics). Each comic book title usually targeted a single demographic (as many other products did). Spanking is traditionally a punishment, or means of rehabilitating bad behavior that is reserved for the juveniles in our society, and there is a communal stand that there is nothing erotic about that, and should never be. However, the lines between judicial prudence and erotic fetishism may blurred by mature readers when the recipient is a sexy, shapely, buxom and leggy woman helplessly prone, bottom's up, over the lap of a dominant figure (be they male or female) for a healthy spanking session for her own good (obviously ;). It could not be easy for any red-blooded American man or woman, whether Spanko or vanilla alike, to interpret the spanking of such a bratty vixen as anything but 'curious,' 'titillating', or in the very least 'a funny, welcomed and awkward sight.' That may be human nature. This website does make a distinction between Spanking Juveniles and Spanking Adult women. This website ONLY focuses it's attention, opinions and interpretations on adult women and older teens getting spanked in comic book panels, nothing else. That is what Wertham was pointing out to us all, and that is the only area this website will be addressing. In an obscure way, we will be carrying on, and expanding Wertham's research into Spanking in the comics for the betterment of mankind.

This website will discuss, rate and score Comic Books which contain story's that include either a single spanking panel, more than one spanking panel, or a spanking scene, some of which are well known in collector circles and others which are not as well known. But each is deserving of some recognition as a key issue within their respective titles, as there are collectors out their waiting to discover them, value them higher than other issues within the same title range, and eagerly desire to scoop them up for their comic book collections. Using the guidelines set forth by the CCA, which Fredric Wetham helped influence, we will do the opposite, and praise comics for pushing boundaries and for entertaining and educating us about violence, war, racism, drug use and sexuality. We are here to offer commendation to comic books that display originality, and collect them as historians and keepers of the past. We are who we are today because of the lessons we have learned from the past. For your consideration, we submit a tongue in cheek perspective, one that advocates and grants sanctuary to all topics that have been historically labeled taboo, and art which has been persecuted in comics including, but not limited to, the exaggeration of women's physical qualities and suggestive and salacious postures rendered through vivid artistic illustration based upon an individual artist's ideas or fantasies. Let's not omit seduction, sex perversion, violent love scenes, sexual abnormalities, nudity with meretricious purpose, and especially clothed (female) figures that are presented in such a way as to be (socially) offensive or contrary to good taste or morals shall now be prized for their innovation and ability to invoke attention and discussion.

Some samples of Platinum and Golden Age comic book art still hold up well, even by today's liberal standards, yet can still push the buttons of extremists, be it the far right, far left and the sexually repressed. Much that Religious bodies and the Government feared and loathed in 1954/55 can today be interpreted as cute, compelling, controversial, funny and even sexy, or simultaneously all of the above. Our statement to the world is that censorship is ludicrous and counter-productive, and we hope that history records The CCA as a lark (as it attempted to protect society from comic books). Comic books are an art form which convey good, bad and ugly social commentaries, and whose ideas and opinions could never represent all, but rather represent some. Art in any form should never be silenced, and that is why we take exception to Mr. Wertham, The CCA, and anyone else that attempts to dictate the boundaries of good taste or artistic expression. Here, we honor the artists and publishers of times gone by and antiquity that have contributed or given comic books life. There is much data here to appeal to Spankos and Non-Spanko Comic Book Collectors alike. In the end, through multiple categories we offer our brand of Rating (appointing a final score to each book we process) a book's general appeal to collectors. The final book's tally should reflect their general desirability to collectors. From the compiled and dissected data we can then analyze patterns to form top lists in selected groupings. We hope you'll agree that this is a unique concept for presenting selected comic books by comparisons (backed up by supplied statistical data) - that is long overdue.

OVERSTREET: Published annually, The Official Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide is not simply a price guide, but rather the best resource of information on comic books. Aside from pricing info, grading terms, artist info, market reports, buying and selling trends and staple points, new benchmarks and more. It is invaluable to all comic book collectors. When I first began collecting comics in the mid to late 1980s, I was truly impressed that The Official Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide was listing certain 'Spanking Panels' as part of the item description for many listed books. These side notes often indicated key points of interest to collectors. As a collector I had already begun collecting books with art and covers by my favorite artists, most or all of which were in the GGA genre, generally late 1940s comics by Fox, and being a closeted Spanko at that time, it was a natural progression to begin the hunt for these specially noted issues and adding them into my comic book collection. In the early 1990s I was even supplying GGA data to the Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide. The Official Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide is a valuable asset and tool to every collector, and I suggest to everyone to purchase one, and keep it on hand for a priceless resource. This book is resourceful not only in it's pricing, and Artist information, but it also offers some Spanko Data of interest, as on certain books, it will note a Spanking Panel memo. The pricing information is vital to collectors. On well known books that have a Spanking Panel memo aside it's listing, and for other important attributes in the comic book world, you can expect to pay over guide in many instances. That is what happens when demand exceeds supply. This is particularly evident in comics from the Golden Age because many samples have just not survived the years. In other instances, some books are even scarcer than other books, and competition to acquire them can be fierce. And even though we may all wish to have high grade examples in our collections, that may not be possible, because sometimes high grade copies are just not available or are rarely offered up for sale. On these occasions, a mid grade book may be considered high. Overstreet is also a work in progress as it continues to obtain new data every year, though does require some assistance in their distinguishing between a Spanking Panel, Panels and Scenes (this is understandable), as well as some of their Fetish related notations, and which books should receive notations.

Around the late 1990s the Overstreet Price Guide began to unexpectedly cut back their listings for many 'spanking panels,' some of which we would designate as 'classic,' and couldn't understand why they would do such a thing. Personally, I kept pondering that question, I have come up with an assumption as to why they have taken those steps. As Comic Book Collecting was gathering momentum in the early 1990s from exposure from the 1989 Batman movie, many new collectors were entering the marketplace. Comic Book Collecting was evolving from a relatively small fun hobby to one of big business. Overstreet was also being sold to a new company, Gemstone, but do not think Gemstone's acquisition plays any part in the Spanking Panel listings being systematically abbreviated. Overstreet must have been inundated with conflicting reports and data submissions from all corners of comicdom, and that includes Spanko data. 'Add this' or 'Delete That' must have been the cry they heard. Given the fact that the Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide is a general guide for ALL aspects of collecting, they were by no means an authority on the spanking fetish, and therefore much confusion must have surrounded this misunderstood area of collecting. For instance, if some collectors were telling them that there is a spanking panel in Little Audrey #whatever, or Laff-A-Lympics #whatever, or Katy Keene spanking her kid sister in issue #whatever, and expecting such a note to be printed within the price guide, then I completely understand their confusion and wanting to take a step back from it all. Who could blame them. I hope that this site can clarify much in the comic book collecting hobby including which comic books to annotate with a 'Spanking Panel' label. Remember, Wertham himself set the definition to only include adult women in the context of spanking and bondage. Then, when we factor in The CCA's Post-Code Guidelines as to which rank amongst the best of the best, we can clearly know the proper issues to label. Spanking Panels are not alone being mis-labeled, or having a label being omitted completely. This exact same criteria rating can be applied to to Golden Age Bondage Covers, classic Bondage and S&M (for all the Fiction House collectors) art as well. A Fetish Code Authority (FCA), I nominate myself, to offer structure to the structureless. This site is my contribution.

GERBER: Gerber's Photo-Journal Guide to Comic Books is of interest to all comic book collectors because it attempts to picture every single comic book cover ever published in the Golden Age. Because the subject is so vast, it requires two oversized hard cover volumes (A-K & J-Z). I believe these hardcover giants were published in 1989-1990. What makes Gerber's books of interest to us who collect Spanking Panels is that Gerber also attempted to rate every issue into a Scarcity Index. I say 'attempted' because it was his own personal rough estimate, based upon his experience at the time (and having interviewed many top comic dealers as well), of the number of these books that are in existence (because nobody truly knows for certain). He rates books on a scarcity level between 1 and 10, 10 being the rarest of the rare, and likewise, 1 being abundantly common. There is a genuine consensus amongst Golden Age collectors that Gerber does a pretty good job, and usually his ratings are within 1 index point of where they should be, but sometimes, based upon our experience with these books, some of his ratings seems too high, while others seem too low by more than that margin. We can summarize that the most common Golden Age Books rate a 4. Our own Scarcity Index may differ in many cases from Gerber's on several specific books/issue numbers, however for the sake of keeping our Book Chart #4 as unbiased as possible, we've elected to use Gerber's Scarcity Index. Gerber's Scarcity Index only applies to Platinum and Golden Age books, so we've elected to rate Silver and Bronze at simple benchmark ratings for simplicity sake. The Photo-Journal Guides do not make any attempt to rate the condition/grade factor into the equation, which is something that collectors today still yearn for. Information is power. For instance, a Comic Book rated with a Scarcity Index value of 4 may have no known high grade copies slabbed by CGC, while another book with a Scarcity Index value of 8 may have numerous high grade issues slabbed in the CGC Census (and book value plays a part as to which books are submitted to CGC for slabbing). Higher valued books are more likely to be encapsulated, while inexpensive ones may not (because of the price of the encapsulating service). So one really needs to take the Scarcity factor with a grain of salt until the day when someone else attempts to publish an accurate guide to comic book scarcity.

CGC: A perfect example of the laughable confusion surrounding the mislabeling of Fetish attributes within the Comic Book hobby is naively (& ignorantly) being perpetrated by CGC Comics, the Certified Guaranty Company. This is a third party grading company who slabs comics in a tamper-proof plastic encasing to protect them, and adds a grading label on the outside which also notes key attributes within the slabbed issue. They are actually a terrific company who perform and offer a vital service as they also thoroughly check for comic book tampering and restoration, and offer freely on their website access to their Census which lists all the comic books they have encapsulated over the years (this is important info to get a feel for a book's scarcity level). However, they are NOT Fetish or Erotica experts. As Fredric Wertham had pointed out in SOTI, referring to Fox's Phantom Lady #17 from 1948, llo #4 with caption, "Sexual stimulation by combining 'headlights' with a sadist's dream of tying up a woman." CGC has been labeling any form of restraint from either gender, from any era as being a 'Bondage Cover.' Bondage covers and art should refer strictly to women, not men, not monsters, and not funny animals, and generally refers to the Golden Age era alone (exceptions can be made for extenuating circumstances). Bondage refers to a form of consensual play within the S/M Fetish arena even if the depicted fantasy may seem non-consensual to the outside observer. This cracks us up when we see a CGC slabbed Bronze or Post-Bronze Werewolf By Night comic selling on eBay (or elsewhere) with a 'Bondage Cover' annotation (as if a Werewolf in bondage has anything to do with Fetishism). So unless CGC has an agenda of purposely misdefining comics to confuse novice collectors, or perhaps they are being overtly politically correct for the sake of, and the the inclusion of the modern day Gay (there's nothing wrong with it) Comic Book Community, Women's Liberation Movement and other niche groups out there, then it means their 'Bondage' notations are ignorant (for lack of a better word), and we'd suggest they refine their standards to better keep with majority consensus of the actual fetish definition and how it conjoins with Comic Books. The more they water down the Bondage Cover label, the more they are actually hurting the comic book hobby by stealing the glamor and mystique surrounding actual Bondage Covers. There is no excuse for it hence forth that their error has been pointed out. Thank goodness Overstreet has not made that same amateur error, that would really be the decline of accurate Fetish data for the comic book collecting hobby if that were to happen. By thinking about Wertham and his zany ideas, and the CCA guidelines of 1954/55, the comic book collecting hobby can find their way through the clutter of misinformation out there, and focus on what Wertham feared the most, 'sexy women and kink.' That is what should be noted and prized when it comes to Fetish themes within comic book collecting.

CGC Comics is quite knowledgeable about many topics and artists, but do not for a moment think that whatever they have elected to note on their labels pertaining to the contents of an individual book is the final word on the topic. They are human collectors just like the rest of us, and therefore have the same access to information as the rest of us, and they keep learning. There are many labels out there that omit a 'Spanking Panel' notation on them, and other labels have incorrect cover or interior artist listed. Some artists simply are not listed on a label for many reasons, one of which is that if there is no certainty about an artists involvement (concrete evidence), and another may be that some artists are not as well known to them as others, and finally, CGC may simply not be aware of such information yet. That means that what is written on their labels will evolve over time.

There is a vast amount of visual spanking material from comic books spread across the internet in abundance, you need not look far. Of course they are usually the same old scans being rehashed from website to website. The missing element is information. This website will provide you with more information than you ever dreamed of or wanted per highlighted book and extends far beyond the simple title and issue number. Our focus is on data, art drawn by respected and influential artists and their art execution as well. There will be no clutter here, like Harvey or similar Kid Comics, or even males getting spanked. All the data collected here is original and comes from our collective's first hand research and actual detective work on spanking panels with healthy, grown women on the receiving end. As with other relatively undiscovered or under-appreciated gems from other genres like War Comics, Spanking Panels deserve their long awaited turn in the limelight. Many of these books are only being uncovered now with the advent of the internet. As more collectors get into the action, the demand is likely to rise, and spanking panel appearances will no longer be a diamond in the rough, but rather a valuable buffed stone, like other areas of comic book collecting. Still, many can be purchased relatively inexpensively (compared to others which are already well known) on the internet

Sometimes it seems there are countless examples of women and older Teens being spanked in the comics, yet sadly that is not the case. The truth is that there is not enough of them. We are always interested in discovering and uncovering new ones for inclusion into this site. If you have any information about a spanking panel in a comic book (from 1900-1984) that relates to our field of research, please CONTACT us. We are actively trying to research spanking panels from Golden Age books with strip reprints such a Popular Comics and Famous Funnies (and other similar titles with characters such as Smilin' Jack, Mandrake, anything by Roy Crane, Prince Valiant and so on). Also in Gold and Silver Age Romance, Western, Crime, Teen, Jungle and Super-Hero genres. Of particular interest are Timely, Marvel, Atlas and DC Teen comics from the Golden and Silver Ages of Comicdom. This site is not interested in modern Graphic Novels (only info pertaining to a specific book's data and original printed whereabouts). If you have a copy of Gerber's Photo-Jounal Guide for Golden Age Comics on hand and would like to offer this site some Scarcity Index data that we are missing, or if anyone finds any typos or erroneous data posted at this site or if you feel that any important information has been omitted from our data charts, please make contact so that we may make the corrections and updates.

There are many reputable comic book dealers on the internet for you to purchase comic books. Many have online catalogs for you to peruse in your effort to locate a specific issue. eBay, Yahoo! and other online auction sites are also great avenues for buying and selling comics.