Comic Book Collecting

In which a remarkable, artful composition featuring a Frenchie doing the "No, No, No" with wagging finger by illustrator Eugene Bilbrew introduces us to a great series of black and white photographs of Gay Paree strippers.  Truly erotic for a change, the photos are credited to "M. Gaspard" (4 x 5 press camera, Tri-X film, flood lights and reflectors) and I suspect, not confirmed, but suspect...this is a Leonard Burtman digest with no publisher indicated. There was a time Lenny was importing...Read Full Story

If I have learned anything producing these vintage sleaze posts, it is that the first application of any new technology, even one as silly as a rubbing transfer piece of paper which predates the silly copying technique of silly putty...will be to fiddle around with the female form. Even if she is only a paper doll in comic form. A selection of some young, impressionable young man's attempt at reversing the image of hot comic book babes in order to get additional views.Kopeefun Paper (which...Read Full Story

TODAY'S VINTAGE SLEAZE POST is an article I was invited to contribute to CHISELER.org a bright, smart site which is recommended. I was happy to participate! Some of the content may already be familiar to folks who have followed the History of Tijuana Bible Series on this site. Tijuana Bibles didn’t come from Tijuana…they came from small-time organized crime figures who wouldn’t even qualify as buffoons in a Jimmy Breslin book. Think smaller and north of the border. We know this because...Read Full Story

Well, here is something you don't see everyday. For historical purposes, here is what purports to be the Original painting by Bill Ward used on the cover of Just Friends by Peter Willow, Wee Hours #511. It is being offered on Ebay with a stratospheric starting bid. It looks good to me, but if I were spending the opening bid, I'd want to see it in person, including the edges and the reverse out of the frame (which Ward could hardly have imagined!) Before YOUR peter willows, note the seller is...Read Full Story

Jack Kirby surrounded by his creationsNeal Adams is an award-winning comic book artist who's penciled everyone from Batman to the X-Men. He's also a tireless advocate for the rights of comics creators who helped Superman co-creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster win eternal credit for their character back in the '70s. These days he's trying to get Marvel Comics to turn over the same kind of credit to another comics icon: Jack Kirby.Neal Adams (standing left) with Jerry Siegel, Joe Shuster, and...Read Full Story

The TRUE History of Tijuana Bibles Entry number SEVENTEEN is up NOW on Vintage Sleaze  TRUE Tijuana Bibles (!!) Actual Sleaze from Tijuana! Soft-Core Handmade 7 Zephyr and Estorica Press History of Tijuana Bibles Eight Pagers # 17 Entry number SEVENTEEN in the series on the history of Tijuana Bibles by Jim Linderman. So far, we have documented the books came not from Tijuana, but from the Mob In Pennsylvania. That members of the Senate enjoyed reading them. And more...Make sure to see the...Read Full Story

Finding a cartoon by "HOMER" is easy. Finding anything about Homer Provence, however, is not. I do know he lived at one time in, of all places, Yuma, Arizona. His birth and death is reported as 1919-1975, but I'm afraid a trip to Yuma to browse microfilm is not in my deck of cards. What I can find is that Homer Provence was a journeyman, and if being prolific was a qualification for "master" he would be there. He was better than most, frequently employing sophisticated shading and an...Read Full Story

One of my superheroes and all-around (strange) good guy Craig Yoe is an unforgettable figure. A one-man superman himself who had the audacity, bad taste and good fortune to both discover and publish the striking and remarkable S&M drawings of Superman creator Joe Shuster in his book Secret Identity. A book which now receives the first Honorary Vintage Sleaze Award for re-corrupting youth all over again 50 years after Kefauver! He missed one. Unlike Superman, NIghts of Horror was Joe Shuster's...Read Full Story

You know, the more I dig the more I find the Kefauver committee folks were right...those pre-code comics were drawn by a big passel of perverted penmen!Witness (or maybe he should have been "witness" number one) Don Rico. Sure, Don's crazy "Sergeant Spook" was harmless, being a ghost cop who wouldn't corrupt a flea. But who knew Don also drew the cover to the only soft-core novel about a baseball player who got to third base with the manager's daughter!Don Rico has numerous pseudonyms. I don...Read Full Story

From the ORIGINAL POST on the Daily blog VINTAGE SLEAZE by Jim Linderman One of my superheroes and all-around (strange) good guy Craig Yoe is an unforgettable figure. A one-man superman himself who had the audacity, bad taste and good fortune to both discover and publish the striking and remarkable S&M drawings of Superman creator Joe Shuster in his book Secret Identity. A book which now receives the first Honorary Vintage Sleaze Award for re-corrupting youth all over again 50 years after...Read Full Story