Bill Ward and the Hippies Adam Stag Humor Free Love and Big Boobs

Bill Ward takes on the Hippies. Bill was far from hip, being a mostly stay-at-home Uber-geek with pop-bottle glasses and a drawing board, but he survived more social movements than Allen Ginsberg. Ward drew World War Two helmets staring at boobs, Madison Avenue fedoras staring at boobs, goatee wearing beatniks staring at boobs and here, one of them is in the process of morphing into a hippie man staring at boobs.

Adam magazine is as familiar to 1960s men as JFK and James Bond, but less known are the cartoon specials. Special they were! Ward takes 6 full pages to tell the story of "Hippies of All Nations" in which beret-wearing Tour-de-France bikers flip over their bicycles for boobs, Russian dissidents paint love slogans on the Iron curtain while looking at boobs and a stiff British guard tries not to break his stance by looking at boobs. He does, of course, out of the corner of his eye.

Later in the same issue, Ward is back with "Hippie Takeover" in which a hoard of busty mini-skirted women with big boobs take over a building site usually occupied by Nixon hard hats.

I believe there were 5 annual issues of Adam Stag Humor. This is number three from 1968. There are LSD jokes, Wenzel and Lynn Harrison gag cartoons along with the regular assortment of clip-art filler, tired film stills with "contemporary" gag-lines added and several pages of filthy ads in back.

The whole she-bang proves neither Adam or Bill had any idea at ALL what was going on. They did suspect that they were missing out on all the free-love...and they knew women had boobs.




Adam Stag Humor III Knight Publishing Company Los Angeles, CA 1968

Magazines Ain't What they Used to be Vintage Sleaze Stare Digest 1959

Mara Velous heats up a pool, Big-time Burly promoter Johnny Robinson pours over pictures and Lili St. Cyr draws a bath. Rear cover of Stare Digest 1959.

Stare Digest "Exciting & Lively Picture Pleasure" Humorama Timely Features October 1959 issue collection Victor Minx.

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Is She HOT? Amateur Pinup Generates Some Heat Vintage Sleaze Vintage Photo

Looks like the photographer couldn't pay the heat bill. Here a hapless model hovers near a radiant space heater while trying to appear hot for the camera.

Original Photograph, Anonymous circa 1950 Collection Victor Minx

Crazy Kopeefun Cuties! Comic Transfer Rubbings for Rubbing from the 1940s Earliest Pop Art ?

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 was "magic") was produced in this batch from Embree manufacturing company in Elizabeth, NJ. in 1941. So I am going to guess these cartoon ladies came from comic books circa 1941-1950, assuming the magic portion of the sheets would wear out at some point.

Any comic book scholars out there care to identify the artists or their spicy creations?

Group of Kopeefun transfer rubbings, circa 1941-1950 Collection Victor Minx


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UPDATE COMIC (AND OVERALL) GENIUS DEVLIN THOMPSON CONTRIBUTES THE FOLLOWING (AND WINS A T-SHIRT) : The blonde with the forelock is "Suzie," from the 1945-54 Archie Comics series of that name (http://www.comics.org/series/13221/). The first and sixth image are her fellow Archie-published character Katy Keene (http://www.comics.org/series/11875/). I'm inclined to think the last are from another publisher, and the blonde in the third example MAY be as well. On the other hand, Archie's house look before the fifties was a lot less uniform, so it's possible that it's actually Betty Cooper (Bill Ward actually drew a couple of "Betty & Veronica" stories in the forties that looked like this). "Suzie" and "Katy Keene" stories were both featured in PEP COMICS and LAUGH COMICS through the years, so it's possible that those are all from the same comic, but I doubt it.

Let's Go Fishing for DAMES! Vintage Sleaze Fishing Bobber

A mermaid from the 1950s Fishing tackle box.


Nude Risque Fishing Bobber circa 1950 Molded Plastic, Hand Painted Collection Jim Linderman

Edward Mishkin School for Passion The Rare Digests #26 by Jim Linderman on Vintage Sleaze the Blog

School for Passion is an extremely scarce book published and distributed by Edward Mishkin early in his pornography career. A career which becomes increasingly evident (as I research it) to have continued a long, long time. This is true especially considering his arrests, but also most surprising as no less than the Supreme Court affirmed his conviction! Some folks don't learn. Or maybe they do.

With extraordinary illustrations by Eugene Bilbrew, one shown here, the book by "H. Tennob" is circa 1955. I plan to have many more illustrations and revelations in the forthcoming book TIMES SQUARE SMUT which I am plugging away at.

"School for Passion" H. Tennob No publisher, No date (Edward Mishkin circa 1955-1959) Collection Jim Linderman


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Pepper Magazine Digest Humor Magazine 1957 Wenzel

As good pair, front and back. Both by Bill Wenzel.
Pepper March 1957 Minneapolis, MN Collection Jim Linderman

Dooto Does It! Long Players for the Segregated Race Party

Think you've heard it all? Nope. "All" would include these records which primarily made it only to the hood when it was segregated, not gentrificated. Plus they were sold under the counter.


Dooto records was created by Walter "Dootsie" Williams, and their primary function was to release funky and filthy.


This material is every SHADE of off-color. There is even a ventriloquist act who recorded as Willie and his Rising Dick. The great late Redd Foxx was the staple, but there were others and they were just as filthy.

HERE is the full story as well as one of the most amazing discographies you can imagine. Compiled by Dave Edwards, Mike Callahan and Patrice Eyries, it is a great story and the best reason for you to rush to the nearest flea market and buy a record player.

Altitude Fantasy! The Mile High Club and Everything You Need To Know About Sex (In the Air)

The recent freak-out of the frantic flight attendant got me thinking...and that's usually a bad thing.


Most members of the Mile High Club are lying, of course. I got close twice...that is if you count a stewardess agreeing to share a room with me if we missed the connecting flight. They held the damn plane for us and my fantasy evaporated like vapor trails. Of course, we would have been on terra firma, but still, most men like female flight attendants. You are trapped up there...what else is there to think about?

The other nearly qualifying event was under a pair of courtesy blankets. It was a long time ago and we were young and in love. I'm so old now, I feel like Groucho Marx delivering that line now.


There is a mile high club of sorts HERE. I'm not taking the time to see if they are legit, so click with caution, but I laughed out loud reading the story about their founder.


Claiming you are a member of the club is like a golfer claiming a hole in one on the day he played alone...who will believe it? They have smoke detectors in the john, but not cameras. I don't think yet anyway...so your story will be just that until your confederate comes forward, and she's probably home now hoping you never call.


Most accounts seem to claim air turbulence adds to the thrill. Pfft. I hate flying so much, I'd just do it on an unbalanced washing machine at the coin-op.

The Eros Goldstripe book here is one of a dozen silly porn books designed to cash in on the best seller. No one read them, they were full of pictures. You can thank the low flying low morals of Reuben Sturman for the series.


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The 606 Club Chicago Wabash FACTS not Rumors Burlesque and Bombs

The 606 Club on Wabash in Chitown. Rumored to be both the site Mayor Daley and JFK met to work out deals on stealing the election and later the reason Chicago received the 606 Zip code. But we only deal in the FACTS here, folks. So rather than malign the fine establishment, the following is the true story of the 606 Club.

In 1967, two mugs were arrested for the murder of two cops...in their "possession" was stolen money AND Mary Cook, AKA "Sheer Folly" a silver blonde who danced at the 606 club.

In 1945, three women employees of the club and the emcee were arrested in a raid.

In 1955, 606 club owner Louis Nathan was quizzed about vote fraud.

In 1962, Showbiz blabbermouth Earl Wilson name-checked the club in a slobbering review of the staggering talents of George Burns.

In 1945, another arrest...5 are charged with indecent exposure, disorderly conduct and morals.

In 1943, a bomb was placed in, or near, the club.

In 1940, claiming the club had an "almost continuous strip tease..." Life Magazine ran a photo of an "anatomically dexterous fat woman..." dancing while men with receding hairlines looked up from their bottles to watch.

In 1948 the club featured celebrated hot dancer "Trudine" for an extended engagement. Trudine is shown below.

Pair of 606 Club Matchbooks (Inside "The Biggest and Peepiest all girl show in town" circa 1945 Collection Jim Linderman


TRUDINE PREPARES FOR HER EXTENDED ENGAGEMENT

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Lynn Harrison Gag Pinup Cartoons The Early Days

Lynn Harrison was light years away from the other gag comics in the 1950's issues of Humorama. Strange angles and perspectives. Thinner lines, thicker butts. All the people in a Lynn Harrison cartoon find themselves parked in a strange position. Men, who are frequently drawn more carefully, huddle in groups as if finding comfort amongst themselves. It is as if the artist was the first of the group to take acid or magic mushrooms...something was askew but no less rounded in curious ways.

In the later work, for Adam and other skin magazines the work is frequently fleshed out into a hyper-realistic style, the participants fuller, the work more illustration than cartoon, but no less strange.

Later work from Sex to Sexty shows no less creativity, but the figures reverted to line again as the signature become more and more ornate.




Group of Early Lynn Harrison Pinup Cartoons for Humorama 1950-1960 Last Piece Original drawing by Lynn Harrison collection Victor Minx

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Snap Crackle Pop and SCHWING Don Margolis Forgotten Master

Don Margolis drew Snap Crackle and Pop for ten years working with the Leo Burnett advertising agency. That is some serious character work, the little guys certainly being known worldwide. I couldn't tell you which was Snap, which was Crackle or which was Pop, but having a sound associated with your character is a brilliant way to drive the message home. (Home being the impressionable minds of young children so they will remain brand loyal for the rest of their lives.) It is called onomatopoeia, and it has kept the cereal popping for over 75 years.

Did I say they are known worldwide? Yup...and here you go. The little gnomes sound like "Pif! Paf! Puf!" in Denmark, "Cric! Crac! Croc!" in France, "Pim! Pum! Pam!" in Mexico...and on and on and on.

I am not sure exactly when Don took over the creatures, but he apparently drew them until 1978.

Don's greatest work, however, is clearly these busty buxom babes drawn for Fling Magazine in 1959. Sorry...just my opinion. Don't you hate to loose a good sexy cartoonist to corporate interests? Hopefully this post will bring more work by this under-rated artist out of the past.

Snap Crackle Pop and Schwing!


Illustrations by Don Margolis 1959 from Fling Magazine Relim Publishing, Chicago

Bettie Page True Story of the Jungle Girl Bunny Yeager, a Cannibal and Humorama

Bettie Page Bunny Yeager Humorama and a Cannibal

It seems remarkable these now curious jungle scenes of Bettie Page taken by pioneer photographer Bunny Yeager were not credited when published in Gaze Digest in 1960. One of a dozen small pin-up and gag cartoon magazines for men cranked-out by Timely Features, the layout in Gaze was at the time just another set of shots in black and white place in between the staple of the line...slightly sexist cartoons of buxom babes and dumb blonds. Yet the series of shots have come to epitomize not only the model's ability to own the camera, but one of the most interesting pieces of cheesecake from the 1950s. That they were taken by a woman, a pin-up model herself no less, is one of the more remarkable stories from the glory days of smut.

The images fit soundly into a comic gag tradition going back to the early days of racist popular culture, and one of a dozen or so standard themes used by cartoonists. Was anyone ever really boiled in a metal cauldron by a cannibal? Unlikely. But like workers peering up a skirt from a manhole or a shipwrecked sailor on an island with a woman and a palm tree it was a persistent theme providing fodder for virtually every cartoonist who sold work to the myriad of smut magazines of the 1950s. Racist and ridiculous. But taken to lengths not seen before when recreated by the photographer with the most beautiful model of all time.

There were other jungle girls. Sheena, for one, who first appeared in comic book form in 1938. Sheena wasn't real, but she was almost as hot as Bettie. She was portrayed by Irish McCalla around the same time as these photos. Of course there was also Jane, the woman Tarzan swung on vines and yodeled for. There was just something about a dame in leopard spots, but this was long before PETA.


Bettie Page actually worked with at least three photographers in Florida, though none have since become as celebrated as Yeager. Bettie was a tenant of a fifty dollar a month flat on West 46th Street in Manhattan, and one who could command twice going rate of other pin-up girls working at the time. Ms. Page could well afford her annual vacations to Florida.

While in Florida in 1952, Ms. Page registered with a model agency and did a few shoots, mostly for goofy "Welcome to Florida" type postcards (including one with an alligator) but it was editor, travel writer and gossip columnist Herb Rau who introduced her to Bunny Yeager two years later in 1954. Himself a photographer of note, Rau was for 28 years an editor with the Miami News. He had moved to Florida in 1950, but first gained some recognition for covering the Hindenburg disaster.



Recognizing the model as a singular talent, Yeager had the good sense to work exclusively with Bettie for nearly a month. Good sense, but maybe not good manners...she had the model help carry the equipment and paid her virtually nothing. Yeager has been criticized (Bettie herself included) for "stiffing" the model and paying only twenty dollars for her now famous Playboy centerfold. To be fair, the photographer was paid only a hundred bucks by Hef...so let's not point any fingers. They didn't pay blues musicians much to record either, and they invented rock and roll.

Years later, Yeager was selling prints of the photos for $500 each...and more. However, it appears she left the cannibal shots out of the inventory. These shots do not appear in her book "Bunny Yeager's Photo File" from 1995 which was little more than a catalog for selling reprints of Page photographs. She did include the model with a monkey, a zebra, a cheetah, the camels and even hanging from a tree like Tarzan's Jane with a knife in her mouth,the same image shown here. She also included a novelty shot of Bettie with black gum on her teeth dressed in a feed sack dress in a misguided attempt at, well...who knows. Ms. Page had a sense of humor.

Yeager originally began working with the model indoors, but she later arranged an outdoor shoot at the once famous "Africa Wildlife Park" tourist trap in Boca Raton. Thankfully, It closed several years later. The joint even had their own horrible THEME SONG which as will see below played while "Jungle Jim" types in pith helmets drove the rubes through herds of unaware animals feeding off kibble tossed on the ground. A camel walks past a herd of zebra in a zoological gumbo which could only exist in tourist-land. I'm not sure which is more exotic...the dressed up now seen as racist "Ubangi-ish" natives, or the equally misplaced burros. No wonder it is reported Bettie Page found religion shortly after...who could pose in this giant animal cage without seeking salvation?

Mojah and Mbili were the cheetahs shown in photos purring with Bettie published elsewhere. I do not believe the "cannibal" shown here has been identified, but he certainly must have been perplexed by the whole thing. Whether he ever ate human flesh, especially that as tender and succulent as the then 30 year old model has not been reported.

When did the famous layout first appear? Good luck. Portions have been reproduced so often, it is hard to tell. It must have appeared before this group from 1960. Certainly the Humorama layout has not appeared on the web, though the company foolishly failed to renew their copyright on the material. As it has been hidden inside the issue for over 50 years now, I do not believe is has been reproduced before, so here you go. AND Complete with the inane and incomprehensible (anonymous) story line which probably made no sense in 1960 either. The only indication of the wonders within appear on the back cover, a small, green-tinted kettle shot with the line "Getting the Chief in a Stew!"

Ms. Yeager worked with Bettie Page only once or twice, but shooting well over 1,000 photos. Despite the brief partnership, the original photos have had a long life. Ms. Yeager during her lifetime published no less than 15 books on photography, a good many of them including Bettie Page. As I have written elsewhere, she was a genius, a pioneer and a serious looker of her own. But these photos, while legendary, are not her finest work.

By the way? Ms. Page sewed her own costume.

The official Bunny Yeager website is HERE. Her work was shown in a retrospective at the Warhol Museum in 2010.

My earlier tribute to the photographer, which included extraordinary photos located in an issue of Scamp magazine from 1957 is HERE

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Proto-porn article Link by Vintage Sleaze author

Link HERE to Jim Linderman Vintage Sleaze article "Proto-Porn from the 1950s" on Sugarcut (NSFW) Adult readers only.

Lewis Presents Carol Bealle "Roger Press" New York Early "Figure Study" digest circa 1952 Collection Victor Minx

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Rules of Burlesque Censor Says Net Pants Happy Ray Gets Lucky but Clients Get No Cooch

The rules of burlesque. An original backstage snapshot which provides some guidelines for the girls. Kansas City, 1953, and from the collection of one Happy Ray, a former burlesque comic and emcee turned manager of Connie Ray (which if the photograph I find of Mrs. Ray is true, Happy got lucky...REAL lucky.

Digging around lets you follow Hap's career a bit, with things like "Happy Ray after 12 weeks on the Empire Burly circuit...joined Boob Brasfields company in stock."

The photo, which I purchased from photograph dealer Stonewarezilla on eBay shows a theater manager in Kansas City. Clown feet at left...but I was most interested in the sign of rules.

Kansas City is hardly a place one would think rules mattered too much (being the place where they "got some crazy little women there and I'm going to get me one" after all) but I guess even in somewhat "open" towns the nipple is no no.

In fact, this very sign is mentioned in the book "Striptease: The Untold History of the Girlie Show" by Rachel Shteir on page 248. Ms. Shteir is my kind of writer...in addition to Striptease she's just published a history of shoplifting!

"Net Pants" were nylons which covered the g-string. Net Pants? Pfft. It certainly didn't say anything about net pants on the poster out front!

Original Snapshot, 1953 Kansas City Backstage at the Folly (Burlesque) Theatre, ex-collection Happy Ray Collection Victor Minx

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