#792 - Eneg: Ladies in Rubber & Sabretta Dominates in Rubber + Mario: Rubber Queen

Ladies in Rubber,
Eneg/Gene Bilbrew, 1954
originally published by Irving Klaw,
re-published by Bélier Press, Inc., in 1985
in Bizarre Comix, Volume 22

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Sabretta Dominates Her Slaves in Rubber,
Eneg/Gene Bilbrew, 1954
originally published by Irving Klaw,
re-published by Bélier Press, Inc., in 1983
in Bizarre Comix, Volume 18

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Rubber Queen’s Captives,
Mario, 1957?
originally published by Irving Klaw,
re-published by Bélier Press, Inc., in 1976
in Bizarre Comix, Volume 6

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The content of Ladies in Rubber, Sabretta Dominates Her Slaves in Rubber, and Rubber Queen’s Captives, is copyright © Bélier Press, Inc., and used by arrangement with Bélier Press, Inc.

Ladies in Rubber
Transposing his comic strip talent to fetish serials, Gene Bilbrew poured youthful enthusiasm into this early work for Irving Klaw. Fluid lines reveal lovely feminine shapes in all kinds of inventive rubber attire and accessories. The story tells of two women who enjoy dressing in rubber dresses, blouses, skirts, corsets, stockings, and rubber high-heeled shoes and boots. The image on the right shows a few of these costumes.

Originally sold by mail order, photographic enlargement prints were the cost-effective duplication option for short runs prior to the invention of electrostatic copy technology. The chemical-based photo printing method resulted in inconsistent tonality in the small reproductions.

In each of the 30 episodes, one to six pictures of different sizes are clustered around blocks of text. The Bizarre Comix iteration preserved these layouts. In the ebook, the text is placed beside the narrower comic panels.

In the ebook, each of the more than 100 vivid pictures is placed on one wide, monitor-filling ebook page. If you owned the original photo prints or the Bizarre Comix volume, the ebook version would give your first glimpse of these drawings that allows a clear view of all the precious details without magnification.

The images were not re-sized to fill the pages. Rather, after high resolution scanning, page frame resolution was adjusted, picture-by-picture, to allow the images to fill the space without stretching. This process is more like translation than transformation, and produces smooth lines and grays. There has never been a better mechanism to see these pictures.

If you appreciate this art, you now have the ability to enjoy it.

Sabretta Dominates Her Slaves in Rubber
This serial of 12 episodes has ink drawings that are more like modeled illustrations than comic-strip-style panels. The pictures are more uniform in size in this serial.

Sabretta operates a rubber plantation. The shapely characters wear rubber shoes, boots, jumpsuits and dresses.

Rubber Queen’s Captives
The eight episodes of this unfinished comic have a maritime setting. Nothing is known about Mario, who gave his female characters attractive shapes and expressive faces. Characters wear rubber dresses and jumpsuits and footwear with extremely high heels. Thirteen panels with narrative are followed by 12 sketchy, unrelated illustrations by Mario.

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