#801 - Biz Mus + Princess + JAY

Bizarre Museum,
Eric Stanton, 1951 - 1952,
originally published by Irving Klaw,
re-published by Bélier Press, Inc., in 1978
in Bizarre Comix, Volume 9
a digital replica with optimization

Taming the Proud Princes,
Ruiz, 1958
originally published by Irving Klaw as photo prints in 1958,
re-published by Bélier Press, Inc., in 1985
in Bizarre Comix, Volume 21
a digital replica
and
optimized for ebook viewing

SPECIAL: First publication since the 1950s
Boots and Bondage,
JAY,
originally sold by Irving Klaw as photo prints, 1953 - 1956
digital replica
and
optimized for ebook viewing

Unlike Nutrix booklets, these comic serials are complete,
based on original photo prints.

Bizarre Museum
A superior early work by Mr. Stanton, Bizarre Museum consists of 20 episodes, each depicting a display of pretty damsels in painful predicaments. Countess Bizarre has crafted bondage scenes as described in Count Bizarre’s memoirs.

Restraint/punishment contraptions involve ropes, chains, pulleys, weights, flames, pipes, piranhas, snakes, bats, a gorilla, a catapult and a spider web. Many of the competent illustrations show pretty women in sexy, high-heeled shoes while stretched in a myriad of uncomfortable contortions, enforced by the cruel restraints.

The ebook is a faithful digital replica, except that the borders have been omitted. Many of the female figures are repeated, enlarged, sometimes inverted, on the following page, yielding an ebook of more than 30 pages.

Taming the Proud Princes
A mean Inca princess, Nenel finds out that her father, King Atla, has promised that she will marry King Cacalo. As she wants to marry King Coatl, she flees the kingdom with her clever tutor, Ocella, disguising themselves as peasants.

In Emerald Forest, they lose their way and are captured by Amazons in copper corsets. They are brought to Queen Cocome, who keeps them in an assortment of painful bondage devices. The guards force them through several punishment ordeals. Eventually, Princess Nenel is rescued by King Coatl.

Mr. Ruiz fashioned lovely villains and victims with feminine shapes and expressive faces. Ropes, chains, gags, trees and stones fix captives in uncomfortable positions.

The 20-episode comic serial is presented in two ebooks. The digital replica presents each episode, full-size, on its own page. The optimized ebook breaks apart the original layouts and positions each panel on more than 40 wide pages that fill the screen with pictures of pretty captives.


SPECIAL: Boots and Bondage by JAY
For decades, the only accessible art by American JAY consisted of the Nutrix Anything Goes Girls Club booklet of 1962. Last year, we offered JAY’s Fashions in Boots and Bondage for the first time since Irving Klaw sold them as photo prints in the 1950s.

In two formats, we now publish other JAY content that has not been offered for sale since Irving Klaw sold the work as photo prints in the 1950s. It is not available in print or on websites.

JAY's art was probably motivated more by his interest in the subject matter than in pursuit of a career in commercial illustration. Despite the somewhat primitive qualities of his ink and pencil work, he achieved his creative objectives with conscientious consistency. As in Girls Club, his smiling characters have hourglass shapes and long, tapering legs poised in ultra-high heels. Their fantasy footwear consists of ballet-toe boots, strappy sandals, pumps, d’Orsay pumps, ballet-toe shoes, ballet shoes, knee-high boots, thigh-high boots and other styles that defy description. His six-inch heels were shaped with a lovely taper.

The first person story is told by Johnnie, who moves into a lakeside house next to a cabin occupied by three sisters — Sally, Sylvia, and Suzy. He finds the threesome irresistibly attractive in their high heels, gags, blindfolds, corsets and bondage. He spends many hours in their company and his prose describes the sexy costumes, fabulous figures, and restraint ensembles that the ladies say they enjoy.

The original 30 episodes are presented in a digital replica, with one complete chapter to a page. The chapters typically have two or three panels, and, in the optimized ebook, each picture is presented on a separate page. Enlargements of choice fetish details — legs, footwear, corsets, bondage schemes — are repeated next to the complete panel or on following pages. More than 80 ebook pages make the most of this rare fetish ephemera.

Five ebooks, two optimized, delivered by download link.