#962 - Gwen x 5

Sweeter Gwen and The Return of Gwendoline,
Eric Stanton, early 1960s,
published in one volume by
Bélier Press, Inc.,
1976

Sweeter Gwen,
optimized for ebook viewing

The Return of Gwendoline,
optimized for ebook viewing

Bound Over or The Missing Gwen de Lynn,
Volumes One and Two,
Gene Bilbrew, signing as Van Rod,
1960s

and

Display at Bizarre Manor,
Gene Bilbrew,
1960s

Sweeter Gwen & The Return of Gwendoline
In the 1950s, John Willie produced a series of comic stories centered on the frisky mishaps of his fetching damsel-in-distress, Gwendoline. As a tribute to this achievement, Eric Stanton created a parody titled Sweeter Gwen in 1962. This ink comic strip has been published many times and was serialized in Bizarre Life. Some episodes have been included in our Bizarre Life ebooks. It was first presented in a digest-sized booklet with a spectacular color painting by Mr. Stanton, who was justifiably proud of his covers. It is a comic melodrama with villains and rescuers, most dressed in stockings, corsets and high heels.

A few years later, Mr. Stanton produced The Return of Gwendoline, a comic story that was also first presented in digest-format with a Stanton color cover. These are shaded pencil drawings of three voluptuous femmes and a dominated t-v maid, Eustace. Auntie phones Gwendoline's mistress U-69 and asks her to come over to help her improve Eustace's performance. Upon arrival, Auntie works to bring Gwendoline in line. Then the two dominant divas clash. This is some of Mr. Stanton's best drawing.

The Bélier Press volume of 1976 presented these two works together for the first time, and included a new, color Stanton painting. The full-sized magazine positioned one to six panels on each page. One ebook presents the complete contents (except the ads) of that book in its original form with the two original digest cover paintings included in color. Two other ebooks present each comic separately, for ease of viewing and minimal scrolling. In these volumes, the page shape is a wide rectangle to take advantage of the aspect ratio of your monitor and Acrobat Reader.

Bound Over or The Missing Gwen de Lynn
Painting as Van Rod, Gene Bilbrew produced a parody of Mr. Willie's Gwendoline and The Missing Princess at about the same time. Some of the more than 55 episodes/panels recreate the original scenes in fluid grey watercolors and ink. Corsets, high heels, stockings and devices decorate most of the images. Gwen is kidnapped. The ebook includes all available panels with captions from volumes one and two, although the set is probably both unfinished and incomplete.

Display at Bizarre Manor
This eight-page comic is among the best of Mr. Bilbrew's pencil work. The style is similar to that of his Tiny Transvestite comic, which was included in the FETISH MAYHEM ebook.

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