TIJUANA BIBLES Art and Wit in America's Forbidden Funnies 1930s-1950s HC

Crammed with complete stories, this is the best collection of the notorious adult comics ever compiled. These under-the-counter mini-comics had movie stars, comic strip heroes, even gangsters engaged in explicit sex with nasty girls and boys, with exaggerated cartoony style. From Donald Duck to Flash Gordon, Mae West to Popeye, John Dillinger to The Fuller Brush Man...it's everyone doing the nasty. Includes excellent articles on the genre by Richard Merkin, Madeline Kripke ("Talking Dirty”), and a complete bibliography. This reprints the complete comics, from cover to punchline (after all, they were only 8-pages long). We also have Maggie and Jiggs, Wimpy, Olive Oyl, Tarzan, Andy Gump, Amos and Andy, Aunt Jemima, The Fan Dancer, Clark Gable, Myrna Loy, Clara Bow, W.C. Fields, Benny Goodman, Ingrid Bergman, Laurel and Hardy. Even Stalin, Hitler and Mussolini get the treatment. No institution was left unsullied, and every participant in these outrageous little booklets wanted one thing and one thing only...and it's all in full, explicit detail here. Out of Print. Condition: Fine Plus. Light cover and edge wear.