Eugene Bilbrew; Irving Klaw

Tormented Bondage! (Vintage adult magazine)

New York: Mutrix, 1960s. $5 cover, n/d, 12pp comics "The Countess of Castle Kruel" then 50pp txt, il/txt., saddle-stapled softcover 12mo, b/w throughout, catalog lists at rear (Wholesale Book Corp.), 62pp, 1960s, undated. Vintage digest magazine, illustrated adult fiction (erotica), featuring buxom women, sometimes elaborate torture apparatuses, high heels, oral gags, dominatrix Amazonians, Black studs. Foreshadows the current "graphic novel" from a perspective of construct, w/ several full-page illus. w/ speech bubbles. Fetish themes like BDSM, homosexuality, transvestism, cat fights, slick hair, shining leather, ads for Coccinelle, were par for Mutrix publications. Produced/published by Irving Klaw, whose staff arsenal included Eugene Bilbrew, Eric Stanton, and Ken Landau. Very Good Plus, light foxing, rubbing, toning. For consenting, mature audiences. [Book ID 127263]