Rare Super-Porn Discovered!
We just got an email from our old pal, Craig Yoe!. Craig sez:
I’d like to tell you about my brand spanking new book and blog.
I recently discovered incredible, previously unknown, fetish art by the creator of Superman, Joe Shuster. The artist and his writing partner, Jerry Siegel, had sold Superman for 130 dollars. When they sued to get the rights back they lost and got drummed out of the comic book industry and Shuster fell on hard times. It was unknown that to get by and/or because of a personal interest in the subject, Shuster then did S&M porn for under-the-counter booklets called "Nights of Horror," sold in Times Square in the early fifties. The back story I uncovered involves the Mob, showgirls, neo-Nazi Jewish juvenile delinquents, inspired by Shuster’s art, known as the Brooklyn Thrill Killers, the famed anti-comic book crusader Dr. Frederic Wertham, Senate investigations, cops on payola, the books being banned by the Supreme Court, teenage girls being horse-whipped in the park, two murders…and dare I say MORE?
I have a full color coffee table art book I wrote and designed coming out April 1 (no fooling!) about all this, Secret Identity: The Fetish Art of Superman’s Co-Creator Joe Shuster.The publisher is the number one leading art book publisher in the world, the prestigious Abrams. I’m blogging about the book and revealing lots of rare art and info that didn’t fit in "between the covers."
Craig’s too modest to note that his book also sports an introduction by Stan Lee.
Considering the fact that, at the time they purchased Superman, one of DC’s owners had been actively engaged in publishing what was considered by the post office censors “pornography,” this is a rather ironic story.
Sadly ironic.
Considering the fact that his vision was pretty much failing him by this time, I doubt Joe Shuster drew this. Maybe he art-directed it or laid it out. I suspect this is an early April Fool's Day gag.
Nope. It's not an April Fool's gag. This is an expansion on Craig Yoe's earlier work, "Clean Cartoonist's Dirty Drawings." http://www.amazon.com/Clean-Cartoonists-Dirty-Dra…
The story about Shuster's blindness was, to be polite, overstated. So was the story about him panhandling in front of DC's offices. Not that he wasn't treated like shit by National Periodical Publications; these stories tend to take on a life of their own. Much of the exaggeration came from Al Capp, of all people.After seeing this book's proofs, I'm quite certain that Shuster was strongly involved. He might have had an assistant, although my friend art expert George Hagenauer notes the pay for such drawings was so low, that's very doubtful.
I stand corrected.
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