#547 - Leather Girl Bill Ward Teenage Terror Hilbarth

Teenage Terror
a novel by William Whitehead
illustrated by Bill Ward
Tortura Press TP-123
Hilbarth, Inc.
Buffalo, New York
1972

digital replica with optimized pictures


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Leather Girl
illustrations by Bill Ward
Eros Publishing Co., Inc.
Wilmington, Delaware
1979

digital replica

Teenage Terror
Siblings Queen Cara and King Erick have established their own monarchy where they rule guards and captives. Their sexual preferences include crude sadism, all kinds of oral activities, deflowering virgins, and even conventional modes.

In several scenes, volatile Queen Cara alternates between delivering lip service and whipping or other humiliating exercise. She's demands varied attention from her brother, the king.

The royal couple use male and female captives to gratify their relentless sexual appetites and as whip targets. They direct personnel to accomplish punishment, deliver intimate service and endure painful discipline, even when undeserved.

Mr. Whitehead provides descriptions of costume, bizarre punishment equipment, and incendiary torments that delight the sadists as they assail prey. His easy-to-read prose exposes the development of sensation during sex and punishment, and thoughts of those involved.

The text has been completely reset for the ebook iteration. Except for spelling and punctuation, few changes were made to the professional prose. At 51,000 words, Teenage Terror is longer than most Tortura Press novels.

The paperback presents 10 Bill Ward illustrations. Tasty fetish details from the art have been repeated, enlarged.

Illustrations depict incidents in the story and the grand female figure of the alluring sadist and her victims. As permitted by story content, page sequence was revised to position each picture close to related prose, but not every picture is described nor does every scene appear in pictures.

Optimized pictures appear on 30+ pages. The brightness and contrast of illustrations was adjusted.

All new scans.

Leather Girl
In the early 1960s, Irving Klaw published Nutrix booklets that told a story in pictures and prose. His covers usually announced the number of illustrations contained within and the artist. When the artist wasn't named, [e.g., Bondage Society's Bizarre Costume Ball, Female Doctor Forced into Bondage] or when two artists names were shown, this meant that pictures from multiple narrative origins were re-organized to show a story progression. Mr. Klaw wrote prose to fit his sequence of images.

Leather Girl employs a similar strategy with Mr. Ward's art. By 1979, he would have illustrated more than 100 Bizarre Books novels (more than 1000 pictures) and provided hundreds more illustrations for short fiction in Eros Goldstripe magazines. The creator of Leather Girl assembled about 50 illustrations from as many stories and wrote a piece of fiction that matched their erotic motif.

The Leather Girl story rambles a memoir of a young man's sex-life guided by his early awareness that he prefers demanding women. The first-person narrative tells of the many women who used him, and how he experienced pleasure while accomplishing their demands.

Illustrations depict female-dominant tableaux rather than present scenes from the text. Despite narrative dissonance between prose and pictures, the strong alignment of theme accomplishes an engaging presentation of sexy masochist fantasy.

As announced in the page-2 EDITORIAL, “ In this magazine, you will meet evil, demanding goddesses, who crave nothing more than to see their male grovel and beg humbly at their leather-booted feet. You will see them in action . . . commanding, imperious and bitchy . . . and you will whimper to be the next victim of their rage.”

Nearly all of these pictures show Mr. Ward's voluptuous female ideal in fetish attire. Sexy beauties appear in nylons, boots, high heels, long gloves and corsets. Many scenes depict footwear worship.

The ebook presents all of the magazine in the original sequence, including advertising. A few ad-page layouts were revised. Brightness and contrast were adjusted.

All new scans.

A rare 1970s artifact, Leather Girl's prime value is its collection of Bill Ward illustrations showing his bitchy beauties in high heels. It seems odd that the covers fail to display his art or his name.

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