#289 - Trial by Bondage Satellite Gene Bilbrew

Trial by Bondage
illustrated by Gene Bilbrew
Satellite Publishing Co.
Jersey City, New Jersey
c. 1963

a hybrid e-book

Published at irregular intervals by Satellite Publishing Company (Stanley Malkin and Pat Martini) in the early 1960s, most of the nine Bound volumes featured illustrations by Gene Bilbrew. Satellite, Irving Klaw's Nutrix Publishing Company and Ed Mishkin's Mutrix Publishing Company all had business addresses on Montgomery Street in Jersey City, New Jersey during the 1960s. That didn't mean that they actually did any business there though. New buildings and a parking lot now replace the previous structures.

With its digest format, color cover and nine interior Gene Bilbrew pictures that illustrate typed fiction, Trial by Bondage mirrors the format of Satellite's Bound series. The story reflects the popularity of contemporary espionage motifs, with a kidnapped scientist, his beautiful daughter and resourceful secret agents in pursuit of their rescue.

The back cover says something like this:
A defense laboratory sends detectives to find missing Dr. Frisby, a brilliant scientist who was working on a powerful secret weapon. Handsome John and lovely Linda, his fantastically-proportioned cohort, find the missing scientist and his daughter, but they're prisoners of cruel bondage fetishists who operate a bizarre underground training and discipline center. The foreign enemy captures the detectives and subjects them to exotic leather costume bondage.

The prose details figure-hugging fetish attire and spike heel footwear. Text describes straps and frames that twist limbs in painful restraint.
Signing his pictures as Enegg, Mr. Bilbrew created superb illustrations of beauties in bondage and in charge. Mr. Bilbrew's pencil work here is as good as any he did, with luscious female shapes and faces displayed to emphasize femininity. He did an exceptionally conscientious job with the high-heeled shoes and boots of his characters. Two drawings and several pages of text describe a fight between daughter Caroline and Alexandra, directress of the discipline center.

The ebook contains every word and picture of the original. While most of the 70+ pages are text, most pictures fill the screen in an unusual hybrid e-book layout. All original scans.

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