#798 - Island of Captive Girls Eneg Fashions in Shoes and Boots JAY

Island of Captive Girls,
Eneg / Gene Bilbrew, 1953,
originally published by Irving Klaw,
re-published by Bélier Press, Inc., in 1977
in Bizarre Comix, Volume 8

optimized for ebook viewing

and

Perilous Bondage Assignment,
Jim, 1954
originally published by Irving Klaw as a Nutrix booklet in 1959,
re-published by Bélier Press, Inc., in 1982
in Bizarre Comix, Volume 14

a digital replica

and

SPECIAL: First publication since the 1950s
Fashions in Shoes and Boots,
16 chapters by JAY
originally sold by Irving Klaw as photo prints
1957, 1958

digital replica

and

optimized for ebook viewing

Unlike Nutrix booklets, these comic serials are complete,
based on original photo prints.

Island of Captive Girls
Jan and Elexus crash land on a beautiful tropical island. The natives are hostile and treat the survivors as enemies. With the collaboration of a rival tribal leader, the two pretty blonds escape.

Although the flora and fauna of a jungle paradise decorate the setting, the costumes are diverse. Centurion gear mixes with leather jumpsuits, grass bikinis, lacy lingerie and modern military uniforms. The island heroines, villains and visitors wear all kinds of footwear with tall, slender heels, including wedgies, mules, sandals, pumps and boots of many descriptions, sometimes with stockings.

Mr. Bilbrew gave his healthy damsels wonderful curves, and placed them in an imaginative assortment of predicaments. Not only accomplished in the deft delineation of female forms, he was just as skillful when drawing animals, trees, airplanes and architecture.

The comic story is told through the images and the descriptive narration within each panel. The horizontal orientation of most this comic's panels make it ideal for ebook optimization. Each episode has three to five panels and most panels show more than one character. The ebook optimizes the fluid ink illustrations by maximizing available space on the monitor screen with wide ebook pages. Many panel components are repeated without text to allow enlargement of characters, filling ebook pages from top to bottom. The ingenious picture elements of 30 episodes are carefully composed on more than 140 ebook pages in a presentation that anticipates the curiosity of the viewer.

The material is so dense with inventive content that paper pages do not adequately display the comic art. If you owned the paper version and had looked at it many times, the optimized ebook would disclose lovely details that you had never seen. There has never been a better mechanism for enjoyment of the work of young Mr. Bilbrew than optimized ebooks.

Perilous Bondage Assignment
Unlike most of the material that fills Bizarre Comix volumes, Perilous Assignment did not originate as photo prints but was first published as a Nutrix booklet in 1959. In the other Jim comics we've shown, the settings were mostly palatial and the characters royal. This work has a contemporary urban setting with pictures that illustrate a story.

The narrative by John T. Quill tells of a woman who investigates a photographer by pretending to be a model. Her studio impersonation requires her to wear boots and shoes with extremely high heels. In the end, she snatches code that defeats a spy ring.

Eighteen Jim illustrations show attractive women in spike-heeled footwear, stockings and corsets. Although the ebook version is a digital replica (not optimized), some picture elements have been repeated, enlarged, to make the most of Jim's great artwork.

The Nutrix text was reset for the Bizarre Comix version. Neither the Bizarre Comix version nor the ebook version contain photographs that were included in the 1959 Nutrix version.

SPECIAL: Fashions in Shoes and Boots by JAY
Previously, the only accessible art by American JAY consisted of the Nutrix Anything Goes Girls Club of 1962. The ebook presentation of Fashions in Shoes and Boots publishes JAY content that has not been offered for sale since Irving Klaw sold the work as photo prints in the 1950s. It is not available in print or on websites.

JAY's art was probably motivated more by his interest in the subject matter than in pursuit of a career in commercial illustration. Despite the somewhat primitive qualities of his ink and pencil work, he achieved his creative objectives with conscientious consistency. As in Girls Club, his smiling characters have hourglass shapes and long, tapering legs poised in ultra-high heels. Their fantasy footwear consists of open-toed boots, ballet-toe boots, platforms, sandals, pumps, mules, ballet-toe shoes, ballet shoes, knee-high boots, thigh-high boots and other styles that defy description.

The text tells of a fashion show at the opening of a specialty shoe store. Customers express preferences, and models show them outrageous footwear styles.

Sixteen chapters comprise Fashions, each with text and pictures of two or more female characters. The ebook optimizes the content by presenting each complete chapter on its own page and repeating and enlarging choice details next to the complete chapter or on following pages. More than 30 ebook pages make the most of this rare fetish ephemera.

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