#540 - Backstage Doll in Bondage Bilbrew Slaves of the Century Hilbarth

Backstage Doll in Bondage
illustrated by Gene Bilbrew
Hilbarth, Inc.,
Buffalo, New York
1972

digital replica

and

Slaves of the Century
by Gunther Harding
illustrated by Gene Bilbrew
Tortura Press Ltd.
Hilbarth, Inc.,
Buffalo, New York
1972

digital replica

The two publications serving as source material for this product were illustrated by Mr. Bilbrew in the year before his untimely demise. While his legend whispers excesses involving alcohol and other substances in his last years, these ink illustrations from 1972 show his hand and imagination as competent as ever. Luscious female forms and precise fetish details reflect a lifetime of skill development. As well as any practitioner of erotic illustration, he consistently delineates unique character facial features from panel to panel, showing moods and feelings.

Both are sadist fantasy.

Backstage Doll in Bondage
A theatrical S/M impresario, Daakard gets ideas when he sees Caroll showing off her lovely curves in a topless dance revue. She's introduced to his kinky abuse and is then explored by his girlfriend Gia. When Caroll's cousin Lois shows up, Daakard chains and whips her, but later gets on his knees to show her how much she means to him. This makes Gia jealous. She painfully punishes her sometime boyfriend and Lois.

The scary gorilla turns out to be Daakard's brother Ormondo in a furry costume. He subdues his wife Gia and frees Caroll.
The original publication has the construction and dimensions of a full-sized magazine. The layout alternates text on even-numbered pages with pictures on odd-numbered and the full-sized ebook does the same. Some of the picture pages have two or three panels. It appears that the illustrations were based on the prose as balloons accurately quote dialog and images show scenes in the story.

The professional prose competently describes scenes and action, often using the vocabulary of the dialog. Although the prose traces most of the action, costumes and characters shown in the luscious illustrations, some descriptions are longer or shorter than one page. As the ebook duplicates the page sequence of the original, text is not always synchronized with images.

Everything in the original transposed well to the digital replica with large, clear pictures. The cover image came from another, low-resulution source. Lots of tantalizing bdsm mayhem on 45+ pages that readers will access again and again.

Slaves of the Century
This novel chronicles a regimen of cruelty at a prison for women. The vivid prose describes sadistic treatment of inmates by both female and male guards. It contains vile scenes and circumstances as well as lesbian interludes.

The first-person narrative tells of the incarceration of notorious bank robber Bonnie Palmer, who killed a dozen men. She never disclosed the whereabouts of the loot, which is a motive for incarceration rather than capital punishment after conviction. And the judge arranged a lifetime of painful penalties that serve as revenge for Bonnie's crimes.

The excellent writing brims with vernacular and the colorful talk of tough women. Since the writer's voice is that of a felon, the prose has the jargon of her trade.

The text has been completely re-set for the ebook version. Minor editing changes spelling and punctuation.

Ten fine ink drawings illustrate the text. They occupy ten pages in the ebook, close to corresponding prose.

Based on two works of fiction that expose sadist fantasy, this product will please those who like to see bound women tormented by whips.

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