#301328 - The Devil of Nochenwalden Jim Klaw Nutrix
The Devil of Nochenwalden
by JIM
published as Girls Concentration Camp Torture Ordeals
Nutrix Co.
Jersey City, New Jersey
1961
Wholesale Books reprint
ca. 1972
digital replica
Concentration Camp Discipline
by JIM
published as 30 8” x 10” photo prints
by Irving Klaw
New York, New York
1953, 1954
digital replica
In Switzerland, the artist we know as Jim made his living producing technical drawings. The bondage illustrations he did for Mr. Klaw reflect Jim’s industrial orientation.
Settings for his bondage panoramas vary from jungle to medieval castle to contemporary urban environments. Nearly all of Baroness Steel's equipment was metal, some involving welding. Older motifs mix wood, rope and chain. In every scenario, the narrative provides pretext for restraining shapely damsels in complex contraptions.
In mailers he sent to customers in 1954, Mr. Klaw advertised Jim's Concentration Camp Discipline, a set of 30 photo prints priced at $14.00. He described the premise with these words:
This cartoon shows what went on at camps, the various ordeals and discipline meted out by the stern disciplinarian Captain Elsie to flyers (sic) who refused to divulge wanted information about their squadron.
Jim named this work The Devil of Nochenwalden. The narrative text describes the setting as a prisoner of war camp, confining downed British aviatrixes. It's not clear why Mr. Klaw used the words Concentration Camp in his 1953 and 1960 titles.
In this work, mechanical devices contain, constrain, compress and twist Jim's willowy captives. When positioned against rollers, vises, lamps, fans, a swinging steel pendulum and a hydraulic hoist, prisoners of war are urged to divulge military secrets. One sequence involves working in a mine. Usually clad in thigh boots, Captain Elsie gets medieval on some of her British prisoners and many settings look like stone dungeons.
Clamps, cuffs, mittens and ropes immobilize wrists and ankles. Some contrivances involve tightening threaded rods. Gags, wood blocks, head harnesses, partial face masks, metal branks and leather helmets silence prisoners.
Jim gives both his pretty captives and sexy tyrants wasp waists, sometimes enforced by a belt. Occasionally barefoot, his ladies wear an assortment of boots, sandals and pumps with spike heels.
Concentration Camp Discipline
A digital replica presents the content of 30 photo prints. Most have two panels per sheet. When sheets present multiple panels, Jim provides numbers advising narrative sequence.
Each page appears complete, with title at the top and episode number at bottom. The last page of the ebook shows Mr. Klaw's advertisement for this cartoon serial.
Brightness and contrast were adjusted and many specks re-touched. Pictures are bright with smooth edges at full screen.
Girls Concentration Camp Torture Ordeals
Mr. Klaw re-published some of his 1950s 8” x 10” comic serials as Nutrix booklets. As these usually consisted of 64 5” x 7” pages, second iterations never presented a complete set of panels, even when the serials were divided into multiple Nutrix volumes. Many pages showed only fragments of panels and missing details at edges. For example, panel 2 of episode 25 shows four characters, but only two of them appear in the Nutrix booklet.
The photo prints have 64 panels and the booklet has about the same number. But some pages in the Nutrix booklet show but a single figure from a panel that might contain five.
The ebook contains all content of the Nutrix booklet. Jim's art appears in the original sequence. Images with horizontal orientation were rotated to fit screens. Two pages of Wholesale Books advertising were moved to the end of the ebook.
In the ebook, pages were placed to show characters at maximum size. In so doing, some thick black regions were excised and narrative captions were nudged down within their boxes. As a consequence of this pursuit, lettering varies in size from page to page.
Brightness and contrast were adjusted and many specks re-touched. Ebook pages show Jim's skillful ink renderings with clarity and smooth edges.
All new scans.
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