#202298 - Fanni Hall & the Ransom Note Robert Bishop House of Milan 1977

Fanni Hall and the Ransom Note
Bunzie Gets a Surprise
by Robert Bishop
House of Milan Corp.
Los Angeles, California
1977

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House of Milan serialized Fanni Hall comic strips in Knotty magazine. Those eight episodes were collected and published as Fanni Hall, Number 1. They provided source material for our first Fanni Hall ebook (#301368).

Derived from a 48-page booklet, the current offering seems to be a self-contained short story with superb Robert Bishop illustrations on more than 20 pages. Page three announces the title as “Fanni Hall and the Ransom Note by The Bishop” while the cover says Bunzie Gets A Surprise. Bunzie may be a name of endearment for the artist's lovely Fanni, but the word appears nowhere inside.

The daughter of a billionaire gets kidnapped by agents of the Madame. They restrain her with varied bondage devices and use her for their pleasure.

Fanni visits billionaire father and learns about the ransom note, which asks for only $10,000. The modest amount suggests to her that she must be Madame's actual target. Fanni accepts the assignment to rescue Alicia.

To ascertain the captive's location, Fanni visits Chattele, one of Madame's cohorts. Fanni ties her in painful bondage to persuade disclosure.

After Alicia is bound, incarcerated, and violated, Madame explains to her captive that what Alicia experiences as punishment functions as a journey of self-discovery. Madame introduces the teenager to a woman's touch.

With a puff of displaced air [Alicia] felt most piquantly across her groin, the door opened, and the [Madame] walked in. She was alone, and closed the door behind her. A sardonic grin marked her features as she surveyed her youthful property.
“Since it seems you have become too inured to the distress of gags, as penance for your willful tongue, we’ll just have to see what effect pain, et al, will have. You haven’t really learned, yet, have you darling? I’ve been rather remiss, I suppose.”
She ran a crimson-nailed hand lightly up the stretched belly. Ran her tongue around a jutting nipple and kissed it. Almost instantly, the nipple stiffened. She stood inches from her charge. Alicia submerged into the woman’s scent, her warm breath bathing her face. The woman’s hands continued their play, and Alicia’s breath became faster.
“Please don’t do that,” she moaned.
“Do you find it so unpleasant?” The hands continued without abatement. “Your body would seem to be suggesting its whole-hearted approval.”
“Please . . . I’m not a lesbian. I’ve never done it with a woman.”
“Of course you are; all women are switch-hitters, to use the vernacular.”
The woman leaned forward the two inches that separated their faces and kissed Alicia on the lips. It was warm, sweet, incredible. Instantly, with a vehemence that surprised, Alicia returned the kiss, surging forward against the bonds ineffectually.

We opine that Mr. Bishop wrote the breezy story that accompanies his focused illustrations. The first page shows his byline. The prose benefits from a conversational quality that presumes commonality between writer and reader. The narrative observes a fierce interior logic that constructs premises for villainy and rescue.

Mr. Bishop's drawings expose prodigious talent in rendering his feminine ideal and deep knowledge of bondage schemes and utensils. He layers his pretty women on top of character silhouettes over textured or graphic backgrounds. He's fluent in the design of rivets, buckles, straps, rings, gags, blindfolds, and alluring figures. Sometimes his airbrush blows smooth; sometimes grainy.

Not every scene described in the text appears in a picture. Only about half the pictures depict scenes in the story. As both art and prose are about women in distress, the two aspects of the publication complement each other, despite imprecise correlation.

The pictures were optimized on 80 pages, and, as possible, placed near related text. Virtual enlargements of figure features, fetish elements, bondage contraptions and action reduce the need to zoom and scroll. Brightness and contrast were adjusted and shadows reduced.

All new scans. Female nudity.

The ebook contains front and back covers and the publisher's statement. Two pages of advertising are not included in the ebook.

The text was re-set for the ebook. Although a few changes were made to paragraphing, spelling and punctuation, the author's tone and vocabulary are retained. 12,000 words.

A second optimized ebook contains only pictures.

Here, the exotic misadventures of kidnapee Alicia, and her reactions to new experiences — both painful and pleasurable — provide most of the content. The narrative takes us on her sudden, scary expedition through a world of torment and stimulation. Her predicaments, thoughts, feelings and sensations — as a novice in this exotic realm — fill most of the booklet, and serve as impetus for Fanni's participation.

Like Mr. Stanton's Blunder Broad, Fanni Hall often stumbles into traps. This little gem stations her at both ends of the rope.

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Although some parts of pictures are obscured on this page, the ebook shows everything that's in the original.

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