6 Cartoon Adventure Serials including a previously unpublished 40 page story 3 illustrated letters from the artist Includes a selection of illustrations done for Robert Harrisons magazines (Wink, Titter, Flirt, etc.) in the late 1940s 31 waterc. Learn more (copy & paste): /2018/03/sweeter-gwen-is-back-eric-stantons. Buy a copy of The Adventures of Sweet Gwendoline book by John Willie. Quarto, illustrated boards, green endpapers, no dust jacket as issued. Fourth printing of this hardcover edition, circa 1975. This special edition was reconstructed from archival material, correcting earlier printings and designed to display the risqué humor of Stanton's art. Willie, John Allen Jones (foreword) Harry Benjamin, M.D. Stanton's pencils were inked by Steve Ditko, who also contributed some original art, while the two toyed with the creation of Spider-Man in the spring of 1962.
And yet even with all this slapstick, Stanton's female leads, including the imperious Countess, the pliant Gaga and the innocent Gwen, are as gorgeous as any he's ever drawn, and the fetish wear, bondage play, and femme-on-femme fights are as rousing as ever. Published sources are scarce, but see John Willie, The Adventures of Sweet Gwendoline, New York. Stanton delivers a Mad magazine-like sendup of Willie's original, complete with Will Elder-like funny business. Eric Stanton's personal favorite comic caper was also a loving (if crackpot) homage to John Willie's legendary damsel-in-distress creation, Sweet Gwendoline.
