These stories are light years beyond the quality of prewar Tijuana bibles (early American pornographic comic parodies, almost exclusively hardcore), much less their sad postwar successors, and, like most kink porn from before the 1960s published in the U.S., is almost exclusively softcore, primarily without nudes, in an attempt to circumvent obscenity statutes.

The work itself was almost shockingly engaging-this bondage pornographer wrote genuinely amusing and entertaining parodies of movie serial action-as well as being incredibly well delineated. This is a truly astounding volume of illicit published material from less than a century ago that barely still exists in its original forms, though partial (often shoddy or pirated) editions of the most popular comics abound, and as such gets an extra star just for being such a great edition of John Willie's art. including 4 previously unpublished photographs of the artist! The biographical introduction has been expanded to include much new information about J.W. Along with the black and white illustrations are an equal number of full-color pages many of which are previously unpublished. Also included in this expanded edition are 36 black and white reproductions of drawings and paintings (circa 1935-50), most from original artwork and all but 2 have never been published before. It contains 368 pages, which includes a wealth of previously unpublished and uncollected work by the artist. This revised edition was published on December 9, 1999, the birthday of `John Willie`, as well as the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of the first edition. It was translated into French, German and Italian, and was also made into a movie, THE PERILS OF GWENDOLINE (1984, directed by Just Jaeckin).

This is the Second Edition (Revised & Enlarged) of a work that was originally published in 1974 (144 pages, cloth) and sold over 26,000 copies in the US alone.

Adventurs of sweet gwendoline