If we want to include newspaper comics, there were a few spankings in Hal Foster's Prince Valiant. On one occasion, Valiant spanked Aleta, his wife. On another, Aleta spanked their son, Arn. (Arn was only a few months old at the time. Much too young to be spanked, IMHO.) When Arn was in his late preteens, or possibly early teens, there was a sequence in which he visited another country. In one panel, the queen is shown leading her misbehaving daughter, the princess, into another room. In one hand, the queen is holding a hairbrush. it is obvious that the princess, a girl of about Arn's age, is about to have her royal behind spanked. in the Li'l Abner strip, Pansy Yokum, head of the Yokum family, and leader of the Dogpatch community, once spanked her son, Li'l Abner. He was at least 18 at the time. Pansy often took her husband, Lucifer, over her knee. To be fair, he was a lot more immature and more prone to get into mischief than his son was. He still needed LOTS of spankings. In one strip, Li'l Abner spanked his son, Honest Abe. Honest Abe would misbehave from time to time, as kids are prone to do, but he was smarter than his grandfather, so he rarely got caught. |