Sex, Cartoons and Comic Books
By Mike Marino

When it comes to pure sexuality and carnal knowledge in cartoons, it's hard to beat the head or tail of Betty Boop. She has a sexy pouty mouth and south of her border was a land of tempting teasing thighs of thunder with legs that could unleash a libido of lighting thanks to the animators inclusion of the first mini-skirt 30 years ahead of it's time. Not only was she damn near bottomless, but, she also wore lacy garters and was known at times to prance around in a hula dancers grass skirt swaying and moving her undulating grass to the heat of a tropical beat while her coconut bra held the secrets to her cartoon sexual universe. Lets face it, she may have been a cartoon, but, secretly we agreed...she had one hell of a lovely set of coconuts firm and ripe for the picking. Since her debut in 1930, Betty has become an iconic sexual symbol of femininity and female sexual freedom of expression well ahead of Womens Liberation. Her lierated labia was well oiled and well before we learned the abc's of the ERA.

She was a cartoon pinup during WWII where Betty made it clear...V was for Victory, and for Vagina! Her body and face adorn just as many t-shirts, mugs, mousepads and a host of other memorabilia items today as Marilyn Monroe. Betty Boop nostalgia keeps our libido in a constant overdrive. She has been portrayed in print and 'toons as a biker babe, a hula dancer, a chanteusse, and a cowgirl with one sexy cartoon ass that any cowboy would love to cowpoke and mount. Giddy Up Betty! There are even Betty Boop inflatable sex dolls for the ultimate Boop Boop De Boop experience in latex lovemaking.

Betty began her cartoon career and rocketship ride to stardom in 1930 in a cartoon called "Dizzy Dishes" and what a dish she was. She was featured in Max Fleischer's "Talkartoons" and also her own Betty Boop series of animated sensuality.

Before Betty "booped" she barked like a dog. Most animated characterizations of the day were parodies of famous entertainment stars. Betty was patterned after Helen Kane a singer and actress. However, and here it comes, Betty was portrayed as not only Helen Kane, but Helen Kane as a canine with the look of a French poodle with floppy ears! Not the sexiest image on the planet unless you really are a pet owner to the max. Eventually the poodle look disappeared in 1932 and Betty began to get shapely as she began to transform into a cartoon human with breasts, thighs, great behind and those famous floppy poodle ears were magically transformed into massive hoop earrings! Her "fur" became her signature hairdo, her ass was fully formed, legs shapely and eyelashes were as long as Route 66. The distinctive voice was provided by Mae Questel and Boop Boob De Boop became the Betty Battle Cry of the Pubic!

Betty in her original canine form was in heat and in love with her then boyfriend Bimbo the Dog long before Betty herself became the bimbo. Don't ask, it's complicated. In the 1931 cartoon, "Bimbo's Initiation" you have a group of cartoon sadists in a bizarre "fun house" of masturbatory Marquis de Sade fetish that Bimbo stumbles upon by mistake. It's a secret society of sadistic practices and the leader, a mysterious robed figure wants Bimbo to become a member which of course means undergoing strange initiation rites never fully explained but surely it must have hopefully involved a spanking or two for some over the top over the knee animated excitement. Eventually the robed leader, portrayed as a man, removes "his" costume and there instead is Betty Boop in her full Poodle canine form. Bimbo seeing this luscious creature is now hot to trot and ready to hump the first available leg and join the club. Meanwhile all the other members strip down and it's time to send in the Betty Clones! The room is full of Boop Look-a-likes! The real Betty and Bimbo now dance the night away and Bimbo offers Betty his bone as a token of his love. His bone? How Fellini can you get? It's probably the first cartoon inference of a transsexual, but, also of trans-species transformation as well! Betty crossdressing as man/dog becomes tranny dog-girl in love and has sex with a boy dog, but, eventually she becomes a 100% girl from her dog days afternoons. In another cartoon Betty is tormented by a sadistic ring master in a circus with whip and cage! It's a Marquis De Sade command performance all around.

As the 1930's progressed the Fleischer organization made Betty sexier and her femininity was ablaze. This was first exemplified in "Minnie the Moocher" with a wonderful musical assist from Cab Calloway. Her sexual wiles got racier and her breasts became more prominent, and her cleavage was as deep as the Grand Canyon and her tits were to die for, at least in the cartoon kingdom. Cleavage in a cartoon? Unheard of! In her introduction as a hula dancer she is only wearing a grass skirt and is topless underneath a thin lei she is wearing as we all waited for a strong wind to remove the lei and reveal Betty's Boops boobs! I'm still wondering if she would have had nipples. As for her underwear, many characters in her toons were always trying to sneak a peek up her skirt to see a full bush or a bikini wax. Add to her sexuality and the publics pubic fascination with her, the Lolita factor adn you have Hannah Montana Does Dallas. You see, the Betty character was officially always and only 16 years old in cartoon years and could qualify as Roman Polanski's girlfriend.

Betty has remained iconic for decades and is hotter than ever today. Her "film" career heyday was the the 1930's and 1940's but she also had a cameo appearance in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" which launched the cartoon sex career of Jessica Rabbit! Who knows...in the future we could see a film of Jessica Rabbit seducing a 16 year old Betty Boop in an amimated lesbian love affair with one hell of a Boop Boop de Boop climax! If so, I will be first in line for tickets!

Catwoman: Ferocious Feline Femininity by Mike Marino

Catwoman the leather fetish pin-up princess of comic book pulp fiction is best known for having one hell of a sexy slinky figure encased in form fitting pants of lovely leather with a Mardi Gras black mask accenting her face while brandishing a leather domina whip to bring out the best of the beast in her with a purr-fect feline display of sensuous sex appeal and female domination. Was she always a pussycat? Not on your life, in fact, her resume is excitingly risque and frisky for our favorite femme fatale who exudes a scent of danger and feminity in one intoxicating pussy perfect package.

According to her diverse pedigree which can get pretty cat complicated, her dark, brooding and secretive background involves a stint as a jewel thief, a teenaged prostitute and a dominatrix under the mentorship of her predatory pimp who sold her for sex on the street and forced her to role play in domination activities! Early reports have her portrayed as an airline stewardess with amnesia, while another facet of this diamond career has her in an abusive relationship with a husband from hell who she escapes from!

The Catwoman character is the epitome of sexuality and when she made the transition from the comic book pages to the small screen as well as the silver screen to apease our quest for cinematic salivation we were not disappointed. She has been portrayed on television as the campy vamp by Ertha Kitt, Julie Newmar and Lee Merriweather, not to mention her big screen sisters, especially Halle Berry and Michelle Pfieffer who both look good in and out of leather pants.

Catwoman was known as Selina before she made Mr. Blackwells Best Vamp Look List, and was added to the DC Batman series by creator Bob Kane to add the twin appeals of zest and sex. She also lit the fire in Batmans cape as an early love interest probably to kill all those rumors of pedophilia regarding his questionable relationship with Robin the underaged Boy Wonder!) Catwoman rocked the batcave to it's very foundation and became a comic book fave rave with a feline strut so sensual and successful sexually that the Comic Book Code Censors censored her in the 1950's. Remember this was also the McCarthy Era where Commie witch hunts were raging in Washington with false accusations, the Cold War was full tilt boogie and Betty Page was just coming into her own! Catwoman in effect was too hot to handle, but, apparently was one hell of a frisky fondle! She was the cause of male masturbation with a wow and meow replacing in our minds eye the naked tribal women of National Geographics with her hot blooded leatherclad antics.

Bob Kane, Batman's creator, was an avid film fan growing up in the 1930's. He loved the silver screen and one actress in particular left an indelible impression on this impressionable youth. Kane fell head over heels, doing cartwheels in love with Jean Harlow the blonde bombshell of the 1930's. She to him personified the perfect woman. Sexy, independent, direct, and yes, once again...sexy! He decided Batman needed a love interest and by adding this heroine of perfect body proportions, the series would also attract a female audience to the comic books. In time she gained cult status of iconic proportions around the world and appeals to both genders. Hints of her bi-sexuality have abounded for years and that appeals to the gender bender fan base as well. I'm still waiting for Catwoman Does Batgirl with a a three speed Atomic Thruster.

Originally she was intended to be a love interest for Batman, however it morphed into a love-hate relationship oas the villianesse in her began to emerge from her cocoon. She made her first appearance in 1940 in Batman Comics #1, not a bad starting pole position in super hero publishing. She was known merely as "Cat" and works as a second story cat burglar when she is captured by Batman his lets his pants do the thinking for him and he lets her escape as his heart beats fast and he has a growing bat bulge in his pants for this goddess with stolen goods who manages to steal his heart, and she's not even encased in ass hugging leather yet! She is also captured and allowed to escape in Batman #2...seems to be a trend here. By Batman #3 she begins to appear wearing a fur mask, and escapes again...the plot thickens and the leather look begins to take shape...a shapely shape indeed with protruding breasts north of her equator and a wonderland of geography south of her border to be explored especially her frontal "cave"...he is Batman afterall!

In the original creation of her pussy persona, she was Selina, an airline stewardess who was knocked on the head during an airplane crash in the early versions and suffered from amnesia. Later, my comic book writing hero, Frank Miller who did the Sin City series in the 1980's revised her background and gave it a Frank Miller testesterone tune up in 1987 in his series Batman: Year One! Here she works for a pimp who beats her if she doesn't work the streets hard enough, and also forces her to wear leather and perform as a dominatrix for paying customers with a submissive nature. Eventually Selina's little sister, Maggie is also kidnapped by her pimp and forced into a life of prosititution as well. Bizarre enough yet? Wait there's more to it than that...Selina's sister is also a nun! Selina now starts to study martial arts and eventually kills their mutual pimp and both escape captivity.

Next up on the streets, Selina befriends a young runaway, Holly who idolizes Selina and is too young to be on the streets. Selina saves her and has her move in with her and Maggie ala Xena and Gabriella and a third party. If you've read the Sin City series or saw the movie you can create your own Cat visuals and insert whip here with a rough tough three-some to die for! Meanwhile back to our story, in an effort to make ends meet, Selina dons her leather costume she wore as a dominatrix and instead of pulling tricks begins a life of second story cat burglaries to make ends meet. Batman catches her and reforms her to a certain degree and she figures, if there is a Bat, why not a Cat? Taking it one step further in the late 80's in yet another incarnation, she is divorced from an abusive husband, and ends up marrying Bruce Wayne and gives birth to a daughter Helena (The Huntress) On other landmark appearance was in a Superman related comic, called Supermans Girlfriend: Lois Lane in 1966, which is probably where the lesbian relationship rumors began, and by the 1970's she actually commits her first and only murder!

It's no wonder she is ranked in the Top Ten of the 100 Comic Book Villians of All Time! Her comic books and guest appearances are highly collectible just as she is highly combustible sexually. On TV we got our first three dimensional introduction to this delicious vixen portrayed by three sexy vamps clad in leather ready to camp it up, and now on the silver screen, the leather goddesses have dominated the Batman series with sex appeal of a royal nature. She has a hint of bi-sexuality, lesbian tendencies and engages in feline animal role play similar to pony play, and has earned a living as a prostitute and a whip wielding dominatrix. Who the hell could ask for more? I love the smell of leather pants in the morning!!

Wonder Woman: Bikini Waxed Superhero!

Give a superhero babe a gorgeous set of super legs, a voluptuous expansive chest that is ready to explode in a volcanic eruption of heaving cleavage, then encase her ample shapely body in a skimpy costume that shows off her erection causing bikini wax look south of her border, and you have the makings of the eighth sexual wonder of the super world. Wonder Woman! Iconic beauty of the comic book kingdom who leaped from the comic book pages to the television screen in a single bound. She was portrayed by Lynda Carter as the super woman personification if ever there was one complete and replete with super powers, combat skills that would make a Navy Seal look like a wimp and a mastery of martial arts that Mr. Miyagi would be proud of. Not to mention a knock down drag out sexy rear-end that could only be described as Mounds of Joy and breasts that could double as two of the finest pinnacles of the Colorado Rockies, perfect for climbing to plant your flag on her mighty twin peaks.

Wonder Woman is the alter ego of Diana Prince, who as an Amazon warrior princess is better known as Princess Diana of Themyscira, which is probably located just west of the Isle of Lesbos near the town of Sappho, where Amazon on Amazon action is as popular a sporting event as Monday Night Football is to armchair quarterbacks. Her background in reality is based in true life characters involved in a polyamorous sexual threesome affair that includes her comic book creator, William Marston. Her character development is based on Marstons two switch hitter live-in girl friends, and because of this influence Wonder Woman became a sexy man-eater with super powers packing a pair of powerful bear trap thighs that can pack more thunder than Zeus! .

Marston by the way is the inventor of the polygraph, the ever popular lie detector, which became the forefunner of Wonder Womans Lasso of Truth! Marston read comic books but felt they were lacking for changing times. He decided he wanted to create a superhero who used guile and brains over brawn. His live-in girlfriends were highly liberated for the times, the late 1930's and early 1940's and were also quite domineering of him which he seemed to enjoy as many men do. They told him in no uncertain terms to go ahead and do it, as it sounded like a good idea, but he was ordered by them to make the super hero a female...or else! He complied obidiently with their wishes or demands depending on how you want to look at it. Marston sold the idea to All Star Comics and Wonder Woman came out of the three-some closet in 1941 as "Suprema" in the original story, but, it was changed at the last minute to "Wonder Woman" by the publisher. Marston in describing his new character wrote "Wonder Woman is the new woman who I believe should rule the world!" How appropriate that a submissive male should create a domineering super heroine that has stood the test of time and still rules with a iron fist in the world of iconic heroines! In a 1943 article he wrote he elaborated even further on her character. "Not even girls want to be girls so long as our feminine archetype lacks force, strength, and power. Girls now are not wanting to be to be tender, submissive, peace-loving as women are. The obvious remedy is to create a domineering feminine character with all the strength of Superman plus all the allure of a good and beautiful woman."

When Wonder Woman first appeared during WWII, she was one sexy weapon of democracy fighting Nazi's and fifth columnists on the battlefield abroad and on the homefront. Hitler had more to fear then fear itself or even the Normandy Invasion. Wonder Woman was on the way packing super powers, a "lasso of truth" and a tiara projectile that could penetrate a German bunker deeper than a Wonder Woman dildo.. She was one hell of a vaginal V-2 rocket ready to blitzkrieg Berlin after a night of heavy drinking with the Hermann Goering Cabaret Crowd. In addition to fighting for democracy and later a platform of peace, she eventually fought evil homefront super villains out to do her in. In time s the times they were a changin' became an iconic symbol of womens liberation as a feminist warrior in the hymen heavy protest 1960's. Who says a feminist can't be sexy? Look at Gloria Steinham, one time Playboy Bunny escaped from Hugh Hefners Hutch and in the process had many a male drooling behind her sexy tail voting in favor of the ERA! Whatever it takes in love, war and politics, eh?

Wonder Womans costume alone was a lightshow of image and color and sexual innuendo. Her top was a brilliant hot red color with breasts encased in gold breastplates highlighting her two sizable pots of gold hidden beneath her rainbow of color. Her hotpants were a brilliant blue with a tempting field of stars that put the male libido in planetary orbit as he longed to go where no mere mortal man had gone before...except by invitation only, and then only as an Amazon captive!

When she first appeared in 1942 she wore a red top, white belt and star studded cullotes with red and gold go-go boots in an appeal to American patriotism. Eventually when the war was won, she sported skin tight shorts with her back exposed. Then in the dreaded Disco age of the 1970's she started wearing polyester jumpsuits, but eventually got back into that highly desireable bikini waxed swimsuit look. But by 1987 she was wearing a black leather biker babe outfit until it was changed once again to what we see today, a bit of color change but basically back to the sexy roots as body armor for the body of amour!

Now for the cream rising to the top. Lynda Carter. Words cannot describe how she has morphed into the absolute personification perfection of the character. She is and always will be Wonder Woman. She reigned supreme on the small screen from the 1975 - 1979 romancing the disco stone age with a sexuality loaded with sensuality and class. When she did her amazing spin action to transform into the Wonder Woman of our dreams we had a hard time keeping our hands out of our pants. There have also been animated series of WW and a new pilot for a TV show was shot in 2012 but nipped in the bud due to poor script development.

On a personal note, I worked with a young guy in radio in the midwest when I was Program Director of a radio station, he was the mid-day personality who wanted to BE Wonder Woman and in fact thought he was! I was going on vacation from the radio station to visit friends in San Francisco, when he asked me to buy him a Wonder Woman costume there if I could find one. Yes, I found one, and yes, I bought it for him, mainly as a joke, but when he showed up for his mid-day radio shift one afternoon spinning around in the very same costume...we all had the laugh of our lives. Not because of his affectation...but mainly....he ain't no Lynda Carter by a long shot! He did try to lasso me but missed! Now if that would have been Lynda Carter at the other end of the rope, I would have been lassoed and offered her a bikini wax myself!