Tijuana bible
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Tijuana bibles were palm-sized erotic comics produced in the United States from the 1920s to the early 1960s. The earliest Tijuana bibles, particularly early "Tillie and Mac" and "Maggie and Jiggs" st
Final page of the Tijuana bible Chris Crusty, drawn by "Mr. Prolific", which borrowed the syndicated comic strip character Chris Crusty created by William Conselman and Charles Plumb for a topper strip which ran above their Ella Cinders
Panel from a Tillie and Mac Tijuana bible strip drawn by "Elmer Zilch"
The Rubber Salesman (c. 1935), drawn in the hand of "Elmer Zilch", showing the "Ornate Border" design
A set of Tijuana bibles drawn by "Mr. Prolific". This set was released in 1936 and usually sold for a quarter each. Nine of the ten comics in the set are shown.
Silk Spectre
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Silk Spectre is the name of two superheroines in the graphic novel limited series Watchmen, published by DC Comics. Created by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, the original Silk Spectre, Sally "Jupiter" J
Tijuana bible
…newspaper strips. After World War II, the quality and the popularity of the Tijuana bible declined. Early in the graphic novel Watchmen, the current Silk Spectre (Laurie Juspeczyk) visits her mother (past Silk Spectre Sally Jupiter) and briefly reads a Tijuana bible featuring her. Sally finds it flattering and…
Laurie Juspeczyk as Silk Spectre on the cover of Before Watchmen: Silk Spectre #1 (June 2012). Art by Jim Lee.