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GENE BILBREW REVEALED: The Unsung Legacy of a Fetish Art Pioneer: 1 (African American Artists)

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EXOTIQUE is thoughtfully prepared and edited for those whose outlook on life is sound and hopeful: for those who find enjoyment in the bizarre and the unusual both in action and in attire. Why must we all be conformists… follow the crowd? Are we not able to think for ourselves, act as we feel and dress as we desire? This is an unbeatable combination and it IS within our reach. STANTON’S DAUGHTER Amber wrote about her father’s contribution to Ditko’s creation of Spider-Man in an article, “A Tangled Web,” originally published in The Creativity of Steve Ditko (2012). She remembered watching with the family the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade on tv when she was nine years old. As a giant balloon of Spider-Man appeared on the screen, her father exclaimed: "Would you believe that— I never would have thought," she quotes her father saying with amusement. His text is accompanied throughout by lots and lots of illustrations, many in color, and Seves gives the histories of several of Stanton’s serials and tells their stories. The book is virtually an extensively annotated bibliography of Stanton’s life work. But it’s more than that. It’s also a detailed biography, a sketchy history of “the bizarre,” and an exhibition of Stanton’s ladies. Reproduction throughout is high quality. Over the years, Stanton would produce work for several merchants of fetish art: Edward Mishkin, who ran a store near Times Square (in those days, the neighborhood of sexploitation with dozens of stores selling girlie magazines, photographs, movies, and smut); Leonard Burtman, publisher and merchandiser; Max Stone, publisher of fighting female serials; and Stanley Malkin, also a Times Square entrepreneur, who would hire Stanton, putting him on salary, to do covers for his magazines—Stanton’s longest salaried situation as a fetish artist, 1963-68. Malkin also furnished and paid all the expenses for a small apartment for Stanton.

Panty Raiders' begins with three college boys conducting a raid on the ‘Alpha Beta Gamma' sorority house while the girls are at a game. The girls return and discover the boys. The sorority girls and their housemother, Mrs. Jones, decide to handle the matter themselves. The boys agree to submit rather than be reported to the Dean and face dismissal from school. They must report to the sorority every afternoon after their classes and act as ‘maids' until eight at night. Pointing to the Kirby sketch, Ditko might have disparaged the web gun Kirby’s character was brandishing: “That idea is old.” Wrote Amber: “My father contributed to the costume, the idea of the web shooting out of Spider-Man's wrist, and the movement which he made with his hands to release the web. ... I still remember my father's beautiful, strong, broad hands as he showed me the movement that makes Spider-Man's web release from his wrist. It was just like my dad to come up with something like that. If you knew my father it would make sense that he had a hand in Spider-Man.” In fact, while Stanton usually denied having influenced Ditko’s conception of Spider-Man—“Steve doesn’t like me to talk about him,” he told Theakston, “my contribution to Spider-Man was almost nil”— he sometimes admitted that the web-shooter idea was his.Their friendship,” she added, “was centered around creating art. Each of them contributed to the other's art as part of the friendship between two artists. While each was the driving force behind his own work, there was significant overlap. Steve contributed to the erotic stories my father worked on and my father contributed to Spider-Man and probably other stories. Neither one of them ever expected any recognition or money from the other.”

Maybe it shoots from his wrist,” Stanton might have said, demonstrating a maneuver with his hand and fingers. While Bilbrew gave his women distinctly female haircuts including beehives and bouffants, his men usually had either Elvis-style pompadour haircuts or were completely bald. Bilbrew’s lecherous bald men, many dwarfish in stature, often had monstrous, sadistic expressions. By 1910, sob sister was in common use to describe any woman reporter and was sometimes used to describe women novelists such as Fanny Hurst. Linderman, Jim. "A Long-Lost Artist of the 1950s Sexual Underground," Hyperallergic (January 5, 2015).While his career waned with the coming of relaxed censorship laws of the 1960s, his substance abuse worsened in the early 1970s. a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Pérez Seves, Richard (2019). GENE BILBREW REVEALED: The Unsung Legacy of a Fetish Art Pioneer. New York: Fethistory. ISBN 978-1072487548.

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