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TOM OF FINLAND (1920-1991)
Jack in the Jungle. Issues 1, 2 and 3, each featuring 20 illustrations without text. Octavo, illustrated wrappers featuring unsigned Tom of Finland artwork, minimal wear, two with price inked in front wrapper. Ringsted, Denmark: D.F.T. /Bellatrix Publications, circa 1970s.
These elaborate jungle rape and bondage fantasies put the "graphic" into the graphic novel. The final issue ends with a rescue by a lion who then fellates the protagonist. The inside rear wrappers each have an advertisement for issues 1 through 7 of the artist's well-known work Kake (launched in 1968). Laid into Issue 1 is a pencil sketch inspired by plate #11.
