Cruel Duchess of the Bastille

Irving Klaw and Eric Stanton brought their distinctive fetish-art sensibilities to the Nutrix Corporation for this two-issue series from 1962, a short-lived but vivid entry in the publisher's bondage-themed line. Cruel Duchess of the Bastille presents a stern, aristocratic dominatrix ruling over a prison setting, with Stanton's clean, exaggerated linework and Klaw's scripts delivering a straightforward power-fantasy premise. Though it only ran for two issues, this comic stands as a notable artifact of early-1960s underground-adjacent publishing, capturing a specific niche of adult fantasy before the rise of the direct market.