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Red-Hot WONDER WOMAN Parody by Ditko's Roomie, Eric Stanton "Blundie In Blunderland" * Original ERIC STANTON Art * 27 Pages Author: [Original Comic Art] Stanton, Eric Date Published: c. 1990 Description: 27 pages of original art, black and white ink on vellum paper, various sizes from 8¼x11" to 10½x13" (mostly 9x12"). Illustrated by Eric Stanton written by F. Winter. Generally fine to very fine condition, assorted wear, with creasing and minor chips to corners, minor spots and discoloration, and evidence of having been torn out of a pad (adhesive residue, chips and creases along the top edge). One page with a significant chip, one with evidence of scotch tape. These pages, comprising an incomplete story, were originally published in Stantoons #45 (Blundie in Blunderland), 1990. Provenance: From the personal collection of Amber Stanton, daughter of Eric Stanton Note: PBA offered two original Eric Stanton stories consigned by Amber Stanton in our Dec. 2022 Spidey Sale. One story ("The Adventures of Gwendolyn," eight pages, incomplete) sold for $20,000; the other story ("The Adventures of Sweeter Gwen, Part 2," ten pages, complete) sold for $18,750. Ms. Stanton says that the three Eric Stanton lots being offered in the present sale are the very last pieces of her father's art that she owned, except for one special page that will never be sold: "I'm keeping just one last page of my dad's art for myself. It has strong personal significance, as I believe it was influenced by my mother's own artwork, and it will never be offered for sale." Fetish artist Eric Stanton who shared a New York studio with artist Steve Ditko for about decade, seldom turned his attentions to superheroes. But when he did, the results were spectacular. Stanton claimed to have helped Ditko to create Spider-Man, telling Greg Theakston in a 1988 interview that the two artists "worked on storyboards together and I added a few ideas.... I think I added the business about the webs coming out of his hands." It's unsurprising that Stanton was drawn to Wonder Woman, a character that Stanton's biographer Richard Pérez Seves claims "turned him on" due to her fetish-friendly bondage and kink underpinnings. And so, in the 1970s, Stanton created "Blunder Broad," a parody of Wonder Woman, who Wikipedia describes as "an inept superheroine who continually fails in her missions and is invariably tortured by her enemies, who include a lesbian supervillainess called Leopard Lady.... Blunder Broad can be deprived of her super strength when subjected to cunnilingus." Stanton returned to his thinly-veiled Wonder Woman stand-in repeatedly, with a single-minded focus bordering on obsession, eventually producing over 40 separate Blunder Broad comics. Blunder Broad reached her apotheosis in Stanton's epic two-part magnum opus "Blunder Broad Extra: Blundie in Blunderland Parts 1 and 2," published in Stantoons #s 45 and 46 in 1990. Despite the impressive number of Blunder Broad pages that Stanton produced, original Blundie art seldom comes up for sale. The most recent confirmed sale we could find was a single Blunder Broad splash page that fetched $2280 in 2019. A limited edition of ten hardcover catalogues is available, in addition to a few dozen softcovers. Fun reference, great keepsake, fully illustrated, chockablock with obscure facts, gags, bon mots. Softcovers are $40, deluxe hardcovers with dust jackets and limitation plates are $200. These books always go fast so don't delay. To order, contact ivan@pbagalleries.com. Consignments welcome for PBA's Fall 2023 Comic Book sale. Top prices for Pre-Code Horror, Golden Age, Silver Age, original art and ephemera. Find out why PBA is the new fan-fave of funnybook fiends. "This is some of the best commentary I've yet seen on the quality of the content of comic books... Priceless." — R. Crumb. Send inquiries to ivan@pbagalleries.com. Coming soon: The DC Universe Collection, featuring over 40,000 comics, comprising every comic book publis