Lot of Eight Tijuana bibles full of steamy situations set at the 1939 World's Fair, with Trylon and Perisphere imagery on all of the covers, innuendo-laden titles ("She Ate a World's Fair Hot Dog - And Loved It!"), and insightful documentation of the quaint courtship rituals of the day ("You should always take your hat off when you suck a girl's pussy!"). Generally Good to VG condition.

If these prehistoric porn-zines are to be believed, Depression-era Americans were obsessed with blow jobs and face-sitting. Who knew grandpa was such a rascal? Anyway, carnivals and fairs have always been associated with loose public morals and tawdry behavior in the popular imagination, so it's no wonder the 1939 World's Fair spawned its own subgenre of smut.

"It's usually hard to locate, precisely, the date that a Tijuana Bible was done. The subjects are often generic or based on a comics strip that ran for decades. The work of this cartoonist... offers no such problem: there are references to New York City, and many of the booklets are directly inspired by activities at the New York World's Fair of 1939-40.... [The cartoonist's work] is sprightly and charming, with the touch of a graphic poet, and the lovemaking is always great fun, however kinky." – Bob Adelman, Tijuana Bibles: Art and Wit in America's Forbidden Funnies, 1930s-1950s. Simon and Schuster: 1997: p. 68.

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