{"id":3686,"date":"2010-06-30T07:17:21","date_gmt":"2010-06-30T15:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=3686"},"modified":"2017-02-19T03:07:06","modified_gmt":"2017-02-19T11:07:06","slug":"further-exploits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=3686","title":{"rendered":"Further Exploits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/secret-identity.net\/\">Craig Yoe's book, <cite>Secret Identity<\/cite><\/a>, revealed that Joe Shuster, the original artist and co-cre&auml;tor of Superman, had during a low point in his life provided illustrations for a sado-masochistic series, <cite>Nights of Horror<\/cite>, and for three one-shot sado-masochistic fantasies, <cite>Rod Rule<\/cite>, <cite>Hollywood Detective<\/cite>, and <cite>Continental<\/cite>.  I am therefore surprised that no one seems to have reported on the artist for <cite>House of Tears<\/cite>, by Harold Kane. <div><a href=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/House_of_Tears_cover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/House_of_Tears_cover.jpg\" width=\"244\" height=\"360\" alt=\"[cover of House of Tears; man on all fours, before woman in dominatrix outfit]\" style=\"border: 0 ; display: block ; margin-top: 1em ; margin-bottom: 1em ; margin-left: auto ; margin-right: auto ;\" \/><\/a> <div style=\"width: 450px ; margin-top: 0 ; margin-bottom: 0 ; margin-left: auto ; margin-right: auto ;\"><a href=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/House_of_Tears_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/House_of_Tears_2_th.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"289\" alt=\"[source image for cover of House of Tears; man on all fours, before woman in dominatrix outfit]\" style=\"border: 0 ; vertical-align: middle ;\" \/><\/a><a href=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/House_of_Tears_3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/House_of_Tears_3_th.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"286\" alt=\"[image of legs of woman in high-heeled boots in foreground, man on all fours in background]\" style=\"border: 0 ; vertical-align: middle ;\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/House_of_Tears_4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/House_of_Tears_4_th.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"281\" alt=\"[image of man kneeling before woman in dominatrix outfit with whip]\" style=\"border: 0 ; vertical-align: middle ;\" \/><\/a><a href=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/House_of_Tears_5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/House_of_Tears_5_th.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"304\" alt=\"[image of hog-tied man]\" style=\"border: 0 ; vertical-align: middle ;\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/House_of_Tears_6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/House_of_Tears_6_th.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"290\" alt=\"[image of woman in dominatrix outfit with whip, straddling woman in heels and skirt on all fours, with buttock exposed]\" style=\"border: 0 ; vertical-align: middle ;\" \/><\/a><a href=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/House_of_Tears_7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/House_of_Tears_7_th.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"290\" alt=\"[image of man gagged and bound in kneeling position]\" style=\"border: 0 ; vertical-align: middle ;\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/House_of_Tears_8.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/House_of_Tears_8_th.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"290\" alt=\"[image of bound and ball-gagged standing woman in lingerie and heels]\" style=\"border: 0 ; vertical-align: middle ;\" \/><\/a><a href=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/House_of_Tears_9.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/House_of_Tears_9_th.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"290\" alt=\"[image of woman in maid's outfit, bound in kneeling position]\" style=\"border: 0 ; vertical-align: middle ;\" \/><\/a><\/div><\/div> I found those illustrations on the <abbr class=\"noshrink\" title=\"World-Wide\">WW<\/abbr>Web this morning.  In some cases, they were creditted to Harold Kane; in others they were not creditted at all.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=(%22harold+kane%22+|+%22house+of+tears%22)+(shuster+|+schuster)\">A search of Google for pages containing both <q>Harold Kane<\/q> or <q>House of Tears<\/q> and <q>Shuster<\/q> or <q>Schuster<\/q><\/a> produced only false positives.<\/p> <p>I don't know whether <cite>House of Tears<\/cite> had further illustrations.  But, in any event, it seems that Shuster's underground <span style=\"font-style: italic ;\">oeuvre<\/span> is larger than previously recognized.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Craig Yoe's book, Secret Identity, revealed that Joe Shuster, the original artist and co-cre&auml;tor of Superman, had during a low point in his life provided illustrations for a sado-masochistic series, Nights of Horror, and for three one-shot sado-masochistic fantasies, Rod Rule, Hollywood Detective, and Continental. 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