The Tijuana Bibles

Tijuana Bibles Porn Comic Book 

The lewd comic books affectionately called the Tijuana Bibles are collector items. No one ever said that dirty jokes, and stories with sexual relevance would not hold the attention of men dearly.

Its virtuous name-sake, the wild and sinful Tijuana, is testament to the fact that Tijuana is duly suited to have the rank as the 2nd greatest red light district in the world, save Amsterdam,"bar none".  

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The Tijuana Bibles were pornographic comic books that were published from the 1920s to the early 1960s.  They were X-rated obscene parodies of popular newspaper comic strips including Barney Google, Dagwood and Blondie, Dick Tracy, Little Orphan Annie, Archie, Superman, Spiderman, Disney, and other comic strip themes. Some were stories that included characters based on movie stars taking pokes at Mae West, Clark Gable, and Joan Crawford. 

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Disney Parody

The stories were a dark side of humor often including popular dirty jokes illustrated in comic styled art. The content depicted graphic sexual encounters incorporating the characters from cartoons, and Hollywood actors, without consent, violating copyright and libel laws.  The writers, artists and publishers, were anonymous as the publications were illegal. 

The bibles featured exaggerated tabloid sex scandals that were popular involving Hollywood Movie Stars which used a likeness of those stars with their names hardly altered. In 1939 the Tijuana Bibles obscenely lampooned Mrs. Wallis Simpson and her husband the Duke of Windsor who abdicated the throne choosing not be the King of England in order to marry a divorced woman. Al Capone, and Machine Gun Kelly were featured in a series of bibles, as were sports heroes like Jack Dempsey and Joe Louis. 

Mae West - a Regular 
on the Tijuana Bibles

The bibles were printed in a series of ten which were printed at once on large paper and cut, collated, folded and stapled.  They were mostly eight pages printed mostly in black and white, and later in color.  By design the porno like comic books were formatted as pocket sized allowing the easy concealment from prying eyes.  There was a great demand among young men for the Tijuana Bibles which saw a new series of ten bibles being published every three or four months.

The name Tijuana Bibles was first noted in Southern California in the 40s, as myth would have it, it was conceived that the bibles were printed south of the border in Tijuana ( well known for its sex trade and x-rated off color entertainment ) and smuggled into the U.S.A. 

The 2nd half of the provocative name "bibles" was jokingly a parody much like the content and themes that the publications thrived on.  Prior to that the bibles were entitled with phony names like the London Press, La France Publishing, and Tabasco Publishing Co. in London, Paris, and Havana. 

Tijuana Bibles

The Tijuana Bibles were sold for 25 cents under the counter at bars, garages, tobacco shops, barber shops, and burlesque houses.  They were truly the very first underground comic books printed by entrepreneurs that also printed pornographic playing cards.

Tijuana Bibles 
Popeye Parody

Disney Parody - Tijuana Bibles

Recently the Tijuana Bibles were re-printed - organized into collections edited by Michael Dowers. "The collections of those racy, raunchy cartoon strips from the early days of comics are available on Amazon. Also known as "eight pagers," these bawdy tales more than made up for what they lacked in length with tons of up-front sex action and outrageous humor. 

They are packed with some of your favorite cartoon strips and cartoon characters from the pages of the Sunday Funnies first featured over 70 years ago, from Dick Tracy to Joe Palooka to many other very popular characters we all know and love. Nothing is sacred in these bluntly pornographic satires. They may have come out of the Prohibition Era, but there are certainly no inhibitions in these saucy tales."

Tijuana Bibles Edited by Michael Dowers - available on Amazon