Tom of Finland - Kake 22: Highway Patrol

Tom of Finland - Kake 22: Highway Patrol -Los Angeles CA - Tom of Finland Inc. - [1984] - [Reprint] - [32] pp - Stapled wrappers - 21,5 x 27,5 cm.

Condition: Good - with some wear.

Homo-erotic comic strip in the KAKE series by Finnish artist Tom of Finland (= Touko Laaksonen, 1920-1991). Illustrated in black and white. Reprint (the first edition appeared in 1980). "For Mature Adults Only!"

In this issue Kake is arrested by two burly police officers. In the front 'Tom's Catalog' (with Tom's Men T-shirt) and in the back 'From Tom's Archive'. Cf. Hanson p. 525; Bertolotti p. 175; Van Os p. 176. Original vintage editions, also early reprints, of this series are rare.

¶ Between 1968 and 1986, Tom published 26 episodes of Kake's adventures, comics starring hypermasculine men and wonderful leather gays. By the late 1960s, Tom's "dirty drawings" had become the standard for gay art, and Tom's men a model for the new gay masculinity.