Early life and career Stanton was born and raised in
Brooklyn, New York, the son of an Italian father and a Russian mother. Though his personal preference was for drawing lady wrestling and fighting women comics, he was commissioned to create
bondage fantasy chapter serials by Irving Klaw, who also sold pin-ups and movie stills from his shop on 212 E. 14th Street. This marked the beginning of his fetish art career. Stanton then attended the
Cartoonists and Illustrators School in the early 1950s, studying under comics artist
Jerry Robinson and others. One classmate was future
Spider-Man and
Dr. Strange co-creator Steve Ditko. Another was
Gene Bilbrew, whom he introduced to Klaw. From 1958 to 1968, Stanton shared a
Manhattan studio at 43rd Street and Eighth Avenue with Ditko. For many years, the two collaborated on fetish comics. Ditko biographer Blake Bell, without citing sources, said, "At one time in history, Ditko denied ever touching Stanton's work, even though Stanton himself said they would each dabble in each other's art; mainly spot-inking", In a 1988 interview with
Greg Theakston, Stanton recalled that although his contribution to Spider-Man was "almost nil", he and Ditko had "worked on storyboards together and I added a few ideas.... I think I added the business about the webs coming out of his hands". According to the fetish art historian and Stanton biographer Richard Pérez Seves, Stanton may have purposely underplayed his role and contribution to Spider-Man to maintain his friendship with Ditko. Even more startling, evidence exists that Stanton also made uncredited contributions to Dr. Strange.
Later career ) Starting in the late 1960s, Stanton supported himself by self-publishing and distributing his work to a quasi-underground network of subscribers and patrons. His offset printed
Stantoons comic-book series, which began in 1982, continued to his death in 1999 and featured many of his best-known "transgressive" concepts, including the
superheroine Blunder Broad, and the
Amazon-like Princkazons. for use in a great number of
BDSM adventures. A parody of
Wonder Woman, Blunder Broad is an inept
superheroine who continually fails in her missions and is invariably tortured by her enemies, who include a lesbian supervillainess called Leopard Lady, Pussycat Galore, or Cheetah, and her male sidekick Count Dastardly. Blunder Broad can be deprived of her super strength when subjected to
cunnilingus.
Princkazons With "Lady Princker", Stanton and Shaltis (as well as Alan Throne and Winter) created the Princkazons storyline in which women around the world grew oversized female penises, or "princks". These women also grew taller and stronger than men and began dominating and humiliating the men in public, including
facesitting,
coprophagia, and anal and oral rape. ==Legacy==