Curtains for ‘hormonally challenged’ Monkhouse comic

A racy comic book created by a "hormonally challenged" teenage Bob Monkhouse has been hidden from public view behind a curtain in a new exhibition because it is deemed too sexually explicit.

The edition of Oh Boy! dates from 1949 and shows the young Monkhouse’s superhero creation Tornado battling to save a half-naked woman from a race of slimy-headed aliens called the Kharucha who bear a passing resemblance to giant penises.

It features in a sexually explicit section of a British Library show entitled Comics Unmasked: Art and Anarchy in the UK, and comes complete with a parental guidance warning for under-16s.