Straitjacketed Women in Other Media

MISCELLANEOUS MEDIA

RECORD COVERS

The cover of The Drama According to Bernadette Cooper (MCA10058) features Cooper in a black leather SJ.
Madcats, an obscure late-'70s hard rock band, had a woman with tigress makeup in an older Posey SJ (metal buckles and grommets, straps in front) on the cover of their eponymously titled LP, with disembodied muscular arms holding her.
The inside flyer for Kate Bush's "Rubberband Girl" CD-single has a pic of her SJed, taken from the music video (see below).
And of course, there's Pat Benatar on Get Nervous, which is still in print. Head shots from the same photo session also appeared on the sleeves of the American 45s for "Little Too Late" and "Shadows of the Night", the labels of a 12-inch single of "Shadows of the Night" pressed on blue vinyl, and the cover of the video collection Hit Videos, which contains the video for the "Anxiety (Get Nervous)".

Karen DiBiasse, vocalist for Girl on Top, is seen in a fake SJ on the cover of Sue is Sane (STR).
The female rapper Bo$$ (see her listing in Music Videos) is seen in an SJ on the cover of her 1993 album Born Gangstaz. The video is back up on YouTube.
The cover for the CD "Sadness Will Prevail" by Today is the Day shows what could be an SJed woman, huddled in a corner.
On the cover for "Something's Gotta Give" by Roosevelt Franklin, a young woman sees herself SJed in a mirror (looks like a Posey).
The cover for "Dysfunctional" by the group Sal looks like it has an SJ on the cover, but it's too small to determine if it's real or not.
The cover for the Greater Than B CD "Songs For Therapy" shows an SJed woman lying on a quilt.

MUSIC VIDEOS

Duran Duran's video for "Come Undone" featured a woman thrown underwater in chains and a full-length quasi-SJ made out of shiny fabric, with closed sleeves and ties at the ends; she lip-syncs the female backup vocals and escapes from the restraints by the video's end. Like so many videos nowadays, this is available on YouTube.
Bo$$, a female rapper, made a video for the song "Deeper", which featured a young black woman with short hair, tied in a Posey SJ, and locked in a padded cell in a state prison. The end of the video showed the SJ on the bottom of the cell, with blood covering the walls; the woman is nowhere to be seen. A hi-res video file is available at Boss' AOL Music site.
One of the members of Skunk Anansie, a tall athletic black woman, appears in a rubber SJ in the video for "Charity."
Lari White, a country-&-western singer, made a video for "Wild At Heart" which took place in a mental ward, with White in an SJ. Outraged cries from mental health advocates quickly resulted in its removal from the airwaves. Amazingly enough, it's available on Yahoo! Music.
The video for "Therapy" by the Infectious Grooves (with Ozzy Osbourne on guest vocals) had two split-second shots of a crying blonde in an SJ. It's available on YouTube and at AOL.
The video for Quiet Riot's "Cum On Feel The Noize" is set in an asylum, and you can occasionally see an SJed female in the frame.
Pat Benatar spends some time in a Posey SJ in the video for "Anxiety (Get Nervous)." Here's the video on YouTube, while it lasts (Thanks to highwing).
I've heard that there's a SJed woman in the video "Falling in Love (Is Hard On The Knees)" by Aerosmith. I haven't seen the entire video, but I did see a clip on an awards show that showed lead singer Steven Tyler in an SJ. I've also read that an SJ was used in their video for "Crazy."
In the video "Toxygene" by the electronica group The Orb, a blonde is seen in a Posey SJ for about 30 seconds. It's available on YouTube.
In the video "Crazy Love" by R&B singer Rome (featuring Chill), inmates at the "Loony Bin" perform dance sequences in brown (suede) SJs. Quite surreal. Someone's got it up on YouTube.
Kate Bush spends some time in a canvas SJ in the video for "Rubberband Girl," which is available on the "Whole Story '94" video CD and the video "The Line, The Cross, and The Curve." Bush is placed into a lace-up SJ by one of the male dancers in the video, but they spend their time waving their arms around, and she never gets properly tied. The video's been uploaded to YouTube.
In the Alice Cooper video "How You Gonna See Me Now?", Cooper is released from an asylum and returns to his old home, only to find that his family is being SJed and loaded in an ambulance. The three family members, two of whom are female, are wearing regulation canvas SJs and the familiar Alice Cooper eye makeup. (thanks to Rodrigo)
In the video for "Violently Happy," Bjork bounces around in a small room, wearing a gown with very long sleeves. Her scenes are i ntercut with scenes of other people in the same room, acting strangely. This is a rather ephemeral entry, but I enjoy playing the nerdish completist. :-) Anyway, you can check it out on YouTube.
Speaking of ephemera, Tori Amos is seen in an SJ with untied arms in her video for "Cornflake Girl."
The British soul singer Ultra Nate wears a silver SJ-dress in the video for "Free." You can examine it on YouTube.
In the video "Ava Adore" by The Smashing Pumpkins, there is a scene in a mental hospital with an SJed woman, at the beginning. Check it out on YouTube.
The video for the dance song "I Can't Help Myself" features Lucid in an SJ; you can see it on YouTube.
One version of the Suicidal Tendencies video Institutionalized contains shots of the protagonists' parents SJed, as well as an SJ fashion show (?!?):

Aaaaaaaaand it's now up on YouTube!
The N'Sync video "I Drive Myself Crazy" ends with shots of two of the band's girlfriends in loosely tied Posey SJs. The video, of course, is available on YouTube.
Some people think Kelis is wearing a leather SJ in her video "Caught Out There," and others think she's just wearing a regular jacket, with her arms crossed. You can see for yourself at YouTube.
The video for "Wrack My Brain" by Ringo Starr shows him exploring a dank basement and discovering the Frankenstein monster and two SJed women, one of whom was his wife Barbara Bach. More details can be found at the Beatles Diary site, and the video is back on YouTube.
The video for "Something Beautiful" by the nu-metal band Cauterize is a homage to the classic Twilight Zone episode "Terror at 20,000 Feet", with an attractive brunette filling in for William Shatner, and the band members taking turns as the monster on the wing. At the end, the Posey-jacketed woman is loaded into an ambulance:

It's now available on YouTube.
The video for "Damn Sexy" by Posh seems to take place in a mental hospital, with the female singer SJed for a good part of the clip, which can be downloaded at the Posh - Power Pop site, and is also available on YouTube.
The video for "Crazy Chick" by teen opera singer Charlotte Church contains a few shots of her in a magician's SJ (it appears to have that leather strip down the middle of the front). A portion of the video is available "exclusively" from Video-C, but it appears the entire video can be downloaded from the T4 site, as well as YouTube.
What is it with classical singers and SJs these days? At the end of the video for "My Reason" by Keedie, the singer is struggling in a grey SJ with several chains attached. You can see the video on YouTube.
Missy Elliot ends up in a black leather SJ in a padded cell for much of the video for "Teary Eyed". The clip is up on YouTube.
The video for The Falling Kind by Veda features an untied SJ.
The video for Life on The Sun's song "Kings Of Fall" has some brief SJ shots.
There's some nice SJ shots in the video "Anodyne" by Ripped, as well as in the making-of featurette (thanks to Renfield). There's another behind-the-scenes shot on Flickr.
There's a brief shot of an SJed woman struggling in a chair at the end of "Rock You To Hell" by Grim Reaper. This video is mocked in episode 109 ("Bad Dog"; original air date 02/09/1995) of the old Beavis and Butthead show.
The full video, which contains another brief SJ shot that wasn't in B&B, is up for viewing on YouTube (thanks, ARNie).
Mexican singer Ana Barbara is seen in a weak-looking SJ in the video for "Loca".
There are some decent SJ shots in the video for "Elisa" by Vidoll.
The video for "Tight Beatz" by Alien Entertainment featuring Furious Steez takes place in a mental ward, where several patients magically materialize in a padded cell and start dancing to the song. However, the attendents come and SJ them and place them back in their individual cells. You can see the video on YouTube.
The video for Zoey's cover of Bjork's "Venus as a Boy" has some excellent shots of the Japanese singer struggling in a red-collared Posey SJ with roller-buckle straps.
Most of the video for "The Phrase That Pays" by The Academy Is... shows the (male) lead singer in an SJ, but at the very end, we see the actress portraying a nurse in an SJ, straps in front with no struggling.
The video for Embas' song "Realidad Elusiva contains some nice SJ shots.
The video for "Black Secrets" by Million Dollar Baby has some shots of the attractive blonde singer in an SJ with leather straps in the front, and a lot of good struggling.
The video for "Cane Hill" (a real-life abandoned mental institution) by Finding Pedro shows the lead singer in a smock-type SJ, and looks like it was shot in blurry, Blair-Witch-Project-o-vision.
The video for "Coma" by Smith Island follows the hallucinations of a woman in a coma at a hospital, and shows her in what appears to be a smock-style SJ.
At the end of the video for "Headstrong" by Liisi Koikson, the singer tries to escape from a mental hospital, but is wrestled into an SJ by two orderlies and led back to her room.
There are some nice shots of a woman struggling in a magician's SJ in the video for "The Falling Kind" by Vedera.
In the video for "Crazy" by Sheeck featuring Suga Free, one woman is seen struggling in a low-cut SJ-style top.
The lead singer for Psycho Nation dances in a custom SJ in the video "Living Dead".
The members of the girl group Her Sanity make all-too-brief appearances in SJs at the beginning and end of the video for "Xclusive".
The video for "Bonzaion" by Loco Locass has a scene with SJed men and women dangling in a room.
The video for Kenny Texeira's "Straightjacket Blues" shows him in a fake SJ throughout, being taunted by a nurse and two orderlies, but the nurse falls for him and ends up SJed at the end. Controversial Mexican singer Gloria Trevi appears in a smock-style SJ in the performance video for "Dr. Psiquiatra" (which appears on the La Historia DVD), and an actress is shown in a similar Sj in the video for "Psicofonia"..
The new video for "Outta My Head" by Ashlee Simpson ends with her tied in a fake SJ and flying around a padded cell. There's a pic of her at Just Jared, and of course the entire video is available at Yahoo! Music and YouTube. YouTube also has a promo video with more SJ footage.
In her video "vglyad iznutri", Russian singer Linda spends most of her time in a long smock-style SJ.
NEW! The video for "Damage" by Fit For Rivals features singer Renee Phoenix in a padded cell, wearing a green-collared Posey with roller buckles and metal grommets on the straps. The entire video (with lots of great shots of Phoenix) is available on Vimeo. There's a few behind-the-scene photos at Blank Image Arts and similar video footage on YouTube.

ADVERTISEMENTS

Benetton ran an ad featuring a group of people in weak-looking SJs (they look more like art smocks).
In Susan Faludi's book Backlash, she mentions an advert by Seruchi Jeans that has a woman in an SJ. Has anybody seen this?
There was an advert for the MAD TV comedy show with the cast in various Posey SJs. I've seen this in TV GUIDE and in ROLLING STONE.
DuBouchett, a manufacturer of hard liquors, ran an ad campaign for the "DuBouchett Asylum," the materials of which included a picture of a woman in an SJ and rubber skirt. This was devised by the ad agency red7e, and you can read the story of that and other "hot ad agencies" here. There is also a very small picture of the ad at BeverageNet.
Moore Business Forms, Inc., ran an ad in 1952 depicting a hapless secretary SJed by office inefficiency.
Star 94, an Atlanta radio station, showed an SJed female DJ in a recent billboard ad.
eWire has an article on Dumb Ads, which includes a small pic of a woman in a leather SJ.
The Australian hair care company Fudge managed to get a lot of people angry when they ran the "Headcase" and "Schizophrenia" combo ads, featuring an SJed woman.
What is it with these Australians? I read that Kia Ora Phone Cards pissed people off with an ad showing a "woman chatting on the phone, when several men in white coats barged in, clothed her in a straitjacket and bundled her screaming and kicking into the back of a large white van." Apparently, she was using a rival company's service which cost more, and only a crazy person would do that . . .
A magazine advert for the reality show Bridezillas showed a woman in a magician's SJ and wedding dress, with the tag line "Engaged. Enraged. About to be committed!" There was another small pic at the Woman's Entertainment Network site.

An Australian TV ad for Pringles potato chips briefly shows an SJed woman. You can see it on YouTube.

MAGAZINES

The July 1997 issue of HUSTLER contains a lesbian pictoral called "Lust Ward." It takes place in a padded cell, as the SJed women (both in Poseys) help each other out of the restraints before having fun. There are only 2 small pics of the women in SJs, and they're not on very tightly.
Issue 24 of the Gothic scene magazine PROPAGANDA contains two pictures of the lead singer of The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black in a black leather SJ (made by Noir Leather).
The January 5, 1999 issue of The National Enquirer printed a couple of photos of the SJed Kate Winslet from a 1994 British production of "What the Butler Saw."
The December 1982 issue of the music magazine Circus showed a picture of Pat Benatar from the "Get Nervous" photo session with the caption "Perfectly wrapped." The photo shows her with her back to the camera.
The August 1999 issue of Rap Pages shows Missy Elliot in a yellow- collared Posey.
On the last page of the December 2001 issue of GQ (with Will Smith on the cover), there's a humor piece called "The 2001 Overrated List." The 13th entry is "The Newsworthiness of Mariah [Carey]'s Mental State," which is illustrated by a cute Drew Friedman drawing.
Female wrestler Mickie James appeared in the August 2006 issue of WWE Magazine wearing a magician's SJ. There are outtakes available at The New Extreme Gallery (thanks to Rusty).

CARTOONS

The cartoon The Unicorn in the Garden (1953) was based on the classic James Thurber story. Highwing found a link for the entire cartoon on YouTube.
In the 1947 Popeye cartoon The Royal Four-Flusher, Olive Oyl ends up in an SJ. More info and caps are available at Pastor Steve's Popeye Page.

THEATER

Joe Orton's What the Butler Saw is set in a psychiatrist's office, and the climax features two women in SJs. CurtainUp.com has a review of a production featuring Chloe Sevigny in a jacket. Someone put up a brief dress rehearsal clip of another production on YouTube Here's a scan from a production in Buffalo:

UPDATE! There are more pictures of various productions at Jersey Girls Sing, Sean Graney's portfolio, the British Theatre Guide
Pat Cook's one-act play The Whole Shebang features a woman so traumatized by an anarchic production of Hamlet that she needs to wear an SJ.
The experimental play The Watcher in the Rain by Maxwell Steer centers "on Carl Jung's treatment of James Joyce's schizophrenic daughter." Some scenes have her in a SJ.
In the recent Metropolitan Opera production of The Rake's Progress, the scene in Bedlam features the chorus singing while tied in SJs.
I have heard of a Toronto production of Schoenberg's opera Erwartung which had the female lead performing in an SJ.
A publicity photo for the 1993 production of R. Murray Schafer's Requiem for the Party Girl featured the female lead Ariadne in an SJ with loose sleeves. The Patria Design Project contains more info.
Tom Eagan's comedy And I Was King? deals with the attempts of two disinherited brothers to have their sister committed to an asylum. I have not read the play, but it sounds promising.
The Omelet Murder Case by Tim Kelley retells Hamlet as a hard-boiled detective pulp novel. One description of the play mentions that "Ophelia has traded her evening gown for a straitjacket." Again, I haven't read this play.
The Mineola Twins by Paula Vogel follows twin sisters from the 50s through the 80s as they "embody the changing roles of women." A picture on pg. 81 of the March 1, 1999 issue of Time shows Swoozie Kurtz wearing an SJ with the sleeves untied.
This description of a production of Sally Clark's play Moo! mentions that a "real" SJ was used, but not who wore it.
The Palais Garnier production of the ballet Ghiselle featured ballerinas in SJs.
The end of the play Townies by Emma Hyde and Mark Bennett shows the protagonists, a young couple, SJed in a police station.
The description of Sara Felder's play June Bride, which centers on a "traditional Jewish lesbian wedding," mentions an SJ escape, among other magic acts. You can also see her SJed with another man.
Russell Smith and Joseph Lanstroth collaborated on an operetta based on The Unicorn in the Garden.
The performance piece Time in the Eye of the Needle contains "a woman in a straight jacket tormented by her inner turmoil."
A review of a recent production of Euripides' Andromaque contained this sentence: "There were titters and outright laughs when Marianne Basler, as the maddened Hermione, was placed in a very belle-epoque straitjacket."
A recent post to a theatre newsgroup reveals that "some genius [Anne Bogart, according to another poster] once staged Nellie Forbush singing 'I'm in love I'm in love I'm in love...' in a straitjacket."
In the Gary Socol play The Shadow of Greatness, a world-famous playright invites three fans to his apartment. He takes advantage of one fan's admiration by asking her to wear an SJ. Luther Butler's IBM Compatible is set in the "University of Louisville Teaching Hospital for the Criminally Insane," and there seems to be a lot of forcible applying of SJs going on in the play.
This review of Randall Peter Cook's Souther Discomfort mentions an SJed woman. Sounds plenty strange, though.
The Marilyn Monroe gloss All That Loving Stuff features Eva Gray in an SJ.
James Joyce Is Dead and So Is Paris: The Lucia Joyce Cabaret by Katheryn Osenlund centers on James Joyce's schizo daughter, and is sent in a mental institution. At one point, she dances while SJed.
Kiki Kendrick's one-woman play Insane Jane features her as an SJed mental patient at her biannual recommittal hearing, with the audience as the doctors' panel.
Other than this message on the Carpe Jugulum message board, I don't know much about this play Elisabeth.
Billy Collins' Boozical The Musical begins with "[a] woman in a straightjacket and face gear a la Hannibal Lector, high heels and sexy stockings beneath" singing a Madonna song.
Smoke, Mirrors & the Art of Escapology from the Talking Birds experimental theatre group deals with two escapologists; one of whom, Houdini's widow, "attempts to recreate his failed final (fictional) escape act - a straight-jacketed jump through a hole in the ice" (courtesy of the Digital Performance Archive).
One of the short plays in Joe D'Aquino's Live From New York features an SJed woman, according to the review from Talkin' Broadway.
The comedic play Shakespeare As You'd Still Like Him by Scott Grossberg features Romeo tying Juliet in an SJ and auditioning actresses for the role. A more detailed summary is found at Starlight Productions.
The Arthur Laurent/Stephen Sondheim musical Anyone Can Whistle features a scene in which escapes inmates from the local asylum are caught and SJed.
Paula Mann's Silent Second Night, inspired by the life of Houdini, features her 6-person dance company in SJs.
A Twin Cities-area produciton of Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida featured the character of Cassandra in an SJ.
The new musical Twist features an SJed dancer in the "Ballet of the Ridiculous".
In the Stanton Wood play Nosferatu: The Morning Of My Death (adapted from the classic silent horror film), the character of Mina ends up SJed in an insane asylum due to her sleepwalking. OffOffOnline has a review with a pic of the actress in what looks like an SJ (hard to tell from the viewpoint).
In Sam Forman's "Krankenhaus Blues", a woman and two men wait for death in a Nazi-era hospital. The woman, a former actress, is intially seen in an SJ.
In the recent New York New Music Ensemble performance of Eight Songs for a Mad King by Peter Maxwell Davies, soprano Haleh Abghari was brought on stage SJed and gagged before her performance.
The play Mrs. Packard by Emily Mann is based on the real-life ordeals of Elizabeth Packard, who was committed to an insane asylum in the 1860s for being too liberal for her Calvinist husband. In an article for the Washington Post, it's revealed that in one scene, the actress playing Packard is SJed and dunked in a tub on water.
The dance performance La Vie by the Montreal-based group Les 7 Doughts de la Main featured a female contortionist escaping from an SJ.
In Matei Vi?niec's play The History of Communism (as Told for the Mentally Ill), the actors enter wearing SJs before starting the play. You can find a rather unsympathetic review at The Independent.
NEW! Arnold Schoenberg's one-act opera Erwartung ("Expectation") centers on an insane woman who kills her lover and is sent to an asylum. The actress in this performance began and ended the opera in an SJ.
NEW! The play Fallen deals with the so-called "bad girls" of the Old Testament, such as Eve, Jezebel, and Delilah. In a recent production at the University of Alaska at Anchorage, Queen Vashti was depicted as trapped in an SJ, which she escaped from. You can see a series of pictures of this play at the Anchorage Daily News.
NEW! In the play 'Dentity Crisis by Christopher Durang, Jane is trying to recover from a nervous breakdown, but her even more insane mother isn't helping much, especially as claims to have invented cheese. There's a picture of interest at the Occam's Razor Theatre Company.

PINBALL MACHINES

One of the special features on the pinball game Bally's Theatre of Magic features a female assistant trying to escape from an SJ.

VIDEO GAMES

The Free Radical Design game Second Sight takes place in a "medical facility", and appears to have a sequence with a woman in a modified SJ, as a capture from Kikizo's review suggests.
The new Fear Factor: Unleashed video game had a straitjacket escape stunt, according to the Worth Playing gaming site.
NEW! According to GamesFAQs, episode 4 of the video game Sakura Taisen 3 contains a scene in a prison, showing the character Lobelia in a straitjacket.

GREETING CARDS

The greeting card company California Dreamer produced several cards featuring women in SJs. One card has an attractive woman SJed (with the straps i n front) with a party hat on; the caption reads "Go Crazy - It's Your 21st Birthday!"

ARTWORKS

The art piece "Escape" by Barbara Barry consists of an elaborately beaded and embroidered SJ.
Ayana Friedman's "One Size Fits All" is an SJ with a lace collar.
The print "Different For Girls" by David Cutter shows an SJed women contemplating herself in a mirror. Prints were recently auctioned on eBay.
This essay on the phtographic work of Anne Arden McDonald mentions some of her self-portraits in which she is SJed Thanks to Ms. McDonald, we can see "Untitled Self Portrait #36.
The short video De-Feat is Sara Greenberger's M.F.A. thesis at the Columbia School of the Arts, and features her getting into a Posey SJ and strapping herself in.

ACTION FIGURES

The Toybiz figure Typhoid Mary from the 1998 series "The Vault" comes with a bolero-length SJ.

RADIO PROGRAMS (just for the sake of being ridiculously completist ;-)

Before the TV show and movie, The Avengers was a radio program. The fourth episode of "Not to Be Sneezed At" featured Miss Peel forced into an SJ. The description is very nice; too bad this was never adapted for the TV show.

COMIC BOOKS

AC Comics
FemForce #71 : One small pic of DarkStar in a modified (arms at sides, no external sleeves) SJ, not bad.
FemForce Out Of The Asylum #1 : GREAT full-page pic of DarkStar in a tight SJ.
FemForce #146 features the villian The Botanist SJed in prison.

America's Comic Group (Avalon Communications, 2800 Halpern, St-Laurent, Quebec, Canada, H7R 1V4)
My Romantic Adventures? #1 is a reprint of 3 romance stories from the '50s. The cover story is a classic: "Love of a Lunatic", about a young woman who pushes away the man she loves because she thinks herself mad (her father spent years in an asylum, and her bitter, hateful mother keeps needling her about her "nervous nature"). One day she snaps, and is sent packing to the state asylum. There are two panels of her in an SJ, and a third of her in an SJ while being given hydrotherapy.

Anarchy Press
The first issue of Necromancer contains several pictures of the female protagonist in an SJ, including the cover. The entire 4-issue run is archived at the offical site (click on the publisher's name above); there are pics at pages 10-11 and 29-32.

Arcana
The trade paperback ANT: Days Like These tells the back story of Hannah Washington, an African-American woman who copes with her brutal upbringing by escaping into a fantasy world in which she is Ant, superhero. There's a nice two-page spread showing Hannah in a canvas SJ with leather-reinforced sleeves, with a couple more pics on the next page.

Comics House Publications
The cover for Boy Comics #24 (1945) shows a young SJed woman struggling with an attendant in a padded cell. The first story in the comic deals with a wealthy heiress who has a nervous breakdown when she discovers that her gold-digging husband never got his medical degree. She ends up in the same sanitarium that he's working at (under an assumed name), and ends up dead! You can get the entire comic from Golden Age Comics (requires free registration), but here are the most pertinent scans:

Comico
Justice Machine #27 (March 1989) This issue introdcues Ms. Liberty, an escape artist at a circus. The cover shows her triumphantly holding chains and an SJ. In the story, she poses as a civilian who is "volunteered" by a couple of circus clowns to don a SJ and be shot out of a cannon; she escapes the SJ as she flies through the air. The SJ is rather nondescript, though I liked the wrist straps.

Cosmic
Issue 2 of Death Race 2000 shows an assassin zipped into a mummy-like "custody coat."

CrossGen Comics
The first issue (June 2002) of the horror series Route 666 shows an SJed blonde; you can see it at The Comic Shop. I've seen the first 3 issues; there's no bondage in any of them.

Dark Horse Comics
Issue 3 (July 1993) of the 4-issue miniseries The Dirty Pair : Sim Hell contains three pages of one of the title characters trapped in a simulated "comfy room!" (padded cell) with the antagonist and tied in an unusual SJ : a two-tone (black/white) jacket, with a smiley-face on the high collar, "i'm ok" written across the chest, and buckles with "OK" on top of each. (The antagonist continually mouths "touchy-feeley" psychobabble throughout this scene.) There's also a crotch panel connected to both front and back with "OK" buckles. Issue 2 has a one-page preview of this scene. The comic was recently reprinted in color with a new cover, and you can see the scans at The Distressed Crimefighteress Page.
There's a preview of Buffy the Vampire Slayer #57 (street date May 28 2003) with a nice SJ drawing at the Dark Horse site. Unfortunately, the issue is a total bust bondage-wise; they didn't even use the art on the cover! Issue 58 continues the "mentalhospital" arc, but there's no bondage there, either. We finally hit paydirt with issue 59, with a few pages of a not-very-detailed SJ.

Issue #3 of the 4-part series Tales of Ordinary Madness had a small picture of an SJed woman.

Adam Warren's Empowered series of graphic novels centers upon a superheroine who has a knack for getting into embarrasing situations, including plenty of bondage. In one story of the third book of the series, Empowered gets captured by pirates working for Advanced Restraint Research and is forced to model some of their equipment, including their full-metal "Strait-Jakkit". At the end of the story, fellow superheroine Sister Spooky is also seen in the contraption. You can find scans of the comic at E-Hentai.

DC Comics
Legionairres #37 had a woman restrained in an unusual-looking SJ: a behind-the-back model (with a loop in the small of the back for her arms to fit thru), fastening in front.
There was a Christmas comic of Batman Adventures where Harley Quinn is seen at the end in an SJ from an odd and unsatisfactory angle.
The hardcover collection Shazam From the 40s To The 70s has a story where a fellow superheroine is captured and taken away in an SJ. There are only a few obstructed pics of this predicament, where it appears the SJ is a lace-up,arms-behind-the-back model. The comic book the story is reprinted from is Mary Marvel, Vol. 2, Issue 8, December 1946.
There are a couple of pics of an SJed woman in New Titans issue 105 (Late December 1993). I earlier reported in this space that the superheroine Koraind'r (aka Starfire) ends up SJed in an issue; I believe I'm mistaken on that count (though I'd be more than happy to be proven wrong).
The splash page for The Flash #330 has an extremely nice picture of a redhead SJed and tied to a bed in a small padded cell; there are several more pics spread over the next few pages. Here's some scans from Michael F.:

The final page of the story in X-Force #44 has the heroine Siryn (named so for her piercing scream) SJed and gagged (with what looks like a polka-dotted surgical mask) and carted off to a mental hospital. There is only one medium-sized pic, and it's not very good.
Catwoman #60 contains the last part of a three-part story, in which the title character deliberately ODs on Scarecrow's fear serum. The first several pages has Catwoman tied in a nice behind-the-back SJ; the sleeves are attached to straps criss-crossing in front and sewn to the shoulders. There are also two waist straps and two crotch straps. In all, an excellent deal.
The cover of Justice League of America #81 (1970) has nothing to do with the story inside, but shows several second-tier heroes, including Black Canary, SJed in a jail cell, as Superman explains "I had to do this -- they've gone INSANE!!"
Wonder Woman #305 and #306 (volume 42, July/August 1983) contains a 2-part side story called "Straitjacket!"/"It's...Madness!" featuring the Huntress. As the story begins, she's being carted off to the Arkham Sanitorium by Dr. Tarr and Professor Fether (I know, I know...). She's tied in a white SJ, arms behind back, and dosed with a hallucinogen just before the inmates in the violent ward break out. She knocks a few out (they're mostly after the two doctors) before one of the inmates unties her (Tarr and Fether are paid by the mob to kidnap people). The artwork is no better than exceptable, and there is little detail on the SJ, but you can see scans at The Distressed Crimefighteress Page.
Issue 33 (August 1989) of the "modern age" Wonder Woman (August 1989) features a pic of the Cheeta in an SJ; you can investigate at the Amazon Archives.
Issue 26 (1989) of Doom Patrol has several pics of an SJed Miss Quiz. Readers interested in the storyline can check this fan page.
The second issue of the six-issue miniseries Rose and Thorn featured the title character (a victim of multiple personality disorder) in a mental facility, placed in "full body compliance restraint" (SJ, blanket, and thick leather straps) after gruesomely assaulting another patient. We don't see the SJ, but the straps are nice, and the cover shows her in a sort of SJ-style restraint. The cover shows her in a kind of SJ (no arm sleeves are shown).
Zatanna is seen in SJs in the first two issues (May and June 2007) of the JLA miniseries Black Baptism. ARNie! sent me these scans:

ARNie! sent me this scan from an unknown issue of Teen Titans:

In Batman #680 ( ), containing part 5 of "Batman R.I.P.", the Joker is keeping Batman's current girlfriend SJed in a padded cell. She's also seen ballgagged and tied to a wheelchair on one page. Here are some scans, courtesy of ARNie!:

At the end of issue 43 (May 2008) of The Batman Strikes, Harley Quinn is seen SJed in Arkham Aslyum:

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In issue 15 (2005) of Teen Titans Go!, the Kwiz Kid is tired of his girlfriend Kitten's crush on Robin, so he challenges the Boy Wonder to follow his clues to his secret hideout, where he has Kitten SJed and chained upside down:

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Eros Comix
Sweeter Gwen #1: Comic book by Eric Stanton. The title character is kidnapped by some unscrupulous characters, wanting a treasure map they think she has. Some good drawings of her in a tight SJ.
Franco Saudelli's The Blonde: "Double Cross" #3 and "Phoebus III" #1 both have several good SJ pics, and the very last panel of "Bondage Palace" #5 has an OK SJ pic.
Issue 7 of Sabina, Mistress of Escapes contains several pages of the titular character being tied into and escaping from an open-breasted SJ.
The cover of the sixth issue of the Japanese comic Voice of Submission features an open-breasted SJ. ARNie, who sent the pic, tells me that the issue itself doesn't feature the SJ, but it might have been seen earlier in the comic's run.
The cover of Housewives At Play #5 shows a woman in an open-breasted SJ, but there's no bondage inside, or in #4 either. There is a King-Sized Special issue which reportedly features SJ pics as well, according to the description at Overseas Comics. The entirety of Issue 5 is available at ImageFap.

Fleetway/Egmont
There are some SJ scans from the sci-fi weekly comic 2000 A.D. (best known as the source of "Judge Dredd") at Grimbor's site. He recently uploaded more scans dealing with Candida de Torquemada.

IDW Publishing
Issue 24 of the comic Angel was published with two variant covers, showing the character Druscilla in an SJ. You can see previews at Whedon.info.

Image Publishing
The first two issues of Ragmop have "comic strip"-type drawings of a woman in an SJ (with front-buckling crotch strap); issue #2 has her on the cover.
One of the protagonists in the series Ship of Fools is Atalanta, who is dressed in an untied SJ and never goes anywhere without her trusty chainsaw.
The first issue (published Dec. 2001) of the 6-issue miniseries Radix features an SJ panel. The second issue has a few more pics, and issue 3 has one final pic before she's rescued. You can find more info about the comic at Horizon Comics.

IDW Publishing
I�ve been told that the first issue of the 5-issue miniseries Spike: Asylum (based on the anti-hero from Buffy the Vampire Slayer) contains some female SJ pics.

Innovation Publishing (3622 Jacob St., Wheeling WV 26003)
ssue 2 of the Child's Play series had some OK SJ drawings.

Kitchen Sink Comix
Issue 2 of the women-cartoonist compilation Twisted Sisters has a cover depicting a fashion show, where the runway models are wearing SJs over their couture. The art is rather angular.
In the 9-part series Heart of Empire, the character Diana is seen in an SJ.

Last Gasp of San Francisco
NEW! The graphic novel Nympho's Revenge by Bernard Joubert and Studio Benedetti contains two pages showing a straitjacketed woman in a mental hospital. You can see the scans at E-Hentai (pages 19 and 20). The novel was originally published in the French magazine "BD Adult".

London Night Studios
Ultimate Strike #1 has three pages of the title character in a nicely detailed SJ and leg restraints (scans courtesy of Michael F.):

Razor: Cry No More is a one-shot detailing the origin of Razor. As a young girl, she is sent to an institution in a catatonic state, after witnessing the violent deaths of her parents. There is one nice full-page pic of her in an SJ. A limited-edition alternate version of the comic has a front cover of Razor in an SJ.
Razor Vol.2 #1 is an "all-ages" version of this; with a smaller pic of the young Razor in an SJ.

Marvel Comics
Issue 27 of Generation X has Jubilee tied in a SJ-suit (green with yellow straps and elbow/knee pads) for several panels. A later issue also has pics of her in this predicament, but the art in that issue makes her look 3 years old.
According to the Marvel Database, issue 24 (Feb. 1997) of Generation X shows Emma Frost SJed.
A Wolverine one-shot, Rahne of Terra, has several pictures of the titular character, a not-strikingly-attractive woman with a red buzzcut, in an SJ. So-so. You can find scans at JB Bond's site.
Amazing Adventures #8 (Sept. 1971) : The Black Widow is tied in a sort of pinstriped SJ by her nemesis, who magically fashioned it out of plywood boards, for several panels. Not bad.
In Ka-Zar The Savage #22 (c. 1984), Shanna the She-Devil, distraught over her husband's (the title character) apparent death, goes berserk after learning that the woman she believes killed Ka-Zar also killed their beloved sabre-toothed tiger. She winds up SJed in Bellvue, but Spiderman breaks her out.
There is a blonde in a nice SJ on the cover of DareDevil issue 277 (February 1990); there is no SJ bondage within, but there are scenes where the woman imagines herself tied up and chained to a chair.
In Spiderman Unlimited #1, Shriek is seen in an SJ for one-third of a page (and is later freed by Carnage in this first issue of the "Maximum Carnage" saga); not bad, but don't pay too much.
The cover of Sensational She-Hulk #20 shows the title character in a "modified SJ" (looks more like a partial mummy-wrap to me) in "Dorkham Asylum." I've been told she's in a similar position inside the comic, but I haven't seen it yet.
The first issue of the 1986 miniseries Elektra : Assassin involves the heroine's stay in an asylum. There is only one SJ pic.
Elektra #12 (September 2002) has an excellent cover pic and the story shows the title character SJed and in heavy ankle shackles for almost the entire issue; recommended.
According to this script treatment, Spidergirl #41 had an SJ scene.
The first issue of the Typhoid Mary miniseries (a DareDevil offshoot) had the title villain in an SJ. I'm not sure, but I think these scans from ARNie! are from this comic:

According to The Crimson's Cowl, Marianne Rodgers ended up in an SJ in at least one issue of Iron Man.
Spider-Girl #41 (February 2002) contains some SJ pics, as revealed by Spiderfan.
NEW! In Amazing Spider-Man issue 226 (March 1982), the Black Cat fools Spidey into thinking she's insane, so he has her sent to a mental hospital, which is much easier to escape from than a prison. She manhandles a nurse into an SJ before she leaves:

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Renegade Comics
Ms. Tree #27 (March 1985) : "Pronounced Normal" Ms. Tree goes undercover at a private mental hospital to investigate a patient claims that a popular politician murdered a young woman. Two of the politicians' henchmen SJ and gag Tree for a few panels. The pics aren't bad; she's seen escaping from the jacket. The front cover has a very nice picture of her as well.

Rip-Off Press (Box 4686, Auburn CA 95604) (catalog $1)
Magical Nymphini #5 has a blonde in an SJ on the cover; no B&D inside, though. This comic is also available through Eros Comix.

Ross Cochran, Publisher (Box 469, West Plains MO 65775)
Issue 2 of the reprinted Tales from the Crypt contains "Mute Witness to Murder" (see the television page ), which has some very good SJ drawings.
Issue 6 of Crime SuspenStories has a story about a woman who murders her rich husband, and convinces his psychiatrist brother that she's insane. It has a very good SJ pic.

Ruvanti
I believe this is the name of the publisher of the strange Belgian comic Die Slaapkamerfilosofen, which seems to be about a young woman inmate of a mental hospital staffed by ugly, misshapen monsters. According to P. A., who provided the pics, the storyline expounds a Sadean, anti-church philosophy. If anyone has more info on how to acquire this, please contact me.

Sirius Comics
Issue 12 of Dogwitch features the main character Violet (an outcast witch) SJed in a padded cell in a flashback. The issue dealt with her accidental murder of her sister. Issue 16 contains some more flashbacks, including an electroshock scene.

Unknown
An Italian comic called Erinni showed a black woman SJed in a padded cell.
Several pages from volume 4 of the manga Death Note showed a female character SJed, strapped to a stretcher and blindfolded. (scans taken from the Zwangjacken Yahoo! group; thanks to "eggsnhamrgreen"!)

French artist Georges Pichard illustrated a series of graphic novels about the sexual adventures of a carefree woman, Paulette. In the third volume, Paulette loses a massive amount of money at the casino, and a group of men decide to have her committed for some reason (I don't know French, and the Babelfish translation was too vague). Two orderlies tie her in a white sack with her arms behind her and cart her off. There's also an electroshock scene before she escapes. The scans are available at E-Hentai.

Verotik Publishing
Sunglasses After Dark #1: In this comic series based on Nancy Collin's novel, the female vampire protagonist is hauled into a private mental hospital in an SJ (straps in front). Unfortunately, the art is very angular and abstract; YMMV.

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