Sensational fictional treatments have persisted, as in Vivian Crockett's "Messalina, the wickedest woman in Rome" (1924), Alfred Schirokauer's "Messalina – Die Frau des Kaisers" (Caesar's wife, 1928), Marise Querlin's "Messaline, impératrice du feu" (The fiery empress, 1955), Jack Oleck's "Messalina: a novel of imperial Rome" (1959) and Siegfried Obermeier's "Messalina, die lasterhafte Kaiserin" (The empress without principle, 2002). Oleck's novel went through many editions and was later joined by Kevin Matthews' "The Pagan Empress" (1964). Both have since been included under the genre "toga porn". They are rivalled by Italian and French adult comics, sometimes of epic proportions, such as the 59 episodes devoted to Messalina in the Italian Venus of Rome series (1967–74). More recent examples include Jean-Yves Mitton's four-part series in France (2011–13) and Thomas Mosdi's "Messaline" in the Succubus series (#4, 2014), in which "a woman without taboos or scruples throws light on pitiless ancient Rome".