by John | Jun 8, 2021 | Uncategorized
I’m dedicating this one to Bob Cumbow—my good friend, my great lawyer and my Alfred Hitchcock guru extraordinaire!
Original Vintage Art & Text

Art by Art Saaf & Mike Peppe from the story “Kiss and Run” in NEW ROMANCES #14, 1952.
Transcript:
Scene: Outside. Woman seems alarmed as she watches a man walk away. They are outside and we can see the sky in the background. In the foreground, a pigeon is flying. It is the only bird we see here.
CAPTION: Warren had turned his back on her for the last time!
CAPTION: She had a purse full of bird seed…
CAPTION: …ready to dump on his head.
CAPTION: She hoped the pigeons were famished.
1952 Art: Saaf & Mike Peppe
Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Writer: Tony Isabella
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↓ TranscriptScene: Outside. Woman seems alarmed as she watches a man walk away. They are outside and we can see the sky in the background. In the foreground, a pigeon is flying. It is the only bird we see here.
CAPTION: Warren had turned his back on her for the last time!
CAPTION: She had a purse full of bird seed...
CAPTION: ...ready to dump on his head.
CAPTION: She hoped the pigeons were famished.
1952 Art: Saaf & Mike Peppe
Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Writer: Tony Isabella
DJP.lk601
KissAndRun7.7
by John | Jun 6, 2021 | Uncategorized
by John | Jun 3, 2021 | Uncategorized
Original Vintage Art & Text

Art by Mike Sekowsky from the story “I Need Your Love” in New Romances #16, 1953.
Transcript:
SCENE: Woman talking to a man.
WOMAN: I love that we have so much in common! You’re fabulously rich! And I’m fabulous and want to be rich!
1953 Art: Mike Sekowsky
Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
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↓ TranscriptSCENE: Woman talking to a man.
WOMAN: I love that we have so much in common! You’re fabulously rich! And I’m fabulous and want to be rich!
1953 Art: Mike Sekowsky
Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
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New Romance 16.8_5
by John | Jun 1, 2021 | Uncategorized
Dialogue by Tony (always-ready-for-date-night) Isabella. Read about Tony’s approach to writing Last Kiss here.
Color & special effects by Diego Jourdan Pereira. In addition to working as an artist for a zillion comic book companies, Diego has a thriving career as an author of trivia and puzzle books.
Original Vintage Art & Text

Art by Alex Blum & Matt Baker from the Hooks Devlin story in Fight Comics #39, Aug. 1945. Published by Fiction House.
Transcript:
Scene: Woman in a slinky, low-cut dress is holding a gun and looking intently into a somewhat foggy background.
CAPTION: Katrina spent hours getting ready. New hairstyle. Perfect makeup. Sexy dress. Shaved legs and pits. He never showed. That’s when she vowed…He’d never forget Date Night again!
1945 Art: Alex Blum & Matt Baker Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Writer: Tony Isabella
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↓ TranscriptScene: Woman in a slinky, low-cut dress is holding a gun and looking intently into a somewhat foggy background.
CAPTION: Katrina spent hours getting ready. New hairstyle. Perfect makeup. Sexy dress. Shaved legs and pits. He never showed. That’s when she vowed...He’d never forget Date Night again!
1945 Art: Alex Blum & Matt Baker Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Writer: Tony Isabella
DJP.lk593
Fight-Comics-#39_26_1-4.jpg